Crosthwaite
& Lyth is a parish in Kendal
Ward bordering with Lancashire.
It was formerly part of Heversham
parish, and adjoins Winster,
Underbarrow, Helsington, Levens and Witherslack
Returns do not
survive for the 'census' of 1787.
Census returns are
available from the usual sources for 1841-1901.
Church History
St Mary.
1878. W tower.
Church Records
The parish records and
Bishop'
Transcripts are held at the Kendal Record Office of
Cumbria Archives
Service. The Record Office reference is WPR3. There will be
microfilm copies at Carlisle Record Office.
| Baptism registers |
1570-1967 |
| Marriage registers |
1570-1840 |
| Banns registers |
1754-1958 |
| Burial registers |
1570-1956 |
| Bishops transcripts |
1664-1871 |
Directories
History
"Crossethwaite, an Hamlet, whose Manor was, 30 Hen.
III. The Possession of William de Lancaster, Baron of Kendal, who died then possessed of it;
but
leaving Agnes de Brus his Wife surviving, she had for her Dowry an
Assignation of this Manor and divers others which she held for her Life.
Tho whom it passed from this Family, we do not certainly know, but find
Robert de Thweng dying possessed of it, and other Estates in this
County 48
Edw. III. He had no Issue, and so his Estates descended to the Heirs of
his
three Sisters, Lucy, Margaret, and Katharine; but to which of them this
Manor fell in the Partition doth not appar; for we observe nothing of
it,
till John de Beaufort, Marquis of Dorset, died possessed of it 22 Hen.
VI.
And leaving it to his only Daughter Margaret, with his other great
Estates,
she by Marriage carried them to Edmund of Hadham, Earl of Richmond,
whose
Son Henry by her became King of England, by the Name of Henry VII.
Lych, the Lordship of William de Lancaster, Baron of Kendal, the Third
of
that Name, who dying 30 Hen. III left Agnes his Wife surviving, who had
this
Manor and divers other Estates assigned for her Dowry; the Rest passed
to
his Heirs, who were his Sister's Children, of whom Peter de Brus, the
Son of
Helewyse, his Sister, had the Barony of Kendal, to which this Manor
belonged. From his Family it passed by the female Heir also to Robert de
Ros, who was on that Account stiled Baron of Kendal.
Le Lythe, the Lordship of Thomas de Theweng, who died seized of it, and
divers other Estates, 48 Edw. III leaving them to the Descendants of his
three Sisters, viz. Lucy, the Wife of Sir Robert Lumley; Margaret, to
Sir
Robert de Hilton, and Katharine of Sir Ralph D'aubeny; but to which of
them,
upon the Partition, this Manor fell, we cannot discover. It is an
Hamlet to
Helsington."
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
Crosthwaite
and Lyth Records relating to
the Barony of Kendale, CWAAS,
William Farrer & John F. Curwen (editors) are available on
British History Online
Supplementary
Records - Crosthwaite and Lyth
Probate
Records
Wills for Crosthwaite
& Lyth will be at
Carlisle
since about 1858 but before that will be at the Preston
R.O.
as it was in the Diocese of Chester until that time.
Taxation
Hearth
Tax records for 1674 Crosthwaite
& Lyth (Heversham) transcribed on Edenlinks.
Last updated: April 2006 Dave
Huddart
