Newbiggin St Edmund, Westmorland Genealogy
Guide to Newbiggin St Edmund, Westmorland ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Newbiggin St Edmund, Westmorland | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | East |
| County | Westmorland |
| Poor Law Union | East Ward |
| Registration District | East Ward |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1571 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1665 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Westmorland |
| Diocese | Carlisle |
| Province | York |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Bishop of Carlisle (Episcopal Consistory) |
| Location of Archive | |
| Westmorland Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
NEWBIGGIN (St. Edmund), a parish, in Eastward and union, county of Westmorland, 7¼ miles(N. W. by N.) from Appleby. [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]
Newbiggin St Edmund, Westmorland Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| PALL = Pallot's Marriage Index (Ancestry) - (£)[2] | |||||
| PRTs = Parish Register Transcripts (FamilySearch) - free[3] | |||||
| TGEN = TheGenealogist - (£)[4] |
| NEWBIGGIN ST EDMUND PARISH Online Records | ||||||
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| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| PALL | 1790-1812 | |||||
| PRTs | 1571-1812 | 1571-1812 | 1571-1812 | |||
| TGEN | 1571-1812 | 1571-1812 | 1571-1812 | |||
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.
In December 1787 the Westmorland Court of Quarter Sessions commissioned a population survey of the county. Parish constables were ordered to send in returns listing the names and occupations of the members of every household in their constablewick. This census is found in Vital Statistics, The Westmorland "Census' of 1787. This book is available at the Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah. The library call number is British Ref. Area 942.88 X2v.
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]
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References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Samuel A. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 374-379. Date accessed: 06 August 2012.
- ↑ Pallot's Marriage and Birth Indexes, Guide to Parishes.
- ↑ FamilySearch Catalog. Accessed 19 January 2016.
- ↑ 'Parish Records,' TheGenealogist, accessed 26 April 2014.
