Yealand Conyers, Lancashire Genealogy

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Guide to Yealand Conyers, Lancashire family history and genealogy: chapelry register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.



Chapelry History
YEALAND-CONYERS (St Mary), a township with a chapel, in the parish of Warton (near Lancaster), union of Lancaster, hundred of Lonsdale south of the Sands, N. division of Lancashire, 2¼ miles west by southwest from Burton-in-Kendal. The church, dedicated to St. John, was built in 1838, and a district has been assigned to it comprising all Yealand. Other places in the parish include: Yealand Redmayne. Yealand Redmayne is a village and civil parish in the English county of Lancashire. It is in the City of Lancaster district. The civil parish also includes Slack Head. It is north of Lancaster and near the county border. The Society of Friends have a place of worship; and there is a Roman Catholic chapel.

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.

Online index of Lancashire Births, Marriages and Deaths Lancashire BMD

Lancashire Online Parish Clerks
An extremely useful resource for research in Lancashire Parishes http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/

Online Records
 Church of England 

Yealand chapelry's registers of christenings, marriages and burials, along with those of the ancient parish of Warton to which it is attached, have been mostly transcribed and are displayed online at the following web sites and ranges of years:

For a full list of all those chapels surrounding Yealand and comprising the whole ancient parish of Warton to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the WARTON PARISH page.

Poor Law Unions
Lancaster Poor Law Union,Lancashire

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Lancashire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Taxation

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

Maps and Gazetteers
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain