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Guide to Natland, Westmorland ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Natland, Westmorland | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ecclesiastical Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Kendal |
| County | Westmorland |
| Poor Law Union | Kendal |
| Registration District | Kendal |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1777 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1813 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Kendal |
| Diocese | Chester |
| Province | York |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Commissary of the Archdeaconry of Richmond Western Deaneries - Kendal |
| Location of Archive | |
| Westmorland Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
Natland was created a chapelry by 1813 and lay within the ancient parish boundaries of Kendal.
NATLAND, a chapelry, in the parish, union, and ward of Kendal, county of Westmorland, 2¼ miles(S.) from Kendal. [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]
Natland parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| Natland Online Parish Records | ||||||
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| FS | 1538-1975 | 1538-1973 | 1538-1991 | |||
| BOYD | 1538-1850 | |||||
| JOIN | 1538-1837 | |||||
| IGI | 1813-1870 | |||||
| FS Catalog PRs | 1813-1858 | 1813-1858 | 1813-1858 | |||
| FS Catalog BTs | 1813-1870 | 1813-1870 | 1813-1870 | |||
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.
Records are also available at the Kendal Archive Centre.
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
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Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Westmorland 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
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Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Samuel A. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 366-368. Date accessed: 06 August 2012.
- ↑ ArcherSoftware.co.uk
