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See a List of Chapelries in Colton Parish.

Parish History[edit | edit source]

Colton Holy Trinity was an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Lancashire, created by 1623 from Hawkshead, Lancashire Ancient Parish. See also a List of Chapelries in Colton Parish and, a List of Chapelries in Hawkshead Parish

Other places in the parish include: Bethecar Moor, Nibthwaite, Colton West, and Colton East.

Colton is a village in Cumbria since 1974 (historically part of Lancashire), England. Its name has been recorded as Coleton (which is Old English for 'village') and Coulton, and its existence has been recorded as early as 1202. The settlement is situated on an incline, at the top of which is Colton Church, which was built in 1575 and rebuilt 25 years later. Colton Beck, which runs beside the village, was once known as Cole, meaning 'hazel stream'.[The local parish council is also named Colton, and includes Finsthwaite, Lakeside, Oxen Park, Nibthwaite, Bouth, and Rusland in its boundary.

The modern parish is in the diocese of Carlisle.

"COULTON [or Colton] (Holy Trinity), a parish, in the union of Ulverston, hundred of Lonsdale north of the Sands, N. division of the county of Lancaster; comprised also the chapelries of Haverthwaite and Rusland and the parochial chapelry of Finsthwaite. East Coulton is 5 miles north by east from Ulverston." See also the chapels of Haverthwaite, Rusland, and Finsthwaite. There was built also a meeting-house for the Society of Friends here.^[1]

Resources[edit | edit source]

Civil Registration[edit | edit source]

Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

Lancashire Online Parish Clerks[edit | edit source]

An extremely useful resource for research in Lancashire Parishes http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/

Church records[edit | edit source]

Online Records (Under Construction)[edit | edit source]

Colton parish registers and those registers of all of its smaller chapelries lying within its boundaries have been mostly transcribed and are displayed online at the following web sites and ranges of years:

_{FS =}_{FamilySearch.org}
_LOPC =_{Lancashire Online Parish Clerk project}
_FMP =_{FindMyPast.co.uk}
_{LBMD =}_{LancashireBMD.org.uk}
_{AC =}_{Ancestry.co.uk}
_{FREG =}_FreeReg

COLTON HOLY TRINITY PARISH (1623) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	1623-1655, 1676-1870	1626-1648, 1676-1854	1676-1870
LOPC	1811-1825	1811-1825	1811-1825
LBMD	None	None	None
FMP	None	1626-1837	None
FINSTHWAITE ST PETER Chapelry (1725) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	1725-1882	1727-1901	1725-1905
LOPC	1726-1840	1727-1839	None
LBMD	None	None	None
FMP	None	1727-1836	None
HAVERTHWAITE Chapelry (1832) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	1832-1888	1862-1901	1833-1901
LOPC	None	None	None
LBMD	None	None	None
RUSLAND Chapelry (1) Indexes*
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS
LOPC
LBMD

Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

Census records[edit | edit source]

Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a FamilySearch Center or at the FamilySearch Library.

Poor Law Unions
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Ulverston Poor Law Union,Lancashire

Probate records
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Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Lancashire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Maps and Gazetteers
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Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.

Web sites[edit | edit source]

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References[edit | edit source]

↑ A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis (1848), pp. 700-702. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50899 Date accessed: Adapted. 29 June 2010.

[1] A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis (1848), pp. 700-702. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50899 Date accessed: Adapted. 29 June 2010.

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