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Guide to Cumberland ancestry, family history and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, parish registers, and military records. Cumberland, England Online Genealogy Records Ask the FamilySearch Community

County Information
"CUMBERLAND, a maritime and border county bounded on the N by the Solway frith and Scotland, on the E by Northumberland and Durham, on the SE and S by Westmoreland and Lancashire, and on the W by the Irish sea...

"The county contains 106 parishes and 5 extra-parochial places... eighteen towns are market-towns; and there are upwards of 340 smaller towns, villages, and hamlets... in the diocese of Carlisle. The assizes and the quarter sessions are held at Carlisle...

"The places of worship in 1851 were 161 of the Church of England, 2 of the Church of Scotland, 5 of the English Presbyterian church, 10 of the United Presbyterian church, 24 of Independents, 9 of Baptists, 20 of Quakers, 1 of Unitarians, 96 of Wesleyan Methodists, 23  of Primitive Methodists, 17 of the Wesleyan Association, 2 of Brethren, 7 of isolated congregations, 4 of Latter Day Saints, and 8 of Roman Catholics...  (John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72).  For the full account, go to Vision of Britain.)

Parishes
Use an interactive mapto find jurisdictions for each parish in Cumberland.

Municipalities
The following municipalities contain more than one parish. Beckermet Carlisle Silloth Whitehaven Workington
 * Beckermet St Bridget
 * Beckermet St John
 * Carlisle Christ Church
 * Carlisle Holy Trinity
 * Carlisle St Cuthbert
 * Carlisle St Mary
 * Silloth Christ Church
 * Silloth St Paul
 * Whitehaven Holy Trinity
 * Whitehaven St James
 * Whitehaven St Nicholas
 * Workington St Michael
 * Workington St John

Civil Registration Districts
UK BMD: List of Cumberland Civil Registration Districts

Websites

 * Online Genealogical Index
 * RootsChat.com: [http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?board=8.0 RootsChat Cumberland Resources and help pages
 * Certificates and Online Documents 1837
 * Cumberland & Westmorland Online Parish Clerks