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Cumberland Genealogy

 
Description

"A maritime and border county of England , having the counties of Dumfries and Roxburgh on the north, Northumberland and Durham on the east, Westmorland and Lancashire on the south, the Irish Sea on the west, and the Solway Firth on the NW.; length, NE. and SW., 75 miles; extreme breadth, E. and W., 45 miles; average breadth, 22 miles; coast line, about 75 miles; area, 970,161 acres, population 250,647."
from Bartholemew's Gazetteer of the British Isles, 1887

Genuki - Cumberland
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Neighbouring Counties
 
Durham, Dumfrieshire, Lancashire, Northumberland, Roxburghshire, Westmorland
Cumberland GenWeb
maintained by volunteers in an effort to help researchers
find local resources and reference information
Archives and Libraries
 
Cumbria Archive Service Cumbria Libraries
Cumberland Lookup Exchange
request free lookups of censuses, parish registers
held by individual volunteers
Local Genealogy Societies & Groups
Cyndi's List - Cumberland
largest private collection
of genealogy links on the web
 
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Genealogy Record Sources

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Directories
huge resource by University of Leicester; of local and trade directories from 1750 to 1919
Probate
27,500 records including baptisms/christenings,
burials, marriages, tombstone inscriptions, obituaries, tax lists and wills
Surname Lists
Cumberland Surname List
provides surnames being researched and email address of researcher
Births, Deaths, Marriages
search over 100 million UK births, deaths and marriages
Message Boards
post and read about Cumberland genealogy with other researchers
Cemeteries

Parish Registers

free internet searches of baptism, marriage, and burial records,
which have been transcribed from parish and non-conformist church registers
War Memorials
Roll-of-Honour - Cumberland
Cumberland war memorials and rolls of honour
 
UK Electoral Rolls
search over 100 million people in UK electoral rolls
Censuses
 
1841-1891 Census transcriptions by volunteers
 
 
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