Holme, Westmorland Family History Guide
Holme is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Westmorland, created in 1843 from Burton in Kendal Ancient Parish.
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Parish registers begin:
Parish registers: 1842
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1856
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
HOLME, a township-chapelry in Burton-in-Kendal parish, Westmoreland; on the Lancaster canal, and on the Lancaster and Carlisle railway, 1½ mile N of Burton. It has a station, jointly with Burton, on the railway, and a post office under Burton, Westmoreland.
Acres, 1, 616. Real property, £3, 000; of which £16 are in quarries. Pop. in 1851, 1, 154; in 1861, 750. Houses, 138. The decrease of pop. was caused by suspension of labour in an extensive flax and woollen manufactory. This was burnt in 1861, but was reconstructed in 1864, and then made a cocoa-matting manufactory.
The landed property is divided among a few. Holme-fell is part of the surface; and Farleton-knot is adjacent.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Carlisle. Value, £150. Patron, the Vicar of Burton. The church has a tower, and is very good.
There are a Wesleyan chapel and a national school.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
FamilySearch
Census returns for Holme, 1841-1891
Bishop’s transcripts for Holme, 1856-1876
Parish registers for Holme, 1842-1909
Maps
OS Grid Reference: SD5232278959 (all-numeric format: 352323 478960)
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: Lonsdale
- Province: York