Whitehaven St Nicholas, Cumberland Genealogy

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

Parish History
WHITEHAVEN, a sea-port, market-town, newly enfranchised borough, and the head of a union, in the parish of St. Bees, Allerdale ward above Derwent, W. division of Cumberland, 40 miles (S. W.) from Carlisle. Whitehaven contains four chapels: St. James, St. Nicholas, Holy Trinity and Mount Pleasant. There are places of worship for Presbyterians, Particular Baptists, the Society of Friends, Independents, Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists, and Roman Catholics.

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Church Records
The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor. Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

Church of England
Due to the increasing access of online records: Hover over the collection's title for more information Other Websites These databases have incomplete parish coverage.
 * Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
 * Dates in the following table are approximate
 * Archdeaconry of Richmond, England, Church of England Marriage Bonds, 1611-1861 at Ancestry – index & images ($)
 * Joiner Marriage Index - Cumberland ($)
 * The Genealogist Parish Registers - Cumberland ($)
 * UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records
 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)
 * Baptists
 * Christians
 * Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
 * Church of Scotland/Scottish Presbyterian - Scots Presbyterian Church St. James Baptisms, 1756-1858
 * Countess of Huntingdon Methodist
 * Independent Methodist
 * Presbyterian Church in England - Baptism transcripts, 1750-1893
 * Primitive Methodist - Church records, 1839-1882
 * Roman Catholic
 * Society of Friends/Quaker - Society of Friends. Whitehaven Preparative Meeting Marriages, births and baptisms, 1679-1832
 * United Presbyterian Church of Scotland - Carlisle Presbytery Church records for Carlisle United Presbytery, 1847-1876
 * Wesleyan Methodist - Wesleyan Methodist Chapel. Hogarth Mission Church records, 1899-1952 Wesleyan Methodist Chapel Moor-Row Church records, 1888-1957Wesleyan Methodist Chapel Cleator-Moor Church records, 1879-1932

Whitehaven Circuit Church records, 1806-1937

Wesleyan Methodist Chapel Michael Street Church records, 1804-1816


 * Wesleyan Methodist Association
 * Wesleyan - Michael Street Chapel Births and baptisms, 1806-1837
 * Independent -Baptisms, 1789-1836; burials, 1823-1833
 * Bible Christian Church. Millom and Dalton Circuit (Lancashire) - Church records, 1870-1891
 * Scots Presbyterian Church. - St. James Baptisms, 1756-1858

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. Two popular sites are:


 * FreeBMD
 * CumberlandBMD

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
Whitehaven on GENUKI