Wigton, Cumberland Genealogy

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

Township History
WIGTON (St. Mary), a market-town and parish, and the head of a union, in the ward, and E. division of the county, of Cumberland; it contains the townships of Oulton, Waverton, and Woodside-Quarter. Of the early history of this place little is recorded. 

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 Wigton, 1604-1952

Bishop's transcripts Wigton, 1663-1879

Non-Conformist Churches

 * Baptist
 * Independent/Congregational - Baptisms, 1823-1836 and burials, 1835-1836
 * Primitive Methodist - Church records, 1868-1963
 * Roman Catholic
 * Society of Friends/Quaker
 * United Presbyterian Church of Scotland - Church records for Carlisle United Presbytery, 1847-1876
 * Wesleyan Methodist - Church records, 1838-1902
 * Wesleyan - Births and baptisms, 1824-1837

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
Wigton on GENUKI