Inskip, Lancashire Family History Guide

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Inskip is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Lancashire, created in 1850 from St Michael on Wyre Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Sowerby.

Alternative names: Inskip with Sowerby

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1848
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1848

Nonconformists include: Particular Baptist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

INSKIP, a township and a chapelry in St. Michael-on-Wyre parish, Lancashire.

The township bears the name of Inskip-with-Sowerby; lies 4 miles WSW of Brock r. station, and 9 NW of Preston; and has a postal letter box under Preston. Acres, 2,888. Real property, £3,748. Pop., 663. Houses, 129. The manor belongs to the Earl of Derby.

The chapelry is larger than the township, and was constituted in 1850. Pop., 780. Houses, 158.

The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £105. Patron, the Vicar of St. Michael-on-Wyre. The church is a neat edifice, of nave and chancel, with a belfry.

There are a Baptist chapel, a national school, and some small charities.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Lancashire, Inskip – Cemeteries ( 2 )
Inskip Baptist Chapel, index of interment books, memorial inscriptions, grave occupancy, 1817-1996 : Preston Road, Inskip, Nr Preston, Lancashire, Grid ref. 102 455380
Author: Worthington, William; Kay, R. S.; Baptist Church (Inskip, Lancashire)

St. Peters, Inskip, index [and] burial registers, memorial inscriptions, 1849-1994 : Inskip, Nr Preston, Lancs. (O.S.Sheet 102 Grid Ref. SD 463 379)
Author: Worthington, William; Church of England. Chapelry of Inskip (Lancashire)

England, Lancashire, Inskip – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Inskip with Sowerby, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Lancashire, Inskip – Church history ( 1 )
Hitherto – or the history of the Baptist Church, at Roebuck from 1815-1817, and at Inskip from 1817-1917 : as a souvenir of the centenary celebrations, held August 5th and 6th, 1917
Author: Long, A. J.

England, Lancashire, Inskip – Church records ( 6 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Inskip, 1848-1883
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Inskip (Lancashire)

Church records, 1817-1837
Author: Particular Baptist Chapel (Inskip, Lancashire)

Inskip Baptist Chapel
Author: Baptist Church (Inskip, Lancashire)

Inskip Baptist Chapel, index of interment books, memorial inscriptions, grave occupancy, 1817-1996 : Preston Road, Inskip, Nr Preston, Lancashire, Grid ref. 102 455380
Author: Worthington, William; Kay, R. S.; Baptist Church (Inskip, Lancashire)

Parish registers for Inskip, 1848-1900
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Inskip (Lancashire)

St. Peters, Inskip, index [and] burial registers, memorial inscriptions, 1849-1994 : Inskip, Nr Preston, Lancs. (O.S.Sheet 102 Grid Ref. SD 463 379)
Author: Worthington, William; Church of England. Chapelry of Inskip (Lancashire)

England, Lancashire, Inskip – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Computer printout of Inskip, Particular Baptist, Lancs., Eng

Administration

  • County: Lancashire
  • Civil Registration District: Garstang
  • 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: Garstang
  • Hundred: Amounderness
  • Province: York