Bolton, Westmorland Genealogy
Guide to Bolton, Westmorland ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Bolton, Westmorland | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ecclesiastical Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | West |
| County | Westmorland |
| Poor Law Union | West Ward |
| Registration District | West Ward |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1647 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1668 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Westmorland |
| Diocese | Carlisle |
| Province | York |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Bishop of Carlisle (Episcopal Consistory) |
| Location of Archive | |
| Westmorland Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
BOLTON, achapelry, in the parish of Morland,West ward and union, county of Westmorland,4 miles (N. W. by W.) from Appleby. A meeting-house for Methodists was built in 1818.[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.
Church records[edit | edit source]
Bolton, Westmorland Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| PRTs = Parish Register Transcripts (FamilySearch) - free[2] |
| Bolton, Westmorland Genealogy Online Parish Records | ||||||
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| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| PRTs | 1647-1812 | 1647-1812 | 1647-1812 | |||
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 Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
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 Westmorland 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.
Websites[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Samuel A. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 295-302. Date accessed: 16 July 2012.
- ↑ FamilySearch Catalog. Accessed 19 January 2016.
