Helsington, Westmorland Family History Guide

Helsington is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Westmorland, created in 1728 from a chapelry in Kendal Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Sizergh Fell Side and Brigsteer.

Alternative names:

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1813
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1813

Nonconformists include: Roman Catholic

Adjacent Parishes

• Underbarrow
• Kendal
• Levens
• Crosscrake
• Natland
• Crosthwaite

Parish History

Helsington

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

HELSINGTON, a chapelry in Kendal parish, Westmoreland; near the river Kent, 3 miles SW of Oxenholme r. station, and 3¾ SSW of Kendal. Post town, Kendal. Real property, £3, 899. Pop., 302. Houses, 52.

Sizergh Hall is here, and will be noticed in the article SIZERGH. A new mansion was recently built. The manor belongs to the Howards. There are gunpowder mills.

The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Carlisle. Value, £125. Patron, the Vicar of Kendal. The church is ancient; and there is a national school.

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

Sizergh Fell Side

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

SIZERGH-FELL-SIDE, a hamlet in Heversham parish, Westmoreland; 3½ miles S by W of Kendal. S. Hall is the seat of the Stricklands; was originally a baronial fortalice; retains some portion of its old strong towers, conjoined with modern additions; presents a castellated, irregular, picturesque appearance; contains a room said to have been once occupied by Queen Catherine Parr; and stands in extensive well-wooded grounds.

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

Brigsteer

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BRIGSTEER, a hamlet in the townships of Levens and Helsington, Westmoreland; 3½ miles SSW of Kendal.

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 St. Catherine’s Church Crook, All Saints Church Underbarrow, St. John’s Church Helsington

Census returns for Helsington, 1841-1891

Bishop’s transcripts for Helsington, 1813-1886

Bishop’s transcripts for Heversham, 1718-1914

Bishop’s transcripts for Kendal, 1721-1845

Parish register transcripts, 1601-1812 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Heversham (Westmoreland)

Parish registers for Helsington, 1813-1907

Parish registers for Kendal, 1558-1907

Parish register printouts of Helsington, Westmoreland, England, christenings, 1813-1875

Maps

OS Grid Reference: SD4787789578 (all-numeric format: 347877 489578)

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: Kendal
• Poor Law Union: Kendal
• Hundred: Kendal
• Province: York