Crosthwaite, Cumberland Genealogy
Guide to Crosthwaite, Cumberland ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Crosthwaite, Cumberland | |
|---|---|
| Type | England Jurisdictions |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Allerdale above Derwent; Allerdale below Derwent |
| County | Cumberland, England Genealogy |
| Poor Law Union | Cockermouth |
| Registration District | Cockermouth |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1562 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1669 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Allerdale |
| Diocese | Carlisle |
| Province | York |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Bishop of Carlisle (Episcopal Consistory) |
| Location of Archive | |
| Cumberland Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
CROSTHWAITE (St. Kentigern), a parish, in the union of Cockermouth, Allerdale ward below Derwent, W. division of Cumberland, ½ a mile (N. by W.) from Keswick.[1] The following chapelries lay within the ancient parish boundary, including:
1) Borrowdale – 1775
2) Castlerigg St Johns in the Vale – 1718
3) Grange – 1861
4) Keswick – 1839
5) Newlands – 1699
6) Thornthwaite – 1776
7) Wythburn - 1777
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]
Crosthwaite, Cumberland Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| BOYD = Boyd's Marriage Index (findmypast) - (£)[2] | |||||
| PALL = Pallot's Marriage Index (Ancestry) - (£)[3] | |||||
| PRTs = Parish Register Transcripts (FamilySearch) - free[4] |
| CROSSTHWAITE PARISH Online Records | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| BOYD | 1562-1600 | |||||
| PALL | 1790-1812 | |||||
| PRTs | 1562-1812 | 1562-1812 | 1562-1812 | |||
Records on microfilm
Parish registers for Crosthwaite, 1566-1934 at the FHL
Bishop's transcripts for Crosthwaite, 1669-1890 at the FHL
Parish registers for Chapelry St. John's-in-the-Vale, 1776-1981 at the FHL
Bishop's transcripts for Chapelry St. John's-in-the-Vale, 1775-1889 at the FHL
Parish registers for Chapelry Grange, 1879-1977 at the FHL
Bishop's transcripts for Chapelry Grange, 1861-1866 at the FHL
Non-Conformist Churches[edit | edit source]
- 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images
- Society of Friends/Quaker
- Wesleyan Methodist
Census records[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
Probate Records[edit | edit source]
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Cumberland 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[edit | edit source]
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites[edit | edit source]
Crosthwaite on GENUKI
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Samuel A. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), Date accessed and adapted 23 July 2013.
- ↑ Percival Boyd, A List of Parishes in Boyd's Marriage Index (London: Society of Genealogists, 1987).
- ↑ Pallot's Marriage and Birth Indexes, Guide to Parishes.
- ↑ FamilySearch Catalog. Accessed 19 January 2016.
