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Thrimby is a parish in the West Ward of the county adjacent to Lowther, Bampton, Shap, Crosby Ravensworth and Morland. It was formerly part of the last mentioned parish. It includes Little Strickland.

"Strickland (Stirkland) gave name to the family of Strickland, which continued here for many generations, and afterwards removed to Sizergh.

Thrimby is a small village in this parish, consisting only of about six families."

Nicolson and Burn: The history and antiquities of the counties of Westmorland and Cumberland. 1777. Transcribed by Anne Nichols.

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.

Church History

St Mary chapel. Not in Pevsner.

Church Records

The parish records are held at the Kendal Record Office of Cumbria Archives Service. The Record Office reference is WPR105

The BTs are in Kendal RO.

For searching on www.familysearch.org see Jake Prescott's list of IGI batch numbers.

Directories

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

History

Maps

A present-day web map is available from Multimap.

Population

Probate Records

Thrimby is in the diocese of Carlisle and wills will be in Carlisle Record Office.

Taxation

Hearth Tax records for 1674 Thrimby (Morland) transcribed on Edenlinks.
Window Tax records for 1777 Thrimby transcribed on Edenlinks.

Last updated: Nov 2008 Dave Huddart