Crosthwaite, Cumberland Genealogy

Guide to Crosthwaite, Cumberland ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
CROSTHWAITE (St. Kentigern), a parish, in the union of Cockermouth, Allerdale ward below Derwent, W. division of Cumberland, ½ a mile (N. by W.) from Keswick. The following chapelries lay within the ancient parish boundary, including:

1) Borrowdale – 1775

2) Castlerigg St Johns in the Vale – 1718

3) Grange – 1861

4) Keswick – 1839

5) Newlands – 1699

6) Thornthwaite –  1776

7) Wythburn - 1777

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
parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Records on microfilm

Parish registers for Crosthwaite, 1566-1934 at the FHL

Bishop's transcripts for Crosthwaite, 1669-1890 at the FHL

Parish registers for Chapelry St. John's-in-the-Vale, 1776-1981 at the FHL

Bishop's transcripts for Chapelry St. John's-in-the-Vale, 1775-1889 at the FHL

Parish registers for Chapelry Grange, 1879-1977 at the FHL

Bishop's transcripts for Chapelry Grange, 1861-1866 at the FHL

Non-Conformist Churches

 * Society of Friends/Quaker
 * Wesleyan Methodist

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
Crosthwaite on GENUKI