Thornton in Lonsdale, Yorkshire Genealogy

Guide to Thornton in Lonsdale, Yorkshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

'''Part of this parish is in Lancashire. See also Thornton in Lonsdale, Lancashire.'''

Parish History
Thornton in Lonsdale is an Ancient Parish mostly in Yorkshire and partly in Lancashire. Other places in this parish include Ireby.

THORNTON-IN-LONSDALE (St. Oswald), a parish, partly in the hundred of Lonsdale south of the Sands, N. division of Lancashire, but chiefly in the union of Settle, wapentake of Staincliffe and Ewcross, W. riding of York; containing, with Ireby township, which forms the Lancashire portion, and with Black-Burton township, 1138 inhabitants, of whom 364 are in the township of Thornton, 11½ miles (N. W.) from Settle.

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

Church Records
Thornton in Lonsdale parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the West Yorkshire Archive Service.

Census
Surname Index for 1841-1901 provided by Ingleborough Archaeology Freebooters. These surnames were gleaned from the images in Thornton in Lonsdale census enumerators books 1841-1901.

Surname Index for 1841-1901 provided by Ingleborough Archaeology Freebooters. These surnames were gleaned from the images in Ireby census enumerators books 1841-1901.

Taxation

 * 1665-1667 - Lancashire Hearth Tax: Lonsdale Hundred, Ireby. E 179/132/352, The National Archives. Microfilm:.