Thrimby, Westmorland Family History Guide

Thrimby is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Westmorland, created in 1741 from a chapelry in Morland Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Little Strickland and Great Strickland.

Alternative names: Trimby

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1813
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1813

Nonconformists include: Society of Friends/Quaker

Adjacent Parishes

Lowther
Cliburn
Morland
Shap

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

THRIMBY, a chapelry, with two townships, in Morland parish, Westmoreland; 3 miles N of Shap r. station. Post town, Shap, Westmoreland. Acres, 2,278. Real property, £1,990. Pop., 201. Houses, 35.

The manor belonged to the Thirnebys; and passed, through the Haveringtons and others, to the Lowthers.

The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Carlisle. Value, £80. Patron, the Vicar of Morland. The church was rebuilt in 1814.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

Memorial inscriptions for Cliburn, Kirkby Thore, Milburn, Newbiggin, Temple Sowerby; Vol 6, Dufton, Long Marton, Morland, Bolton, Gt. Strickland, Thrimby

The memorial inscriptions of St. Laurence’s Morland, All Saints Bolton, St. Barnabas Gt. Strickland, & St. Mary’s Thrimby

Census returns for Thrimby, 1841-1891

Bishop’s transcripts for Thrimby, 1813-1870

Parish register printouts of Thrimby, Westmoreland, England ; christenings, 1813-1870

Maps

OS Grid Reference: NY5540420542 (all-numeric format: 355404 520543)

Vision of Britain historical maps
OS maps

Ordnance Survey
OS maps

National Library of Scotland
OS maps

Administration

• County: Westmorland
• Civil Registration District: West Ward
• Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Carlisle (Episcopal Consistory)
• Diocese: Carlisle
• Rural Deanery: Westmorland
• Poor Law Union: West Ward
• Hundred: West Ward
• Province: York