Kirkby Ireleth, Lancashire Genealogy

Guide to Kirkby Ireleth, Lancashire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Here is a List of Chapelries in Kirkby Ireleth Parish

Parish History
KIRKBY-IRELETH (St Cuthbert), a parish, in the union of Ulverston, hundred of Lonsdale north of the Sands, N. division of the county of Lancaster, 4½ miles northwest by west from Ulverston, and including separate chapels at Broughton in Furness, Lancashire, Seathwaite, and Woodland with Heathwaite, the township of Dunnerdale, the districts of Low-Quarter and Middle-Quarter, and the extra-parochial places of Waitham-Hill, Mosshouses, Marshfield, and Herdhouse. Since 1974 the Furness area is part of Cumbria (historically Lancashire). the Parish is within the Diocese of Carlisle. The parish is separated from that of Millom, in the county of Cumberland, by the river Duddon. Other places in the parish include: Beanthwaite, Beckside, Chapel, Cross Beck, Gill Beck, Soutergate, Kirkby Moor, Low Quarter, Lower Quarter, Middle Quarter, Sandside, and Grisebeck.

The modern name for Kirkby is Kirkby-in Furness. Kirkby-in-Furness is a village in the Furness area of Cumbria, England. It is about 5 km south of Broughton in Furness and 8 km northwest of Ulverston. It is one of the largest villages on the peninsula's north-western coast, looking out over the Duddon estuary and the mountains of the Lake District. Its borders are the biggest for a village in the UK.

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
Online Records
 * 1538 - 1910 at FamilySearch — index

Kirkby Ireleth St Cuthbert Parish registers have mostly been transcribed and posted online at the following web sites:

Original Records

Original copies of the parish registers for Kirkby Ireleth St Cuthbert are held at the Cumbria Record Office, 140 Duke Street, Barrow-In-Furness, LA14 1XW.

In addition, the Family History Library, at FamilySearch in Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A. also has microfilm copies of the originals and these may be circulated to any one of its 4,600 satellite FamilySearch Centres worldwide.

Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the FamilySearch Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

Poor Law Unions
Ulverston Poor Law Union,Lancashire

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Lancashire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Taxation

 * 1665-1667 - Lancashire Hearth Tax: Lonsdale Hundred, Kirkby Ireleth. E 179/132/352, The National Archives. Microfilm:.
 * 1665-1667 - Lancashire Hearth Tax: Lonsdale Hundred, Dunnerdale. E 179/132/352, The National Archives. Microfilm:.
 * 1665-1667 - Lancashire Hearth Tax: Lonsdale Hundred, Seathwaite. E 179/132/352, The National Archives. Microfilm:.

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain