Middleton, Westmorland Family History Guide

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Middleton is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Westmorland, created in 1732 from a chapelry in Kirkby Lonsdale Ancient Parish.

Alternative names: Middleton in Lonsdale

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1670
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1676

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

MIDDLETON, a township-chapelry in Kirkby-Lonsdale parish, Westmoreland; on the river Lune, and on the Ingleton branch of the Northwestern railway, 2½ miles W of the boundary with Yorkshire, and 5 N by E of Kirkby-Lonsdale.

It has a station on the railway, and a post office, designated Middleton-in-Lonsdale, Westmoreland. Acres, 7,503. Real property, £3,567. Pop. in 1851, 275; in 1861, 366. Houses, 55. Middleton Hall belonged to the Askews, and became ruinous. Grimes Hill is a recent mansion and a chief residence. Much of the land is moor and mountain. A battle is said to have been fought between the English and the Scotch near the old bridge.

The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Carlisle. Value, £100. Patron, the Vicar of Kirkby-Lonsdale. The church was built in 1634. There are an endowed school with £10 a year, and charities £26.

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

Parish Registers

Marriage Allegations

The following people have been recorded in the Hampshire Allegations for Marriage Licences granted by the Bishop of Winchester 1689 to 1837.

HOBLETHWAITE, Edward, of Middleton, co. Westmoreland, & Elizabeth Reeves, at [blank, ? Portsmouth or Alverstoke], 5 Oct., 1703.

Parish Records

FamilySearch

Monumental inscriptions of Middleton in Lunesdale, Holy Ghost with burial register 1671-1812 : monumental inscriptions of Firbank, St John; monumental inscriptions of Killington, All Saints

Census returns for Middleton, 1841-1891

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

Bishop’s transcripts for Middleton, 1676-1886 Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Middleton (Westmoreland)

Monumental inscriptions of Middleton in Lunesdale, Holy Ghost with burial register 1671-1812 : monumental inscriptions of Firbank, St John; monumental inscriptions of Killington, All Saints Author: Cumbria Family History Society

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

Parish registers for Middleton, 1671-1901 Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Middleton (Westmoreland)

The registers of Middleton-in-Lonsdale, Westmoreland, 1670-1812 Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Middleton (Westmoreland); Haswell, John Francis

Computer printout of Middleton in Longsdale, Westmoreland, England

Maps

OS Grid Reference: SD6229485988 (all-numeric format: 362295 485988); 54.268°N 2.579°W

Vision of Britain historical maps
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Ordnance Survey
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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