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Temple Sowerby

 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. Temple Sowerby was a chapelry in the parish of Kirkby Thore in East Ward in the North of the county.

It is adjacent to Cliburn, Brougham, Morland, Milburn and Cumberland.

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Census

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 1992. ISBN 1897590008.

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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Church History
Picture of Temple Sowerby Church by Les Strong St James.
The church is of 1754 but with an aisle of 1770, a W tower of 1807-8 and chancel and arcade of 1873.

Photograph(s) and description on VisitCumbria.
Acess and contact details on Church of England site.
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Church Records

Baptism registers 1670-1881 The parish records and BTs are held at the Kendal Record Office of Cumbria Archives Service.

The Record Office reference is WPR81

For searching on www.familysearch.org see Jake Prescott's list of IGI batch numbers.
Marriage registers 1669-1871
Banns registers 1755-1980
Burial registers 1669-1931
Bishops transcripts 1774-1891

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Directories

The details for the parish from the Parson & White's Directory for 1829 are transcribed on Edenlinks site.

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History
Magna Britannica et Hibernia.Volume 6: Westmorland by Thomas Cox 45 pages, printed in 1731. Temple Sowreby, the Lordship of Robert Lord Clifford, who being slain at the fatal Battle of Bannock-moor, 7 Edw. II. his Widow, Maud, one of the Heirs of Thomas de Clare, had a Moiety of this Lordship, and some other of his estates in Dower, which returned at her Death to Roger her Son; but she was then the Wife of Robert de Welle, a great Baron in Lincolnshire.
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Population

1641/2 140(est)
1671 147(est)
1787 301
1801 299
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Probate Records

The manorial court for Temple Sowerby exercised probate jurisdiction - it was a "peculiar".
Original records and inventories for 1580-1816 will be at Carlisle . And presumably also regular wills etc since about 1858.

There is a transcript of the index of the peculiar wills by Susan Langley Thomas.

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Taxation

Hearth Tax records for 1674 Temple Sowerby  transcribed on Edenlinks.
Window Tax records for 1777 Temple Sowerby transcribed on Edenlinks.

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Last updated: February 2012Dave Huddart