Hensingham, Cumberland Family History Guide
Hensingham is a chapelry of St Bees Ancient Parish in Cumberland.
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Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1811
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1811
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist Association
Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
HENSINGHAM, a village and a chapelry in St. Bees parish, Cumberland. The village stands on a rising ground, 1 mile SE of Whitehaven r. station; has a postoffice under Whitehaven; and conducts some trade in linen thread, linen fabrics, and ropes. The chapelry comprises 956 acres. Real property, £5,420. Pop. in 1851, 1,336; in 1861, 1,538. Houses, 314. Hensingham House was the seat of the Senhouses. Limestone is extensively quarried and calcined. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Carlisle. Value, £126. Patron, the Earl of Lonsdale. The church is modern; and there are a Primitive Methodist chapel, and a national school. Archbishop Grindall was a native.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
FamilySearch Catalog - Free
Census
Census returns for Hensingham, 1841-1891
Church Records
Computer printout of Hensingham, Cumb., Eng
Taxation
Window tax for Whitehaven and Hansingham, also, land tax for Whitehaven, Preston Quarter, 1770
Maps
Vision of Britain historical maps
Administration
- County: Cumberland
- Civil Registration District: Whitehaven
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Richmond Western Deaneries - Copeland
- Diocese: Carlisle
- Rural Deanery: Copeland
- Poor Law Union: Whitehaven
- Hundred: Allerdale above Derwent Ward
- Province: York