Holme Low, Cumberland Genealogy

England Cumberland  Cumberland Parishes

Township History
"HOLME, LOW, a township, Holme Cultram parish., W. Cumberland, on Solway Firth, 6160 ac. (19 water) and 3540 foreshore, pop. 2092." A district was created and a chapel built here by the year 1846, which also served the then growing population and newly created port town of Silloth. Later Christ Church chapel was built to serve much of Silloth by the year 1865.

HOLME-CULTRAM (Virgin Mary), a parish, in the union of Wigton, Allerdale ward below Derwent, W. division of Cumberland, 6½ miles (W. N. W.)from Wigton; containing 3037 inhabitants, of whom 933 are in the township of Low Holme, 868 in that of Abbey-Holme, 766 in that of St. Cuthbert, Holme, and 470 inthat of East Waver-Holme. This parish is bounded on the west by the sea, and on the north by the estuaries of the Wampool and the Waver. The church was mostly rebuilt in 1606, the greater part of the old edifice having been destroyed by fire. The Society of Friends have a meeting-house at Beck-foot. At Newton-Arlosh are the ruins of an ancient chapel, said to have been once the parochial church.

Lewis, Samuel A., ''A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 530-533. Date accessed: 09 July 2013.''

Civil Registration
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Church records
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Probate records
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851 *Vision of Britain