Harrington, Cumberland Genealogy

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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
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
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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

Church records, 1783-1966

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

Baptisms
Marriages
Burials

 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]

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[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]

  1. ↑ Samuel A. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of England Date accessed and adapted 30 July 2013.
  2. ↑ Percival Boyd, A List of Parishes in Boyd's Marriage Index (London: Society of Genealogists, 1987).
  3. ↑ Pallot's Marriage and Birth Indexes, Guide to Parishes.
  4. ↑ 'Parish Records - Cumberland Coverage', The Genealogist, accessed 27 September 2013.
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Links to Cumberland-related articles
Topics
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Probate
Courts
Major
 Repositories
Cumberland Record Office · The National Archives · Society of Genealogists Library
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