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Guide to Gosforth, Cumberland ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
Gosforth, Cumberland | |
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Type | Ancient Parish |
Civil Jurisdictions | |
Hundred | Allerdale above Derwent |
County | Cumberland |
Poor Law Union | Whitehaven |
Registration District | Whitehaven |
Records begin | |
Parish registers: 1571 | |
Bishop's Transcripts: 1676 | |
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
Rural Deanery | Copeland |
Diocese | Carlisle |
Province | York |
Legal Jurisdictions | |
Probate Court | Court of the Archdeaconry of Richmond Western Deaneries - Copeland |
Location of Archive | |
Cumberland Record Office | |
Parish History[edit | edit source]
GOSFORTH (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Whitehaven, Allerdale ward above Derwent, W. division of Cumberland, 6¾ miles (S. E.) from Egremont.[1]
Resources[edit | edit source]
Find Neighboring Parishes[edit | edit source]
Use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map
- Type the name of the parish in the search bar
- Click on the location pin on the map
- Choose Options from the pop up box
- Click "List Contiguous Parishes" to find the neighboring parishes
Cemeteries[edit | edit source]
- Monumental inscriptions, Gosforth [Cumberland, St. Mary's](*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
- Gosforth [Cumberland, St. Mary's [monumental inscriptions]](*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day.
- See England Civil Registration for online resources and information.
Church Records[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
Due to the increasing access of online records:
- Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
- Dates in the following table are approximate
Hover over the collection's title for more information
Gosforth Online Parish Records | ||||||
FamilySearch Collections-Cumberland | ||||||
Parish Registers-Cumberland | ||||||
Bishop's Transcripts - FamilySearch Catalog | ||||||
FreeREG | ||||||
Findmypast-Cumberland ($) | ||||||
Ancestry-England & Wales, Birth, Christening, Marriage and Death Indexes-Cumberland ($) | ||||||
Databases with Known Incomplete Parish Coverage | ||||||
Boyd's Marriage Indexes-FMP (Free) | ||||||
National Burial Index-FMP (Free) |
Other Websites
These databases have incomplete parish coverage.
- England, Northumberland, Cumberland, Durham, Miscellaneous Records (FamilySearch) - free
- Archdeaconry of Richmond, England, Church of England Marriage Bonds, 1611-1861 at Ancestry – index & images ($)
- Joiner Marriage Index - Cumberland ($)
- The Genealogist Parish Registers - Cumberland ($)
- UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
- Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records
Nonconformist Records[edit | edit source]
"Nonconformist" is a term referring to religious denominations other than an established or state church. In England, the state church is the Church of England.
- 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at Findmypast ($), index and images; coverage may vary
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Census Records[edit | edit source]
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 FamilySearch Center or at the FamilySearch Library.
Probate Records[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites[edit | edit source]
Gosforth on GENUKI
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Samuel A. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848) Date accessed and adapted 30 July 2013.