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South Stainmore
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"STAINMORE, a chapelry in the parish of BROUGH, EAST ward, county of WESTMORLAND, 4 miles (E. S. E.) from Brough, containing 6lfi inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Carlisle, endowed with £400 private benefaction, and £400 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Earl of Thanet. The chapel was erected as a school-house in 1594, consecrated for divine service in 1608, and repaired, in 1699, by Thomas, Earl of Thanet, who built the school-house adjoining, in which about thirty children are instructed, but the only permanent income attached to it is an annuity of £8, devised by Sir Cuthbert Buckle, Knt., in 1594. "
[From Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of England (1831) - copyright Mel Lockie 2016]
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Stainmore or South Stainmore is a parish in the East Ward of the county adjacent to Kirkby Stephen, Brough and Durham.
Until 1721 it was a chapelry of Kirkby Stephen so additional information may be found under yhat parish.
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Returns survive for Stainmoor for the 'census' of 1787 and are held at the Kendal Record Office of Cumbria Archives Service. The Record Office reference is WQ/SP/C. They are transcribed in Vital Statistics published by Curwen Archives Trust 1992. ISBN 1897590008.
Census returns are available from the usual sources for 1841-1911.
Transcript and index for 1851 has been published by the Cumbria Family History Society and also in 'North Westmorland - An Index to the 1851 Census' compiled by David Lowis and Barbara Slack.
| St Stephen's, South Stanemore The church was built in 1842. It comprises a three-bay nave and chancel with projecting square bellcote. This and other photographs are on the Geograph site. Photograph(s) and description on VisitCumbria. Access and contact details on Church of England site. |
Parish Registers and Bishop's Transcripts are held by Cumbria Archives :
originals at Kendal RO and microfilm copies at Carlisle RO.
| Baptism registers | 1708-1880 |
| Marriage registers | 1711-1738 |
| Banns registers | - |
| Burial registers | - |
| Bishops transcripts | 1795-1856 |
See the CASCAT online calogue for WPR23B for information on these and other parish records..
For searching on LDS familysearch.org see IGI batch numbers (compiled by Jake Prescott)
or use the batch number search site (by Hugh Wallis).
The University of Leicester History, Directory & Gazetteer of Cumberland & Westmorland, 1829
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from South Stainmore to another place.
Cumbria County History Trust has published a "Jubilee Digest" for the township of Stainmore
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference NY847152 (Lat/Lon: 54.53164, -2.238325), South Stainmore which are provided by:
- OpenStreetMap
- Google Maps
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Old Maps Online
- National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.
Kirkby Thore is in the diocese of Carlisle and wills will be in Carlisle Record Office.