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Caton with Littledale, Lancashire
Type	Ecclesiastical Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
Hundred	Lonsdale
County	Lancashire
Poor Law Union	Caton Gilbert Union
Registration District	Lancaster
Records begin
	Parish registers: 1585
	Bishop's Transcripts: 1673
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery	Amounderness
Diocese	Manchester
Province	York
Legal Jurisdictions
Probate Court	Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Commissary of the Archdeaconry of Richmond Western Deaneries - Amounderness
Location of Archive
	Lancashire Record Office
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Guide to Caton with Littledale, Lancashire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: chapelry register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Chapelry History[edit | edit source]

CATON with LITTLEDALE (St Paul) is a chapelry in the county of Lancashire, created by 1585 from Lancaster St Mary, hundred of Lonsdale south of the Sands, N. division of the county of Lancaster,5 miles (N. E. by E.) from Lancaster. The chapelry comprises four districts or quarters, viz.: Brookhouse, Caton Green, Littledale,and Town-End. The parish church of St Paul situated in Brookhouse is generally of 17th century construction but retains some Norman features. There are places of worship for Wesleyans and Independents. ^[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.

Online index of Lancashire Births, Marriages and Deaths Lancashire BMD

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[edit | edit source]

Church of England

Caton chapelry's registers of christenings, marriages and burials, along with those of the ancient parish of Lancaster St. Mary to which it is attached, 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

CATON Chapelry (1585) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	1585-1859	1586-1718	1846-1859
LOPC	1586-1900	1586-1900	1585-1900
FMP	None	1586-1837	None
AC	1585-1718	1585-1718	1585-1718
LANCASTER ST MARY'S PARISH (1599) Indexes (ancient parish containing CATON Chapelry)
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	1599-1886	1599-1812	None
LOPC	1749-1900	1599-1900	1749-1881
FMP	None	1539-1837	None
LBMD	None	1837-1998	None
AC	1559-1748	1559-1748	1559-1748

For a full list of all those chapels surrounding Caton and comprising the whole ancient parish of Lancaster St. Mary to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the LANCASTER ST MARY PARISH page.

Caton- St Paul
Baptisms Transcript- 1585-1719- 929.3272 C25
Burials Transcript- 1585-1718- 929.3272 C25
Marriages Transcript- 1586-1718- 929.3272 C25

For original registers of above please enquire at Lancashire Record Office.

The Manchester Room and Greater Manchester County Record Office
Email: archiveslocalstudies@manchester.gov.uk

The Manchester Room@City Library (Local Studies)

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
[edit | edit source]

Caton Gilbert 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.

Taxation[edit | edit source]

1665-1667 - Lancashire Hearth Tax: Lonsdale Hundred, Caton. E 179/132/352, The National Archives. Microfilm: FHL Film 2228692.

Maps and Gazetteers
[edit | edit source]

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

Web sites [edit | edit source]

Caton on GENUKI

References[edit | edit source]

↑ Samuel A. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 531-534. Date accessed: 10 September 2013.

[1] Samuel A. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 531-534. Date accessed: 10 September 2013.

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