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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.
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.

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Church History

Picture of Thrimby Church by Les Strong St Mary chapel. Not in Pevsner.
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Church Records

Baptism registers 1813-1905
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.
Marriage registers 1872-1983
Banns registers -
Burial registers 1814-1986
Bishops transcripts 1813-1870

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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

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Maps

A present-day web map is available from Multimap.

Population

1641/2 121(est)
1671 185(est)
1787 152
1801 158

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Probate Records

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

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Taxation

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


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Last updated: Nov 2009 Dave Huddart