Thornton in Lonsdale Yorkshire Family History Guide

Thornton in Lonsdale is an Ancient Parish mostly in Yorkshire and partly in Lancashire.

Other places in the parish include: Westhouse, Thornton in Lonsdale with Masongill, and Masongill.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1576
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1689

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

THORNTON-IN-LONSDALE, a parish, with three townships, partly in Lancaster district, Lancashire, but chiefly in Settle district, W. R. Yorkshire; on the Ingleton railway, 1 mile WNW of Ingleton. Post town, Ingleton, under Lancaster.

Acres, 13,242. Rated property, £10,260. Pop., 1,151. Houses, 237. The property is much subdivided. T. Scar is a picturesque cliff, about 300 feet high; and T. Force is a fine cascade, about 90 feet in fall. Yordas Cave, and spots around it, present romantic features.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £120. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Worcester. The church is old.

The p. curacy of Burton-in-Lonsdale is a separate benefice. Charities, £51.

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

Parish Records

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England, Lancashire, Thornton-in-Lonsdale

England, Yorkshire, Thornton-in-Lonsdale – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Thornton in Lonsdale, St. Oswald [monumental inscriptions]
Author:    Farrow, Dorothy; Lancashire Family History and Heraldry Society. Ribble Valley Branch; Church of England. Parish Church of Thornton-in-Lonsdale (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Thornton-in-Lonsdale – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Thornton in Lonsdale, 1841-1891
Author:    Great Britain. Census Office

England, Yorkshire, Thornton-in-Lonsdale – Church records ( 5 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Burton-in-Lonsdale, 1847-1864
Author:    Church of England. Chapelry of Burton-in-Lonsdale (Yorkshire)

Bishop’s transcripts for Thornton-in-Lonsdale, 1755-1856
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Thornton-in-Lonsdale (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Thornton-in-Lonsdale, parish registers, 1724-1993
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Thornton-in-Lonsdale (Yorkshire); North Yorkshire County Record Office (Northallerton, Yorkshire)

The parish register of Thornton-in-Lonsdale, (1576-1812)
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Thornton-in-Lonsdale (Yorkshire); Chippindall, William Harold, b. 1850

The parish registers of the church of Thornton-in-Lonsdale, 1576-1812
Author:    Chippindall, William Harold, b. 1850; Church of England. Parish Church of Thornton-in-Lonsdale (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Thornton-in-Lonsdale – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Computer printout of Thornton in Lonsdale, Yorks., Eng

England, Yorkshire, Thornton-in-Lonsdale – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments for Burton-in-Lonsdale, 1781-1831
Author:    Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)

Administration

  • County:    Yorkshire
  • Civil Registration District:    Settle
  • Probate Court:    Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Commissary of the
  • Archdeaconry of Richmond Western Deaneries – Lonsdale
  • Diocese:    Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
  • Rural Deanery:    Clapham
  • Poor Law Union:    Settle
  • Hundred:    Staincliff and Ewcross
  • Province:    York