Family History Notebook

Chapel of St. Catherine, Eskdale, Cumberland

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(Rebuilt 1881)

More information at this link.

Transcription of entries in the parish registers have now been moved to separate pages for

Baptisms
Marriages
Burials

since the download time for this page had become excessive.

#0    Some notes regarding the first register book on this linked page.

#1    Microfilm at Whitehaven Record Office

Baptisms, Marriages and Burials* 1625-1770 JAC406
Baptisms, Marriages and Burials 1770-1812 JAC406
Baptisms 1813-1870 JAC406
Marriages 1813-1837 JAC406
Marriages 1838-1910 JAC406
Marriages 1910-1937 JAC406
Burials 1813-1930 JAC407

*"Register Book of Eskdaille" Very difficult to read - but see references 2,3

#2    Typed transcript of the Registers of St Catherine's, Eskdale for the years 1630 - 1812, held at Whitehaven Record Office (No author or date)

#3    A transcription ... Neville Ramsden, Seascale . Viewed at Whitehaven Record Office

#4    IGI has indexed baptisms 1778 - 1871 and marriages 1778 - 1867

#5    FFHS National Burial Index 2nd Edition

Note: The extracts include, I believe, all the Nicholsons to 1900 and all the Hartleys and Sharpes to 1778.

Note 2: Joan Shrewsbury believes that in her early researches she found a church warden's notebook with some records that had not been transferred to the registers - but she could never find it again!