Cumwhitton, Cumberland Genealogy
Guide to Cumwhitton, Cumberland ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Cumwhitton, Cumberland | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ecclesiastical Parish (England) |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Eskdale |
| County | Cumberland, England Genealogy |
| Poor Law Union | Brampton |
| Registration District | Brampton |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1695 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1665 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Carlisle |
| 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]
CUMWHITTON (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Brampton, Eskdale ward, E. division of Cumberland.[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]
Parish registers for Cumwhitton, 1694-1961 at the FHL
Bishop's transcripts for Cumwhitton, 1665-1877 at the FHL
Cumwhitton, Cumberland Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| BOYD = Boyd's Marriage Index (findmypast) - (£)[2] |
| Cumwhitton, Cumberland Genealogy Online Records | ||||||
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| BOYD | 1651-1675 | |||||
Non-Conformist Churches[edit | edit source]
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]
Cumwhitton on GENUKI
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Samuel A. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848) Date accessed and adapted 25 July 2013.
- ↑ Percival Boyd, A List of Parishes in Boyd's Marriage Index (London: Society of Genealogists, 1987).
