Shelf Mark: WE
For an explanation of this information, please consult the Introduction and the list of Abbreviations. Recent additions to the Society's Library are listed in the Genealogists' Magazine. The staff of the Society are able to make limited searches in these County Sources for a standard fee. Shelf marks used in the library are given in square brackets at the very end of each title.
County-wide sources:
County wide sources for Christenings, Marriages and Burials include:
County sources at the Society of Genealogists: Cumberland, Durham, Northumberland [&] Westmorland parish registers, nonconformist registers, marriage licences. London: SoG, 2000 [ML enquiry counter] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.
National index of parish registers, vol. 10, part 3: Cumberland & Westmorland. London: SoG, 1999. [TB/PR] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.
Cumbria Archives Service: Church of England parish registers & BTs deposited at the Cumbria Record Offices (Carlisle, Kendal & Barrow) up to March 1986: Cumberland registers, vol. 2 [Typescript.] [CU/R 41]
Boyd’s marriage index 1538-c.1837 [Typescript]. [UK/REG] Most of this marriage index is also available on the The Origins Network website.
International Genealogical Index & addendum [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff] & available on-line at www.familysearch.org
British Vital Records Index [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff]
National Burial Index. 2nd edn. [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff]
RG 7 Fleet marriage register indexes [parishes, brides & grooms] [SP/REG]
Quaker digest registers of births, marriages & burials - Lancashire QM: Z 1644-1837 & 1635-1780, M 1652-1837 & 1652-1775, B 1654-1838 & 1654-1780 (includes Beetham, Great Langdale & Bridgend in Loughrigg, Westmorland) [Microfilm.] [Mf 3378]
Quaker digest registers of births, marriages & burials - Westmorland Quarterly Meeting: Z 1635-1837 & 1617-1823, M 1649-1836 & 1643-1817, B 1655-1837 & 1655-1827 [Microfilm.] [Mf 3379]
Marriage licences: abstracts & indexes in the Library of the Society of Genealogists. London: SoG, 1991. 4th edn. [ML enquiry counter] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.
Faculty Office marriage licences index 1701-1850 [Typescript.] [ML/FO] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at The Origins Network website.
Vicar-General marriage licences surname index 1694-1850 [Typescript.] [ML/VG] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at The Origins Network website
Diocese of Carlisle marriage licence/bonds, vols. 1-3: 1668-1762 [ML/CAR]
Marriage bonds for the Deaneries of Lonsdale, Kendal, Furness & Copeland, part of the Archdeaconry of Richmond, now preserved at Lancaster, 1648-1738, parts 1-5: Record Society of Lancashire & Cheshire, vols. 74, 75, 80, 81, 83 [LA/PER]
Marriage bonds of the Deaneries of Lonsdale, Kendal, Furness, Copeland, & Amounderness, part of the Archdeaconry of Richmond, now preserved at Preston, parts 6-7 1739-55: Record Society of Lancashire & Cheshire, vols. 100 & 115 [LA/PER]
Testamenta Eboracensia: a selection of wills from the Registry at York, parts 3-4 [abstracts 1395-1509, with a list of marriage licences & dispensations ...]: Surtees Society publications, vols. 45 & 53 [DU/PER]
County wide sources for tombstone inscriptions (MIs) include:
The monumental brasses of Cumberland & Westmorland: Monumental Brass Society county series, vol. 7 [CU/M 11]
In addition to free access from within the library to census returns and indexes on various subscription web sites, the Society holds many locally produced indexes. The latter are essential where an Internet index has mis-transcribed a name which you are looking for and for surviving pre-1841 censuses and census substitutes.
Search the on-line catalogue for the following Subject phrase:
WESTMORLAND - CENSUSES
Click on the green Go button and then on the subject term for the required census.
The Society’s collection is of national importance and includes county and local directories of residents and businesses and poll books and other lists of voters in parliamentary and local elections. Details, correct as of 1995, are published in:
Directories & poll books, including almanacs & electoral rolls, in the Library of the Society of Genealogists. SoG, 1995. 6th edn. [ML enquiry counters] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.
Or search the on-line catalogue for the following Subject phrase:
WESTMORLAND - DIRECTORIES
or WESTMORLAND - POLL BOOKS
Click on the green Go button and then on the subject term required.
The Society holds the journals of most English-speaking family history societies world-wide, the publications of county record societies and many national and local history societies past and present.
Search the on-line catalogue for the Title required
The Library contains film copies of indexes to wills proved 1858-1930 and indexes, calendars and many abstracts of wills proved by individual church courts before 1858. Details, correct as of 1996, are published in:
Will indexes & other probate material in the library of the Society of Genealogists. London: SoG, 1996 [WILLS/GEN] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.
Other major sources include:
An index to the wills proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury 1750-1800 [WILLS/PCC] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at The Origins Network website. An index to all PCC wills 1384-1858 is available on-line at The National Archives.
Estate Duty will indexes 1796-1857 (IR 27/1-323) [Microfilm] [Wills film cabinets] The Death Duty registers 1796-1903 are also on-line at www.findmypast.com (formerly 1837online)
An index to the Bank of England will extracts 1807-45 [WILLS/GEN] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at The Origins Network website.
For the most up-to-date list of will material in the library, do a Subject search on the on-line catalogue for the name of the church court eg. Biggleswade Peculiar Court
Or if you do not know the name of the church court:
Search the on-line catalogue for the following Subject phrase:
WESTMORLAND - GENERAL:WILLS
Click on the green Go button and then on the subject term required.
The Society has material on the following and other places in the county of Westmorland. For details please click on the link to the on-line catalogue and do a Subject search for the place name.
Ambleside | Appleby | Applethwaite or St Mary Windermere | Asby | Askham | Bampton | Barbon | Barton | Beetham | Bolton | Bridgend in Loughrigg | Brough under Stainmore | Brougham | Burneside | Burton in Kendal | Casterton | Cliburn | Clifton | Crook | Crosby Garrett | Crosby Ravensworth | Crossthwaite cum Lythe | Dufton | Firbank | Grasmere | Grayrigg | Helsington, New | Helsington, Old | Heversham | Holme | Hugill | Hutton, New | Hutton, Old | Hutton Roof | Kendal | Kentmere | Killington | Kirkby Lonsdale | Kirkby Stephen | Langdale, Great | Levens | Longsleddale | Lowther | Mallerstang | Mansergh | Mardale | Martindale | Marton, Long | Middleton in Lonsdale | Milburn | Morland | Natland | Newbiggen | Ormside | Orton | Patterdale | Preston Patrick | Preston Richard | Ravenstone Dale | Rydal | Selside | Shap | Sleddale, Long | Staveley | Temple Sowerby | Troutbeck | Underbarrow | Warcop | Windermere | Winster | Witherslack
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