Maryport, Cumberland Genealogy

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

Chapelry History
MARYPORT, a chapelry, market-town, and seaport, in the parish of Cross-Cannonby, union of Cockermouth, Allerdale ward below Derwent, W. division of Cumberland, 30 miles (S. W. by W.) from Carlisle. There are places of worship for Baptists, Burghers, the Society of Friends, Presbyterians, and Wesleyans.

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
Bishop's transcripts for Maryport, 1761-1866

Non-Conformist Churches

 * Church of Scotland/Scottish Presbyterian
 * Independent/Congregationa
 * Particular Baptist- High Street Chapel Baptist Births, 1797-1836
 * Presbyterian - Church records for the Crosby Street Presbyterian Chapel, Maryport, 1832-1867
 * Primitive Methodist
 * Roman Catholic
 * Scotch Baptist
 * Society of Friends/Quaker
 * United Presbyterian Church of Scotland - Baptisms, 1765-1837 &amp; Church records for Carlisle United Presbytery, 1847-1876 United Presbyterian Church
 * Wesleyan Methodist - Wesleyan Methodist Chapel Church records, 1854-1920; Maryport Circuit

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
Maryport on GENUKI