Harrington, Cumberland Genealogy
Guide to Harrington, Cumberland ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Harrington, Cumberland | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ancient parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Allerdale above Derwent |
| County | Cumberland, England Genealogy |
| Poor Law Union | Whitehaven |
| Registration District | Whitehaven |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1653 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1688 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Copeland |
| Diocese | Carlisle |
| Province | York |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Archdeaconry of Richmond Western Deaneries - Copeland |
| Location of Archive | |
| Cumberland Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
HARRINGTON, a small sea-port and a parish, in the union of Whitehaven, Allerdale ward above Derwent, W. division of Cumberland, 2 miles (S.) from Workington. The Primitive Methodists and Wesleyan Methodists, each have a place of worship.[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 Harrington, 1653-1922
Bishop's transcripts for Harrington, 1688-1875
Harrington parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| BOYD = Boyd's Marriage Index (findmypast) - (£)[2] | |||||
| FREG = FreeReg.org.uk | |||||
| PALL = Pallot's Marriage Index (Ancestry) - (£)[3] | |||||
| TGEN = TheGenealogist - (£)[4] |
| HARRINGTON PARISH Online Records | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| BOYD | 1652-1812 | |||||
| FREG | None | None | 1652-1837 | None | None | None |
| PALL | 1790-1837 | |||||
| TGEN | 1652-1837 | 1652-1837 | 1652-1837 | |||
Non-Conformist Churches[edit | edit source]
- Primitive Methodist
- Wesleyan Methodist - Church records, 1877-1950
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]
Harrington on GENUKI
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Samuel A. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of England Date accessed and adapted 30 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.
- ↑ 'Parish Records - Cumberland Coverage', The Genealogist, accessed 27 September 2013.
