Askham, Westmorland Genealogy
Guide to Askham, Westmorland ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Askham, Westmorland | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | West |
| County | Westmorland |
| Poor Law Union | West Ward |
| Registration District | West Ward |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1566 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1661 | |
| 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 HistoryEdit
ASKHAM (St. Peter), a parish, in West ward and union, county of Westmorland, 4¾ miles (S.) from Penrith. [1]
ResourcesEdit
Civil RegistrationEdit
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 recordsEdit
Askham, Westmorland Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| FREG = FreeReg.org.uk | |||||
| PALL = Pallot's Marriage Index (Ancestry) - (£)[2] | |||||
| TGEN = TheGenealogist - (£)[3] |
| ASKHAM PARISH (1566) Online Records | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| FREG | 1566-1812 | None | 1566-1812 | None | 1566-1812 | None |
| PALL | 1790-1812 | |||||
| TGEN | 1566-1812 | 1566-1812 | 1566-1812 | |||
Census recordsEdit
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.
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
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
Edit
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
WebsitesEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ Samuel A. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 96-100. Date accessed: 11 July 2012.
- ↑ Pallot's Marriage and Birth Indexes, Guide to Parishes.
- ↑ 'Parish Records,' TheGenealogist, accessed 26 April 2014.
