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| | [[England]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[Lancashire]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[Lancashire Parishes]] |
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| |Country=England
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| Guide to '''Coniston, Lancashire ancestry, family history, and genealogy:''' chapelry register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
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| | Place = Coniston
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| | Type = [[Ecclesiastical Parish ]]
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| | County = Lancashire
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| | Hundred = Lonsdale
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| | Poor Law Union = [http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Ulverston/ Ulverston]
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| | Registration District = Ulverstone
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| | PRbegin = 1599
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| | BTbegin = 1689
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| | Province = York
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| | Diocese = Chester
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| | Rural Deanery = Furness and Cartmel
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| | Probate Court = Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Commissary of the Archdeaconry of Richmond Western Deaneries
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| | Archive = [[Lancashire Record Office]]
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| === Chapelry History ===
| | Guide to '''Coniston, Lancashire family history and genealogy:''' chapelry register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records. |
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| 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>Lewis, Samuel A., [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>
| | == Chapelry History == |
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| == Resources == | | 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> |
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| === Find Neighboring Parishes === | | == Resources == |
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| Use [https://www.familysearch.org/mapp/ England Jurisdictions 1851 Map]
| | ==== Civil Registration ==== |
| ::*Type the name of the parish in the ''search bar''
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| ::*Click "List Contiguous Parishes" to find the neighboring parishes<br>
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| === Civil Registration ===
| | Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The [[England Civil Registration|civil registration]] article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is [http://freebmd.org.uk/ FreeBMD]. |
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| Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day.<br> | |
| *''See [[England Civil Registration]] for online resources and information''.<br><br>
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| ==== Lancashire Online Parish Clerks ==== | | ==== Lancashire Online Parish Clerks ==== |
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| An extremely useful resource for research in Lancashire Parishes http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/<br> | | An extremely useful resource for research in Lancashire Parishes http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/<br> |
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| === Church Records === | | ==== Church records ==== |
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| ''The Church of England'' (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor. <br>
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| ''Non-Conformist'' refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.
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| ====Church of England==== | | ==== Census records ==== |
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| ''Chapelry'' is a church or churches built in a large ecclesiastical parish to help the members attend worship services closer to their homes.<br>
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| '''''Online Parish Records Table'''''
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| <font color=blue> Due to the increasing access of online records:</font><br>
| | ==== Poor Law Unions<br> ==== |
| *<font color=blue>Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified<br>
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| *Dates in the following table are approximate </font><br>
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| '''''Hover over the collection's title for more information'''''
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| {| class="wikitable" width="100%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" border="1"
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| | bgcolor="#b6cee2" align="center" scope="col" colspan="7" | '''Coniston Parish Records'''
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| | bgcolor="#efdcc3" | <center>'''''Collections'''''</center>
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| | bgcolor="#d9bfbf" colspan="2" | <center>'''''Baptisms'''''</center>
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| | bgcolor="#bfd9bf" colspan="2" | <center>'''''Marriages'''''</center>
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| | bgcolor="#cac4d4" colspan="2" | <center>'''''Burials'''''</center>
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| | bgcolor="#E8E8E8" | <center>''Indexes and images''</center>
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| | bgcolor="#E8E8E8" | <center>''Indexes only''</center>
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| | bgcolor="#ffffff" | <center>''Indexes and images''</center>
