Penrith, Cumberland Genealogy

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

Parish History
PENRITH (St. Andrew), a market-town and parish, and the head of a union, in Leath ward, E. division of Cumberland, 18 miles (S. E. by S.) from Carlisle, and 283 (N. N. W.) from London. There are places of worship for Wesleyans, the Society of Friends, Independents, Primitive Methodists, and Scottish Seceders.

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

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Non-Conformist Churches

 * Independent/Congregational - Ebenezer Chapel Births and baptisms, 1815-1837
 * Primitive Methodist - Penrith Circuit Church records, 1856-1900
 * Roman Catholic - Births and baptisms, 1833-1838
 * Society of Friends/Quaker - Penrith Monthly Meeting Register of burials, 1865-1873 and Births, marriages, and burials of the Monthly Meeting of Strickland in the counties of Westmorland and Cumberland, 1653-1837
 * Presbyterian Church -Presbyterian Church Rowcliffe Lane Church records, 1751-1877
 * Wesleyan Methodist - Penrith Circuit Church records, 1839-1913
 * Wesleyan - Sandgate Chapel Births and baptisms, 1814-1837

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
Penrith on GENUKI