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

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

The memorial inscriptions of St. Patrick’s Church, Preston Patrick, Holy Trinity Church, Holme, and The Society of Friends burial grounds at Preston Patrick and Preston Richard

Census returns for Holme, 1841-1891

Bishop’s transcripts for Holme, 1856-1876

Parish registers for Holme, 1842-1909

Computer printout of Holme, Westmoreland, England : extracted for the controlled extraction program and published by the Genealogical Dept. of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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