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| | bgcolor="#ffffff" | <center>''Indexes only''</center>
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| | bgcolor="#E8E8E8" | <center>''Indexes and images''</center>
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| | bgcolor="#E8E8E8"| <center>''Indexes only''</center>
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| | bgcolor="#ffffff" width="30%"| FamilySearch Collections-Lancashire
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| | bgcolor="#E8E8E8" | <center>[https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&f.recordType=0&q.recordCountry=England&q.recordSubcountry=England%2CLancashire 1500s-1900s]</center>
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| | bgcolor="#E8E8E8" | <center>'''-'''</center>
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| | bgcolor="#ffffff" | <center>[https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&f.recordType=1&q.recordCountry=England&q.recordSubcountry=England%2CLancashire 1500s-1900s]</center>
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| | bgcolor="#ffffff" | <center>'''-'''</center>
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| | bgcolor="#E8E8E8"|<center>[https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&f.recordType=2&q.recordCountry=England&q.recordSubcountry=England%2CLancashire 1500s-1900s]</center>
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| | bgcolor="#E8E8E8" | <center>'''-'''</center>
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| | bgcolor="#ffffff" width="30%"| Parish Registers-Lancashire
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| | bgcolor="#E8E8E8" | <center>{{RecordSearch|1465701|1500s-1900s}}</center>
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| | bgcolor="#E8E8E8" | <center>'''-'''</center>
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| | bgcolor="#ffffff" | <center>{{RecordSearch|1465701|1500s-1900s}}</center>
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| | bgcolor="#ffffff" | <center>'''-'''</center>
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| | bgcolor="#E8E8E8"|<center>{{RecordSearch|1465701|1500s-1900s}}</center>
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| | bgcolor="#E8E8E8" | <center>'''-'''</center>
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| | bgcolor="#ffffff" width="30%"| Bishop's Transcripts - FamilySearch Catalog
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| | bgcolor="#E8E8E8" | <center>{{FS Bishop's Transcript}}</center>
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| | bgcolor="#E8E8E8" | <center>'''-'''</center>
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| | bgcolor="#ffffff" | <center>{{FS Bishop's Transcript}}</center>
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| | bgcolor="#ffffff" | <center>'''-'''</center>
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| | bgcolor="#E8E8E8"|<center>{{FS Bishop's Transcript}}</center>
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| | bgcolor="#E8E8E8" | <center>'''-'''</center>
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| | bgcolor="#ffffff" width="30%"| FreeREG
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| | bgcolor="#E8E8E8"| <center>'''-'''</center>
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| | bgcolor="#E8E8E8"| <center> [https://www.freereg.org.uk/ 1500s-1900s] </center>
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| | bgcolor="#ffffff" | <center>'''-'''</center>
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| | bgcolor="#ffffff" | <center>[https://www.freereg.org.uk/ 1500s-1900s] </center>
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| | bgcolor="#E8E8E8"| <center>'''-'''</center>
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| | bgcolor="#E8E8E8" | <center> [https://www.freereg.org.uk/ 1500s-1900s] </center>
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| | bgcolor="#ffffff" width="30%"| Findmypast-Lancashire ($)
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| | bgcolor="#E8E8E8" | <center>[https://search.findmypast.com/search-world-records/lancashire-baptisms 1500s-1900s] </center>
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| | bgcolor="#E8E8E8"| <center>'''-'''</center>
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| | bgcolor="#ffffff" | <center>[https://search.findmypast.com/search-world-records/lancashire-banns-and-marriages 1500s-1900s] </center>
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| | bgcolor="#ffffff" | <center>'''-'''</center>
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| | bgcolor="#E8E8E8" | <center> [https://search.findmypast.com/search-world-records/lancashire-burials 1500s-1900s] </center>
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| | bgcolor="#E8E8E8" | <center>'''-'''</center>
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| | bgcolor="#ffffff" width="30%"| Ancestry-Church of England BMD-Lancashire ($)
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| | bgcolor="#E8E8E8" | <center> [https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2575/ 1500s-1900s] </center>
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| | bgcolor="#E8E8E8"| <center>'''-'''</center>
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| | bgcolor="#ffffff" | <center> [https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2576/ 1500s-1900s] </center>
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| | bgcolor="#ffffff" | <center>'''-'''</center>
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| | bgcolor="#E8E8E8" | <center> [https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2577/ 1500s-1900s] </center>
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| | bgcolor="#E8E8E8"| <center>'''-'''</center>
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| | bgcolor="#ffffff" width="30%"| Ancestry-England & Wales, Birth, Christening, Marriage and Death Indexes ($)
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| | bgcolor="#E8E8E8"| <center>'''-'''</center>
