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Firbank

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. 

  Firbank is a parish in Lonsdale Ward in the South East of the county.
  It adjoins the West Riding of Yorkshire.

  It was formerly part of Kirkby Lonsdale parish.
  Other nearby parishes are Killington, Old Hutton, New Hutton and    Greyrigg.


Census

Returns do not survive for the 'census' of 1787.

Census returns are available from the usual sources for 1841-1901.

Church History

Click here for larger photo of church by Kath Hayhurst  St John Evangelist.
1842 by Bateman.
Nave and short chancel.

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Church Records

The parish records and Bishop' Transcripts are held at the Kendal Record Office of Cumbria Archives Service. The Record Office reference is WPR32. There will be microfilm copies at Carlisle Record Office.

Baptism registers 1746-1812
Marriage registers 1746-1969
Banns registers 1757-1801
Burial registers 1756-1810
Bishops transcripts 1813-1867

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

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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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Probate Records

Wills for Firbank 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 Firbank transcribed on Edenlinks.

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Last updated: Jan 2009 Dave Huddart