Cartmel Fell, Lancashire Genealogy

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Chapel History
St Anthony's Church was built in 1504 as a chapel of ease to serve the local farming community in the parish of Cartmel Priory, and situated in the Winster valley. See also Cartmel, Lancashire and List of Chapelries in Cartmel Parish.

Created as a chapel of ease from, and lying within the boundaries of Cartmel Ancient Parish by 1754.

Cartmel Fell is a hill in the South Lake District, since 1974 in Cumbria, England. It is also the name given to the hamlet situated at the base of the fell and the civil parish that includes it. The modern parish is in the Diocese of Carlisle.

"CARTMEL-FELL, St Anthony, a chapelry, in the parish of Cartmel, union of Ulverston, hundred of Lonsdale north of the Sands, N. division of the county of Lancaster, 8 miles west by southwest of Kendal. It is situated on the borders of Westmorland, and on the Winster river."

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.

Lancashire Online Parish Clerks
An extremely useful resource for research in Lancashire Parishes http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/

Online Records
 Church of England 

Cartmel-Fell chapelry's registers of christenings, marriages and burials, along with those of the ancient parish of Cartmel 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 Cartmel-Fell and comprising the whole ancient parish of Cartmel to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the CARTMEL PARISH page.

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.

Maps and Gazetteers
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