Over Kellet, Lancashire Genealogy

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Chapelry History
Over Kellet St Cuthbert was created a chapel of ease by 1682 from, and lying within the boundaries of Bolton le Sands, LancashireAncient Parish. Other places in the parish include: Capernwray.

The parish, which is in the City of Lancaster, includes the village of Capernwray, at its northern end and the Lancaster Canal passes through the parish.

The village was referred to as Chellet in the the Domesday Book, and more recently has also been known as Lesser Kellet. It is approximately 1 mile ( east of Carnforth, and 0.6 miles east of junction 35 of the M6 motorway.

The parish church is St Cuthbert's, which has existed since 1215. The current building a Grade II listed building, mostly built in the 16th century. It was restored in 1864, and is now a joint Anglican/Methodist church.

"KELLET, OVER, a chapelry, in the parish of Bolton-le-Sands, hundred of Lonsdale south of the Sands, N. division of Lancashire, 6¼ miles north by northeast of Lancaster, to the right of the road to Kendal. The chapel, dedicated to St. Cuthbert, has a chapelyard."

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/

Church records
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Poor Law Unions
Caton Gilbert 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.

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