Addingham, Cumberland Genealogy
Guide to Addingham, Cumberland ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Addingham, Cumberland | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Leath |
| County | Cumberland |
| Poor Law Union | Penrith |
| Registration District | Penrith |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1601 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1660 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Allerdale |
| Diocese | Carlisle |
| Province | York |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Bishop of Carlisle (Episcopal Consistory) |
| Location of Archive | |
| Cumberland Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History
ADDINGHAM (St. Michael), a parish, in the union of Penrith, Leath ward, E. division of Cumberland, 1½ mile (S. E.) from Kirk-Oswald. There are places of worship for Independents and Wesleyans.[1]
Resources
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 for Addingham, 1601-1978 at the FHL
Bishop's transcripts for Addingham, 1662-1866 at the FHL
Non-Conformist Churches
- Independent/Congregational
- Wesleyan Methodist
Census records
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
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.
Websites
Addingham on GENUKI
References
- ↑ Samuel A. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848) Date accessed and adapted 18 July 2013.
