Farlam, Cumberland Genealogy

England Cumberland  Cumberland Parishes

Parish History
"FARLAM (St. Thomas à Becket), a parish, in the union of Brampton, Eskdale ward, E. division of Cumberland; containing 1035 inhabitants, of whom 526 are in the township of East Farlam, 3 miles (E. by S.) from Brampton, and 509 in that of West Farlam. The parish comprises by admeasurement 5164 acres, of which about one-third is arable, and the remainder pasture and meadow, with a portion of woodland; the substratum is chiefly limestone and coal, the former extensively quarried and burnt into lime, and the latter worked in the adjoining parish of Hayton. At Milton is a station on the Newcastle and Carlisle railway. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £98; patron and impropriator, the Earl of Carlisle."

From: Lewis, Samuel A., "A Topographical Dictionary of England" (1848), pp. 209-213. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50955 Date accessed: 19 August 2011.

Civil Registration
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Probate records
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