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Cumbria Family History Society

We are pleased to be working in partnership with the Cumbria Family History Society.

Cumbria Family History Society was founded in October 1976 to help Cumbrians and people with Cumbrian ancestry to carry out their family history research. Our area of interest is the modern county of Cumbria, which consists of the whole of the pre-1974 counties of Cumberland and Westmorland together with the part of Lancashire lying to the north of Morecambe Bay (North Lonsdale) and the West Riding parish of Sedbergh. Our membership comes not only from Cumbria and other parts of the British Isles, but from Australia, Canada, Europe, New Zealand and the United States - in fact world-wide.

Gravestones in a churchyard

Cumberland & Lancashire Burial Records

Thanks to contributions from the Cumbria Family History Society, you can now discover over 80,000 burial records from across Cumberland and Lancashire between 1650 and 1952. Burial records are a wonderful resource for family history research and could be the key to adding previously undiscovered branches to your family tree.

Cumbria Family History Society have also made contributions to the National Burial Index for England & Wales.

Search the National Burial Index for England & Wales

More details from the society

Members with the same family interest get in touch with each other via our quarterly Newsletter, which is send by post or digitally to all our members. As well as research interest, the Newsletter carries contributed articles on all aspects of family history, including biographies of individuals; short family histories; record sources; tips on research; extracts from and transcripts of documents; information about record offices and other news items. The Editor welcomes articles of interest and any suggestions to help further the aims of the Society.

Members can advertise in the Newsletter for help in their researches, for new members the limit is 100 words and name and address.

The Society’s publishing programme does not end with the Newsletter. It includes, indexes to probate, marriage licenses and tax records; transcripts of parish registers, monumental inscriptions and the 1851 census.

We have a large team of transcribers working together under the supervision of the Transcription Officer, who organises transcription projects for parish records, monumental inscriptions and census returns, and make the ensuing publications available for sale.

Details of new publications are given in the Newsletter and a full list is available on our website.

If you are interested in Cumbrian Family History, we hope that you will join us.

Meeting Details

There are no regular meetings, however the Society holds meetings and seminars from time to time, Zoom events and talks are also available and these are advertised on the website. Regular events are the Spring conference at Seascale, Summer meeting to be announced, and the Autumn conference at Crooklands.