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Guide to '''Coniston, Lancashire family history and genealogy:''' chapelry register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.  
Guide to '''Coniston, Lancashire family history and genealogy:''' chapelry register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.  
{{Infobox England Jurisdictions
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| Type = [[Ecclesiastical Parish ]]
| County = Lancashire
| Hundred = Lonsdale
| Poor Law Union = Ulverston
| Registration District = Ulverstone
| PRbegin = 1599
| BTbegin = 1689
| Province = York
| Diocese = Chester
| Archdeaconry =
| Archdeaconries =
| Rural Deanery = Furness and Cartmel
| Parish =
| Peculiar =
| Chapelry =
| Probate Court = Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Commissary of the Archdeaconry of Richmond Western Deaneries - Furness
| Archdeaconry Court =
| Bishops Court =
| Prerogative Court =
| Archive = [[Lancashire Record Office]]
}}


== Chapelry History  ==
=== Chapelry History  ===


CONISTON, MONK, with Skelwith, a '''township''', in the parish of Hawkshead, union of Ulverston,hundred of Lonsdale north of the Sands, N. division of the county of Lancaster, 4 miles (W. by N.) from Hawkshead. Slate quarrying and tourism are the two main sources of employment in the village. <ref>Samuel A. Lewis, [http://british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50894#s12 ''A Topographical Dictionary of England]'' (1848), pp. 679-682. Date accessed: 23 September 2013.</ref>  
CONISTON, MONK, with Skelwith, a '''township''', in the parish of Hawkshead, union of Ulverston,hundred of Lonsdale north of the Sands, N. division of the county of Lancaster, 4 miles (W. by N.) from Hawkshead. Slate quarrying and tourism are the two main sources of employment in the village. <ref>Samuel A. Lewis, [http://british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50894#s12 ''A Topographical Dictionary of England]'' (1848), pp. 679-682. Date accessed: 23 September 2013.</ref>  


== Resources  ==
=== Resources  ===


==== Civil Registration  ====
==== Civil Registration  ====
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==== Church records  ====
==== Church records  ====


==== Census records  ====
==== Census records  ====


{{British Census|306916}}  
{{British Census|306916}}  
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==== Poor Law Unions<br>  ====
==== Poor Law Unions<br>  ====


[[Ulverston Poor Law Union,Lancashire]]  
[[Ulverston Poor Law Union,Lancashire]]  
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==== Probate records  ====
==== Probate records  ====


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*[http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/index.jsp Vision of Britain]
*[http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/index.jsp Vision of Britain]


== Websites ==
== Websites ==


{{expand section|any additional relevant sites that aren't mentioned above}}  
{{expand section|any additional relevant sites that aren't mentioned above}}  
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http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53336 British History online Monks Coniston<br>  
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53336 British History online Monks Coniston<br>  


== References ==
== References ==


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