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This record contains transcriptions from  1721 to 2016
The parish comprises Aikton, Biglands, Gamelsby, Wampool and Wiggonby and is in the rural district of Wigton, Allerdale Ward.
This record contains approximately 1385 names and the CD contains the PDF of the transcriptions as well as an Excel file with all names

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The download is a facsimile copy of the original book. Whilst it has been optically scanned and is searchable 100% accuracy can not be guaranteed

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Contains map of churchyard as well as photographs of gravestones.

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Rydal was added to this download later, if you purchased the CD/download without Rydal or purchase the CD now then contact the Webmaster for a free upgrade.

There are actually no burials or gravestones at Rydal as the chruch is on rock and all burials will be at Grasmere or Ambleside but there are some commemerative panels in the church.

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Over 300 memorial inscriptions from as early as the 17th century though mainly mid 1700's to early 1900's with a name and place index. A churchyard map is provided for information, this has been created from a map provided by the church warden, but the plot numbers do not agree with numbers on the transcription, as it has not yet been possible to cross check all the information.

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270 memorials plus details of 48 memorial that are in Bellasis done 1874 which were no longer there in 2000. Name Index. Mainly 19th Century but a few earlier and some in the early 20th Century.

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164 Inscriptions late 18th to mid 20th centuries with name and place index.

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About 200 headstones mainly 19th century  with a few 18th and early 20th century.

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166 external headstones and 15 internal memorials spanning 1725 to 1972. Note like all MI transcripts not all memorials will be there or totally legible, this is a best effort at transscription from the notes of Jeremy Godwin.

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Over 90 memorials mainly the latter part of the 19th and early 20th century but with a few 18th century as far back as 1747. Includes name and place indexes. There is a note that the churchyard was cleared in 1970 and many stones were tipped into a quarry.

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Over 70 inscriptions pre 1901. Also includes Grange in Borrowdale, Rosthwaite and Buttermere which do not have churchyard burials but do have a few inscriptions in the churches.

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Over 230 Memorial Inscriptions mainly from the 1800's though there are a few from the 1700's the earliest being 1745 and some from the 1900's mainly the early decades but the last being 1999. There are a few inscriptions in the interior from the 17th century. Includes full name index and place name index. South Stainmore does not have a graveyard only has a few interior monuments.

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59 Memorials from 1714 to as late as 1992 with index of people and places.

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THE MEMORIAL INSCRIPTIONS OF ST. OSWALD’S CHURCH BURNESIDE ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST’S CHURCH SKELSMERGH
Also Kendal All Hallows; Holy Trinity (surname index only); St. George’s; St. Thomas’s; Unitarian Chapel; Scotch Burial Ground & Society of Friends

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Over 200 Memorials, earliest 1716 latest 2021.

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St Leonard's Cleator over 190 Memorials in the old and new churchyards and in the church  mainly 19th century but with the odd late 18th and early 20th century. With list of clergy and church wardens and map of churchyard. Haile 91 headstones with list of clergy and map of churchyard.

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Over 70 headstones mainly 19th century, very few prior to 1800 and a few early 20th century.

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About 250 entries which are a compilation of the transcript of the notes of Jeremy Godwin, plus further information from Bellasis and updates taken more recently. Includes some memorial photographs, name index, place index, burial index 1870-1901 and plan of churchyard.

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THE MEMORIAL INSCRIPTIONS OF ST. CATHERINE’S CHURCH CROOK ALL SAINTS CHURCH UNDERBARROW ST. JOHN’S CHURCH HELSINGTON

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Over 100 monumental inscriptions from the mid 18th to the late 20th century though the majority 19th century. Together with person and place indexes.

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Over 230 Memorial Transcriptions mainly of the 18th and 19th century which start 1723 but the majority are in the 1800's with some in the 1900's and even a few in the 21's century, though many of the monuments after 2000 have not been documented. There is a name index, place index and occupation index.

