Cockerham, Lancashire Family History Guide
Cockerham is an Ancient Parish in the county of Lancashire.
Other places in the parish include: Cleveley, Forton, Thurnham with Abbey Farm, Crook Farm, Light House and Brow House, Thurnham, and Holleth.
Parish church:
Parish registers begin: 1595
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Roman Catholic, and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
Cockerham
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
COCKERHAM, a township and a parish in the district and county of Lancaster. The township lies on the Cocker rivulet, adjacent to the Lancaster canal, and the Lancaster and Preston railway, 2 miles SW of Bay Horse r. station, and 4½ NNW of Garstang; and has a post office under Garstang, Lancashire, and a fair on Easter Monday. Acres, 4,860. Real property, £8,078. Pop., 778. Houses, 131.
The parish contains also the township of Ellel and part of the township of Thurnham. Acres, 10,480. Real property, with the rest of Thurnham, £20,561. Pop., 2,922. Houses, 530. The property is much subdivided. Thurnham is the seat of the Daltons. Some of the inhabitants are employed in cotton and silk mills. The living is a vicarage in the diocese. of Manchester. Value, £640. Patrons, the Lords of the manor. The church is in the pointed style, and has a spire. The p. curacies of Ellel, Shireshead, and Dolphinholme are separate benefices. There are three dissenting chapels and an endowed school.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Abbey Farm
Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870
Abbey-Farm, an extra-parochial tract, the site of the ancient abbey of Cockerham, 4 ½ miles SSW of Lancaster. Pop., with Crook-Farm, 42.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
The National Gazetteer 1868
ABBEY FARM, an ext. par. place, in the tnshp. of Thurnham, and hund, of Lonsdale, in the co. palatine of Lancaster, 4 miles to the S. W. of Lancaster. It was the site of Cockerham abbey.
Thurnham
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
THURNHAM, a township in Lancaster and Cockerham parishes, Lancashire; 4½ miles SSW of Lancaster-Acres, 1,219. Real property, £3,345. Pop., 717. Houses, 121. Much of the land belongs to Sir J. Fitzgerald, Bart. T. Hall is an ancient mansion. There are a handsome Roman Catholic chapel and an endowed school.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Registers
Cockerham Parish Registers 1595 to 1657
Marriage Licences and Allegations
London Marriage Licences and Allegations 1521 to 1869
The following have been extracted from London Marriage Licences 1521 to 1869.
Abbreviations. — B. Bishop of London’s Office; D. Dean and Chapter of Westminster; F. Faculty Office of Archbishop of Canterbury; V. Registry of the Vicar-General of Canterbury.
Salmon, James, of South Ockendon, co. Essex, mariner, bachelor, about 24, and Jane Frost, of Cockerham, co. Lancaster, spinster, about 24, her mother’s consent — at St. Michael, Cornhill, or St. Botolph, Bishopsgate. 1 June, 1675. V.
Source: London Marriage Licences 1521 to 1869; Edited by Joseph Foster; London 1887
Parish Records
FamilySearch
Lancashire Historical Directories
Administration
- County: Lancashire
- Civil Registration District: Lancaster
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Commissary of the Archdeaconry of Richmond Western Deaneries – Amounderness
- Diocese: Manchester
- Rural Deanery: Amounderness
- Poor Law Union: Lancaster
- Hundred: Lonsdale
- Province: York