Brathay, Lancashire Genealogy

Guide to Brathay, Lancashire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: chapelry register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Chapelry History
BRATHAY, a chapelry in Hawkshead parish, Lancashire; on Brathay river and Windermere lake, 2 miles SW of Ambleside, and 7½ by road from Windermere railway station. Post Town, Ambleside, under Windermere. It was constituted in 1853. The scenery around Brathay-Bridge, taken in connection with its perspectives, is surpassingly rich. The church is a recent erection, on a wooded knoll, in the neighborhood of Brathay Bridge.

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

 * 1538 - 1910 at FamilySearch — index

Online Records
 Church of England 

Brathay chapelry's registers of christenings, marriages and burials, along with those of the ancient parish of Hawkshead to which it is attached, have been mostly transcribed and are displayed online at the following web sites and ranges of years:

For a full list of all those chapels surrounding Brathay and comprising the whole ancient parish of Hawkshead to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the HAWKSHEAD PARISH page.

Non-Conformist Churches

 * 1647-1996 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)

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.

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
Brathay in Hawkshead on GENUKI