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Over 200 MI's mainly 19th century with a few late 17th or early 20th century stones, unfortunately quite a few are illegible in areas due to age. There is an index of surnames, index of places and index of selected subjects.

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About 176 Memorials 1713 - 1975, bear in mind not all burials for that period will have a headstone, some may never have had one and some may have gone missing over the years.

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Crosthwaite and Lyth New Churchyard over 183 memorials mainly 20th century. Old Churchyard over 60 memorials 19th century. Winster over 90 memorials early 19th to late 20th century.

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Over 600 Memorial Inscriptions including surname index.

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Over 190 entries with index of names and places. One entry as early as 1695 but most are from the 1790's through to the 1920's and a few in the later 1900's.

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THE MEMORIAL INSCRIPTIONS OF ST. CUTHBERT’S CHURCH DUFTON AND ST MARGARET & ST JAMES CHURCH LONG MARTON

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MI Transcriptions with surname indexes and church plans as well as associated extracts from local newspapers.

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‘NEW’ SECTION SUPPLEMENT TO THE MEMORIAL INSCRIPTIONS OF ST. MARY’S CHURCH, GOSFORTH

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St. Mary's Gosforth, St. Pauls Irton and St. Peters Drigg, 222 pages includes Plans and Indexes.

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Over 80 memorial inscriptions late 18th to mid 20th century. With person and place index.

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Over 350 inscriptions from 1734 to 2022 with surname index, place name index and full name index together with appendix of news stories from the area.

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About 200 memorial inscriptions mainly from the 19th century, but some from the latter part of the 18th century and some from the early 20th century.

Complete with index of surnames and index of place names.

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14 MI's from mid 19th to 20th century, with Index. Names include Ashworth, Bateman, Crabtree, Garnett, Kirkby, Martin, Robinson, Swainson

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A transcription of the notes of Jeremy Godwin from 2000. Includes name index and some photographs of gravestones. Earliest circa 1737 through to mid 20th Century.

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THE MEMORIAL INSCRIPTIONS OF SAINT PETER’S CHURCH HEVERSHAM

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Note that Warwick Bridge, St. Wilfrid has only one grave as all pre 20th century gravestones have been cleared from the churchyard

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About 140 memorials with name index and place index. Mid 1700's to early 1900's

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St James 80 inscriptions from mid 19th century to early 20th century. Old Church 56 inscriptions 1720 to mid 19th century. Both churches have name and place indexes.

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105 gravestones with thumbnail images and a list of additional memorials in the churchyard. Mainly mid 1800 (Church built 1868) to mid 1900 for gravestones though up to 2021 for addional memorials. Index of names and places. Register of burials 1868 to 1994.

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About 370 memorial inscriptions mainly from the second half of the 19th century and the early 20th century. Includes surname index. There is an addition of around 144 mainly post 1900 gravestones though this is not indexed.

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About 3353 memorial inscriptions with outline map of church (note details grave position are not marked) and a surname index. This also contains relevant press reports from the time giving further details about each memorial as well as press extracts about the parish. From the 1750's to 2017

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THE MEMORIAL INSCRIPTIONS OF ST. MARY THE VIRGIN KIRKBY LONSDALE

With Church and Churchyard Plan

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Over 100 Monumental Inscriptions mainly back to the mid 18th century but a few especially inside the church back to the 14th century. Additional notes from Winton School.

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Over 30 memorial inscriptions from the mid 19th century to the early 20th.

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THE MEMORIAL INSCRIPTIONS OF KIRKBY THORE, MILBURN, NEWBIGGIN and TEMPLE SOWERBY Volume 6

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The download is a PDF copy of the printed book which is no longer available. This is basically photographs of each page that have been assembled into a PDF and then optically scanned so they can be searched, though as the scanning has not been 100% checked all words may not be found.

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Technically Knarsdale is in Northumberland but has been included in this 'Epitaphs of Eden' project.

