Mansergh, Westmorland Family History Guide

Mansergh is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Westmorland, created in 1728 from a chapelry in Kirkby Lonsdale Ancient Parish.

Alternative names:

Parish church: St Peter

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1813
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1813

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

MANSERGH, a township-chapelry in Kirkby-Lonsdale parish, Westmoreland; on the river Lune, 1 mile WSW of Barbon r. station, and 2½ N of Kirkby-Lonsdale. Post town, Kirkby-Lonsdale, under Burton, Westmoreland.

Acres, 2,568. Real property, £2,475. Pop., 190. Houses, 35. The property is subdivided. Mansergh Hall is a chief residence.

The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Carlisle. Value, £110. Patron, the Vicar of Kirkby-Lonsdale. The church is ancient and good.

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 Mansergh, 1841-1891

Bishop’s transcripts for Kirkby-Lonsdale, 1676-1874 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Kirkby-Lonsdale (Westmoreland)

Bishop’s transcripts for Mansergh, 1813-1870 Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Mansergh (Westmoreland)

Parish registers for Kirkby-Lonsdale, 1538-1910 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Kirkby-Lonsdale (Westmoreland)

Parish registers for Mansergh, 1813-1902 Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Mansergh (Westmoreland)

Parish register printouts of Mansergh, Westmoreland, England, christenings, 1813-1870

Maps

OS Grid Reference: SD6011682668 (all-numeric format: 360117 482669); 54.238°N 2.612°W

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