Carlisle Christ Church, Cumberland Genealogy

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

Parish History
CARLISLE is comprised within the two parishes of St. Mary and St. Cuthbert. There are two district churches, namely, Holy Trinity, in the parish of St. Mary, and Christ Church, in that of St. Cuthbert. There are meeting-houses for Baptists, the Society of Friends, Independents, Wesleyans, Presbyterians and Roman Catholics.

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
Carlisle Christ Church 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.

Church of England Parishes (and Chapelries):


 * Carisle St Cuthbert - ancient parish - 1663
 * Carlisle Christ Church - 1830
 * Upperby Chapel - 1846
 * Carlisle St Mary - ancient parish - 1648
 * Carlisle Holy Trinity - 1831
 * St James Chapelry - 1863
 * St Paul Chapelry - 1870
 * Wreay Chapelry - 1750

Non-Conformist Churches
The following non-Church of England denominations were located somewhere in Carlisle, but the exact parish has not been identified:


 * Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
 * Presbyterian
 * Society of Friends/Quaker

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