Scaleby, Cumberland Genealogy

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

Parish History
SCALEBY (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Longtown, Eskdale ward, E. division of Cumberland, 6½ miles, and 354 in West Scaleby, 5½ miles (N. E. by N.) from Carlisle.

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
Parish registers for Scaleby, 1590-1916

Bishop's transcripts for Scaleby, 1590-1857

Non-Conformist Churches

 * Wesleyan Methodist - Church records, 1892-1985
 * Wesleyan Methodist Association

Probate records
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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Scaleby on GENUKI