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Appleby St Lawrence

 Location of parish on undated map by William Mackenzie, scanned by Sarah Reveley. Area around the parish on undated map by William Mackenzie, scanned by Sarah Reveley.   One of Appleby's 2 parishes
  with St Michael Bongate

Description & Travel
Nicolson and Burn:
The history and antiquities of the counties of Westmorland and Cumberland. 1777.
Transcribed by Anne Nichols.		 "The parish of St. Laurence is bounded on the East by St. Michael's, commonly called Bongate parish; on the South-east and South, by Ormeshead and Asby parishes; on the West, by Crosby Ravensworth and Morland parishes; and on the North, by the said parishes of Morland and St. Michael's: And contains in the whole about 160 families [in 1777], all of the church of England.

The church (as the name imports) was dedicated to St. Laurence; which was the original of the fair at Appleby on that saint's day, and the same feast of St. Laurence is for the like reason in ancient writings appointed for the payment of rents in places thereabouts. It is a vicarage.

[Note: The parish of St. Laurence also covers Colby... Barwise... Hoff and Drybeck.] "

Cemeteries

Monumental inscriptions were transcribed in Monumental Inscriptions of Westmorland by E. Bellasis 1888-89 and are available on Westmorland Papers.

Census

No returns survive for the 'census' is of 1787.

Census returns are available from the usual sources for 1841-1901.

Transcript and index for 1851 has been published by the Cumbria Family History Society and also in 'North Westmorland - An Index to the 1851 Census' compiled by David Lowis and Barbara Slack.

Church History

Picture of St Lawrence's church by Les Strong St Laurence Church dates from Norman times in the base of the West Tower and the South Porch doorway. Internally the five-bay arcade is Decorated work from the C14th and the screens are C15th. Externally the Perpendicular-style windows are Victorian. The church contains monuments to Lady Ann Clifford (d.1676) and her mother the Countess of Cumberland.
Photograph(s) and description on VisitCumbria.
Acess and contact details on Church of England site.

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Church Records

Baptism registers 1694-1956 The parish records are held at the Kendal Record Office
of Cumbria Archives Service.
The Record Office reference is WPR28

BTs are in Kendal RO..
Marriage registers 1695-1976
Banns registers 1809-1924
Burial registers 1694-1963
Bishops transcripts 1665-1869
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History

British History Online provides historical notes for St Lawrence, Appleby from The Later Records relating to North Westmorland by John F. Curwen (1932)

Magna Britannica et Hibernia.Volume 6: Westmorland by T Cox in 1731.
Transcription by S Reveley,  J Fisher and L Schoenwald. 		Buley-Castle, situate on the River Eden, a little above Appleby on the North-West, and belonging to the Bishop of Carlisle.
It is said to have been erected at two or three Times by the Bishops of that See, several of whom have kept their Ordinations here, as there are still in Being several Registers to testify, if a Proof of it were necessary.


See the history for the town.

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Population

1641/2 561(est)
1671 783(est)
1801 711
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Taxation


Hearth Tax records for 1674 Colby (Appleby) transcribed on Edenlinks.
Hearth Tax records for 1674 Appleby transcribed on Edenlinks.

Window Tax records for 1777  Appleby transcribed on Edenlinks.
Window Tax records for 1777 Colby transcribed on Edenlinks.

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Last updated: Jan 2012 - Dave Huddart