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Milburn, formerly part of Kirkby Thore parish, is a parish in the East Ward of the county adjacent to Kirkby Thore, Newbiggen and Cumberland.
It is an attractive sandstone village around the green complete with maypole.
Milburn is derived from 'the mill stream'.
Milburn : A History. David Butterworth 1997 printed by Titus Wilson & Son , Kendal.
Returns survive for the 'census' of 1787 and are held at the Kendal Record Office of Cumbria Archives Service. The Record Office reference is WQ/SP/C. They are transcribed in Vital Statistics published by Curwen Archives Trust.
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.
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Late Norman S doorway. The chancel also has Norman work. The nave has an early C14th aisle. There is a bellcote of 1616. |
The parish records and BTs are held at the Kendal Record Office of Cumbria Archives Service. The Record Office reference is WPR47.
Baptism registers 1678-1932 Marriage registers 1679-1966 Banns registers 1754-1968 Burial registers 1678-1978 Bishops transcripts 1682-1888 The registers for 1672-1812 have been transcribed by Roland Grigg: ( A to G) : ( H to R) : ( S to Z)
These are included in a combined Cumbrian parish register index (available through Wayback Machine Internet Archive) .For searching on www.familysearch.org see Jake Prescott's list of IGI batch numbers.
The details for the parish from the Parson & White's Directory for 1829 are transcribed on Edenlinks site.
"Milburn, or Milneborn, the Lordship of the aforesaid Lord Clifford 4th, left to his Son Thomas, with other his large Estates, as above mentioned, as was also Murtone another Village, as also
Howgill Castle, situate upon Burnibeck, a small River at a little Distance from the Maiden-way Northward, belonging to the antient Family of Sandfords, who were in their Time of great Repute, for Sir Walter Sandford was Knight of the Shire for this County 15 Edw. II. And Sir Robert de Sandford was Knight of the Shire for this County 16 and 19 Years of King Edw. II. His Son Robert as we suppose, was so acceptable to the Men of this County, that he served for them in Parliament many Times in the Reign of King Edw. III. Viz, 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 9, 14, and the 17 and 18 Years of that Reign, and Thomas de Sandford and William de Sandford 20th."
Magna Britannica et Hibernia.Volume 6: Westmorland by Thomas Cox (Vicar of Bromfield, Essex) 45 pages, printed in 1731.
Transcription by Sarah Reveley, Joan Fisher and Lisl Schoenwald. (Rootsweb Westmorland Listmembers) (c) 2003
Milburn was originally held by Wetheral Priory. In the time of King John it transferred to the de Stuteville then to the de Veteriponts then to the Cliffords.The C14th Howgill Castle was owned by the Lord of the Manor Colonel Honeywood who was wounded in the last battle on English soil - the skirmish at Clifton Moor in 1745.
A present-day web map is available from Multimap.
1641/2 155(est) 1671 221(est) 1787 275 1801 237
Milburn is in the diocese of Carlisle and wills will be in Carlisle Record Office.
Last updated: Jan 2009 Dave Huddart