Barbon, Westmorland Family History Guide

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Barbon is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Westmorland, created in 1738 from a chapelry in Kirkby Lonsdale Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Beckfoot.

Alternative names:

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1813
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1813

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BARBON, a chapelry in Kirkby-Lonsdale parish, Westmoreland; on the river Lune and the Ingleton railway, under Casterton fell, 3 miles NNE of Kirkby-Lonsdale. It has a station on the railway, and includes the hamlet of Beckfoot. Its Post Town is Kirkby-Lonsdale, under Burton-in-Kendal. Acres, 4,204. Real property, £2,568. Pop., 364. Houses, 60. The property is divided among a few. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Carlisle. Value, £80. Patron, the Vicar of K.-L.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Records

FamilySearch

The memorial inscriptions of Holy Trinity, Casterton, St. Bartholomew’s Barbon, St. Peter’s Mansergh

Census returns for Barbon, 1841-1891

Bishop’s transcripts for Barbon, 1813-1870

Bishop’s transcripts for Kirkby-Lonsdale, 1676-1874

Parish registers for Barbon, 1813-1909

Parish register printouts of Barbon, Westmoreland, England ; christenings, 1813-1870

Westmorland Historical Directories

Maps

OS Grid Reference: SD6303080307 (all-numeric format: 363031 480308)

Vision of Britain historical maps OS maps

Ordnance Survey OS maps

National Library of Scotland OS maps

Administration

  • County: Westmorland
  • Civil Registration District: Kendal
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Commissary of the Archdeaconry of Richmond Western Deaneries – Kendal
  • Diocese: Chester
  • Rural Deanery: Kirkby Lonsdale
  • Poor Law Union: Kendal
  • Hundred: Lonsdale Ward
  • Province: York