Maryport, Cumberland Genealogy

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Guide to Maryport, Cumberland ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Maryport, Cumberland
Type Chapelry
Civil Jurisdictions
Hundred Allerdale below Derwent
County Cumberland
Poor Law Union Cockermouth
Registration District Cockermouth
Records begin
Parish registers: 1761
Bishop's Transcripts: 1761
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
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Chapelry History[edit | edit source]

MARYPORT, a chapelry, market-town, and seaport, in the parish of Cross-Cannonby, union of Cockermouth, Allerdale ward below Derwent, W. division of Cumberland, 30 miles (S. W. by W.) from Carlisle. There are places of worship for Baptists, Burghers, the Society of Friends, Presbyterians, and Wesleyans.[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]

Maryport parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

FS = FamilySearch - free
BOYD = England, Boyd's Marriage Indexes, 1538-1850 (FindMyPast) - free
NBI = National Burial Index (FindMyPast) - free
IGI = International Genealogical Index (FamilySearch) - free[2]
FS Catalog PRs = FamilySearch Catalog Parish registers - free
FS Catalog BTs = FamilySearch Catalog Bishop's transcripts - free
Maryport Online Parish Records
Baptisms
Marriages
Burials
Indexes Images Indexes Images Indexes Images
FS 1538-1975
1538-1973
1538-1991
BOYD

1538-1850


NBI



1538-1939
IGI



FS Catalog PRs


FS Catalog BTs


To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

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]

Maryport on GENUKI

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ Samuel A. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), Date accessed and adapted 6 August 2013.
  2. ↑ ArcherSoftware.co.uk
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Links to Cumberland-related articles
Topics
Parishes

Addingham  • Aikton  • Ainstable  • Allhallows  • Allonby  • Alston with Garrigill  • Arlecdon  • Armathwaite  • Arthuret  • Aspatria  • Bassenthwaite  • Beaumont  • Beckermet St Bridget  • Beckermet St John  • Bewcastle  • Bolton  • Bootle  • Borrowdale  • Bowness  • Brampton  • Bridekirk  • Brigham  • Bromfield  • Burgh by Sands  • Buttermere  • Caldbeck  • Camerton  • Carlatton  • Carlisle  • Carlisle Christ Church  • Carlisle Holy Trinity  • Carlisle St Cuthbert  • Carlisle St Mary  • Castle Carrock  • Castle Sowerby  • Cleator  • Clifton  • Cloffocks  • Cockermouth  • Corney  • Croglin  • Crosby on Eden  • Crosscanonby  • Crosthwaite  • Culgaith  • Cumrew  • Cumwhitton  • Dacre  • Dalston  • Dean  • Dearham  • Distington  • Drigg  • Eaglesfield Abbey  • Edenhall  • Egremont  • Embleton  • Ennerdale  • Eskdale  • Farlam  • Flimby  • Geltsdale  • Gilcrux  • Gosforth  • Great Orton  • Great Salkeld  • Greystoke  • Grinsdale  • Haile  • Harrington  • Hayton  • Hensingham  • Hesket in the Forest  • Holme Cultram  • Holme Eden  • Holme Low  • Houghton St John  • Hutton in the Forest  • Ireby  • Irthington  • Irton  • Isel  • Ivegill  • Keswick  • Kirkandrews on Eden  • Kirkandrews on Esk  • Kirkbampton  • Kirkbride  • Kirkland  • Kirklinton  • Kirkoswald  • Lamplugh  • Lanercost with Kirkcambeck  • Langwathby  • Lazonby  • Lorton  • Lowside Quarter  • Loweswater  • Maryport  • Matterdale  • Melmerby  • Midgeholme  • Millom  • Moresby  • Mosser  • Mount Pleasant  • Muncaster  • Mungrisdale  • Nenthead  • Nether Denton  • Nether Wasdale  • Newlands  • Newton-Arlosh  • Newton Reigny  • Nicholforest  • Ousby  • Over Denton  • Penrith  • Plumbland  • Plumpton Wall  • Ponsonby  • Raughton Head  • Renwick  • Rockcliffe  • Salter and Eskat  • Scaleby  • Sebergham  • Setmurthy  • Silloth Christ Church  • Silloth St Paul  • Skelton  • Skiddaw  • St Bees  • St John's in the Vale  • Stanwix  • Stapleton  • Thornthwaite  • Threlkeld  • Thursby  • Thwaites  • Torpenhow  • Uldale  • Ulpha  • Upperby  • Waberthwaite  • Walton  • Wasdale Head  • Watermillock  • Westward  • Wetheral with Warwick  • Whicham  • Whitbeck  • Whitehaven Holy Trinity  • Whitehaven St James  • Whitehaven St Nicholas  • Wigton  • Workington St Michael  • Workington St John  • Wreay  • Wythburn  • Wythop

Probate
Courts
Major
 Repositories
Cumberland Record Office · The National Archives · Society of Genealogists Library


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