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| | bgcolor="#E8E8E8"| <center>[https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/9841/ 1500s-1900s]<br>[https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1351/ 1500s-1900s]</center>
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| | bgcolor="#ffffff" | <center>'''-'''</center>
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| | bgcolor="#ffffff" | <center>[https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/9852/ 1500s-1900s]<br>[https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1352/ 1500s-1900s] </center>
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| | bgcolor="#E8E8E8" | <center>'''-'''</center>
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| | bgcolor="#E8E8E8"| <center>[https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/9840/ 1500s-1900s]<center>
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| | bgcolor="#dbe7f0" align="center" scope="col" colspan="7" | ''Databases with Known Incomplete Parish Coverage''
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| | bgcolor="#ffffff" width="30%"| Boyd's Marriage Indexes-FMP (Free)
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| | bgcolor="#E8E8E8"| <center>'''-'''</center>
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| | bgcolor="#ffffff" | <center>'''-'''</center>
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| | bgcolor="#ffffff" | <center>[https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/england-boyds-marriage-indexes-1538-1850 1500s-1800s]</center>
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| | bgcolor="#E8E8E8"| <center>'''-'''</center>
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| | bgcolor="#ffffff" width="30%"| National Burial Index-FMP (Free)
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| | bgcolor="#E8E8E8"| <center>'''-'''</center>
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| | bgcolor="#E8E8E8"| <center>[https://search.findmypast.com/search-world-Records/national-burial-index-for-england-and-wales 1800s-1900s]</center>
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| '''''Other Websites'''''<br>
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| These databases have incomplete parish coverage. <br>
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| *[http://joinermarriageindex.co.uk/marriage-records/Lancashire/ Joiner Marriage Index - Lancashire] ($)
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| *[https://parishregister.co.uk/online/lancashire-parish-records The Genealogist Parish Registers - Lancashire] ($)
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| *[http://www.dustydocs.com/ UK Websites for Parish Records] - Links to online genealogical records
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| *[https://ogindex.org/ Online Genealogical Index] - Links to online genealogical records
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| *[http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/ OnLine Parish Clerks - Lancashire] - OnLine Parish Clerks project for Lancashire
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| ====Nonconformist Records====
| | [[Ulverston Poor Law Union,Lancashire]] |
| "Nonconformist" is a term referring to religious denominations other than an established or state church. In England, the state church is the Church of England.<br>
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| Census records from 1841 to 1921 are available online. See [[England Census|England Census]] for more resources. <br>
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| === Poor Law Unions === | | ==== 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|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. | | Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to [[Lancashire Probate Records|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. |
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| ==== Taxation ==== | | ==== Taxation ==== |
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| *'''1665-1667''' - Lancashire Hearth Tax: Lonsdale Hundred, Coniston. [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/e179/default.asp E 179/132/352], The National Archives. Microfilm: {{FSC|988765|item|disp=FS Library Film 2228692}}. | | *'''1665-1667''' - Lancashire Hearth Tax: Lonsdale Hundred, Coniston. [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/e179/default.asp E 179/132/352], The National Archives. Microfilm: {{FHL|988765|item|disp=FHL Film 2228692}}. |
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| == Maps and Gazetteers == | | == Maps and Gazetteers == |
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| Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place. | | Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.<br> |
| *[https://www.familysearch.org/mapp/ England Jurisdictions 1851] | | |
| *[https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/index.jsp Vision of Britain] | | *[http://maps.familysearch.org/ England Jurisdictions 1851] |
| | *[http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/index.jsp Vision of Britain] |
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| == Websites == | | == Websites == |
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| [http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LAN/Coniston/ Coniston on GENUKI]
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| http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53336 British History online Monks Coniston | | http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53336 British History online Monks Coniston<br> |
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| == References == | | == References == |
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| {{Reflist}} | | {{Reflist}} |
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| {{Lancashire}} | | {{Lancashire}} |
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| [[Category:Lancashire Parishes]] | | [[Category:Lancashire]] |