Cartmel, Lancashire Genealogy

Guide to Cartmel, Lancashire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records. See also Cartmel Fell, a chapel of ease serving the Winster Valley in Cartmel Parish. For researchers, see a comprehensive List of Chapelries in Cartmel Parish.

Parish History
CARTMEL (St. Mary), a parish and market town in the union of Ulverston, hundred of Lonsdale north of the Sands, N. division of the county of Lancaster. Other places in the parish include: Lower Holker, Lower Allithwaite, Newton in Cartmel, Upper Allithwaite, Upper Holker, and East Plain.

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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.

Lancashire Online Parish Clerks
An extremely useful resource for research in Lancashire Parishes http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/

Church Records


The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor. Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

Church of England
Chapelry is a church or churches built in a large ecclesiastical parish to help the members attend worship services closer to their homes.

Non-Conformist Churches

 * 1647-1996 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)

Poor Law Unions
Ulverston Poor Law Union,Lancashire

Probate Records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Lancashire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Taxation

 * 1665-1667 - Lancashire Hearth Tax: Lonsdale Hundred, Allithwaite. E 179/132/352, The National Archives. Microfilm:.
 * 1665-1667 - Lancashire Hearth Tax: Lonsdale Hundred, Holker upper end. E 179/132/352, The National Archives. Microfilm:.
 * 1665-1667 - Lancashire Hearth Tax: Lonsdale Hundred, Holker lower end. E 179/132/352, The National Archives. Microfilm:.
 * 1665-1667 - Lancashire Hearth Tax: Lonsdale Hundred, Staveley in Cartmell. E 179/132/352, The National Archives. Microfilm:.
 * 1665-1667 - Lancashire Hearth Tax: Lonsdale Hundred, Allithwaite lower end. E 179/132/352, The National Archives. Microfilm:.

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
Cartmel on GENUKI