Great Musgrave, Westmorland Genealogy
Guide to Great Musgrave, Westmorland ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Great Musgrave, Westmorland | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ancient parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | East |
| County | Westmorland, England Genealogy |
| Poor Law Union | East Ward |
| Registration District | East Ward |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1558 | |
| 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
MUSGRAVE, GREAT (St. Theobald), a parish,in East ward and union, county of Westmorland, 2 miles (W. S. W.) from Brough. [1]
Resources
Civil Registration
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
Great Musgrave parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| Great Musgrave Online Parish Records | ||||||
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| FS | 1538-1975 | 1538-1973 | 1538-1991 | |||
| BOYD | 1538-1850 | |||||
| JOIN | 1538-1837 | |||||
| IGI | 1665-1773, 1774-1868 | 1665-1773, 1774-1865 | ||||
| FS Catalog PRs | 1558-1945 | 1558-1945 | 1558-1945 | |||
| FS Catalog BTs | 1665-1868 | 1665-1868 | 1665-1868 | |||
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
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
Probate records
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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites
References
- ↑ Samuel A. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 359-362. Date accessed: 06 August 2012.
- ↑ ArcherSoftware.co.uk
