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.

Church Records
St. Nicholas Church, Whitehaven

Bishop's transcriptsSt. Nicholas' Old Chapel Church, Whitehaven., 1705-1881

Online Records
Some online transcriptions exist for this chapelry and the ancient parish of St Bees to which it was attached, at the following website[s] and ranges of years:

Question – when do the registers actually begin? On the page for Computer Printouts for Whitehaven, St. Nicholas it states that the births and christenings begin in 1696, another filming begins in 1698, yet the published records by Stout appear to start in 1694? Check actual beginnings. Same questions exist for beginning of the marriages? Also note apparent gap in marriage registers from 1810 to 1814 (what are actual dates? Are there other gaps?)

Non-Conformist Churches

 * 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