Hutton Roof, Westmorland Family History Guide

Hutton Roof is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Westmorland, created in 1743 from a chapelry in Kirkby Lonsdale Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Newbiggin and Hutton Roof Park.

Alternative names:

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1799
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1813

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

• Beetham
• Kirkby Lonsdale
• Whittington, Lancashire
• Lupton
• Holme
• Burton in Kendal

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

HUTTON-ROOF, a township chapelry in Kirkby-Lonsdale parish, Westmoreland; adjacent to Lancashire, 3 miles E of Burton and Holme r. station, and 3 W by S of Kirkby-Lonsdale. It includes the hamlet of Newbiggin, and has a post office under Burton, Westmoreland. Acres, 2,635. Real property, £2,341; of which £347 are in quarries. Pop. in 1851, 343; in 1861, 284. Houses, 56.

Hutton-Roof Park belonged to the Carus family; passed to the Bellinghams, the Prestons, and Col. Charteris; and belongs now to W. E. Wilson, Esq. Hutton Crags are a prominent feature; and limestone, blue stone, and mill stone are quarried.

The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Carlisle. Value, £90. Paron, the Vicar of Kirkby-Lonsdale. The church was rebuilt in 1757, and repaired in 1866.

There are a Wesleyan chapel, and charities £16.

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. John’s Church, Hutton Roof and Lupton

Census returns for Hutton-Roof, 1841-1891

Bishop’s transcripts for Hutton-Roof, 1813-1871

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

Parish registers for Hutton-Roof, 1796-1900

Parish registers for Kirkby-Lonsdale, 1538-1910

Parish register printouts of Hutton Roof, Westmoreland, England, christenings, 1813-1871

Maps

OS Grid Reference: SD5688178136 (all-numeric format: 356881 478136)

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