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Technically in Northumberland but has been included as part of the 'Epitaphs of Eden' project

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Lazonby some 190 headstones mainly later 1800's but with some from the late 1700's. Langwathby about 130 headstones mainly later 1800's and early 1900's but a few late 1700's. Edenhall about 230 headstones 1800's and early 1900's with a few late 1700's. Gt. Slakeld about 160 headstones mainly 1800's with a few late 1700's and some early 1900's

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Over 200 memorial inscriptions with name index and place index as well as references to Find A Grave.

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Over 60 Monumental inscriptions from about 1817 including men and their families who died during the construction of the Settle to Carlisle railway in the 1870's.

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This is not the original graveyard at Mardale which is now under Haweswater, but the re-interred graveyard next to Shap.

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About 45 memorials with name index and place index. Mainly 19th century

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Also has Addenda for Croglin, Cumrew, Edenhall, Gamblesby, Kirkoswald and Renwick. Volume 4

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THE MEMORIAL INSCRIPTIONS OF ST. LAURENCE’S, MORLAND, ALL SAINTS, BOLTON, ST. BARNABAS, GT. STRICKLAND, & ST. MARY’S, THRIMBY

Note this is included in the Cliburn Compilation CD/Download.

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Over 100 inscriptions mainly 20th Century with some early 21st Century, there are one or two late 1890's. With index of people and places.

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THE MEMORIAL INSCRIPTIONS OF ST. MARK’S CHURCH NATLAND ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCH OLD HUTTON ST. STEPHEN’S CHURCH NEW HUTTON

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108 memorials with Name and Places index and Find a Grave cross references.

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Approx 180 memorials. With name index and places index. Mainly 19th century but some 18th and 20th.

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Approx 70 memorial inscriptions dating from the 17th century though most from the 19th century onwards with many 20th century. There is an alphabetical index of names and of places.

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Over 100 headstones 19th and early 20th century.

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Records start in 1872 when the cemetery was opened, there are over 4600 records in the document which goes up to 1995. Includes surname index and outline map

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Penrith Churches; St. Andrew (over 150 headstones from mid 1700's into 19th Century), Christ Church (over 230 memorials 1850 to early 20th century), War Memorial, Salvation Army, Wordsworth Street Methodist , Lowther Street United Reform Church and Friends Quakers (40 memorials late 19th and 20th century). Note the churches where no numbers are given have only one or two memorials either a war memorial or that of a prominent person.

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33 Penruddock memorials from 1773 but mainly later 19th century into 20th century, plus list of ministers and name index. Mungrisedale 4 internal brasses there do not appear to be any external burials 1783/1868/1925/1973 they appear to be more post burial memorials than burials.

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Over 180 memorials including headstones and cremation memorials with name indexes and maps. A map of the churchyard has been included but at present the plot numbers on the map do not match those in the transcription. Dates range from late 1700's to late 1900's.

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The Memorial Inscriptions of St. Patrick’s Church, Preston Patrick, Holy Trinity Church, Holme, The Society of Friends Burial Grounds at Preston Patrick and Preston Richard

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This is not in the format of the normal MI's, it is a list of all the known Quaker Burial grounds in Cumbria and where it has been possible to access them a list of names ages and dates. There are very few headstones prior to 1850 as prior to then they were considered a 'vain custom'.

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Over 200 memorial inscriptions from the 17th to 20th century though mainly 18th and early 19th century. Includes a surname index as well a list of monumental masons and one of places. Inlcudes an outline map of the churchyard showning the locations of the gravestones.

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Over 170 memorial inscriptions mainly 19th century with a few 18th century earliest 1714 and some 20th century mainly early but some as late as 1999. Also includes index of people and index of places.

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Approx 150 inscriptions plus name index, place index and photographs.

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Transcribed details of approx 230 grave stones in both the old and new churchyards with index of surnames and place names with maps of the churchyards.

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Approx 1812 to 1983

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Over 200 memorials with Name and Place index. Earliest 1701 but very few in 18th century, most in 19th with some early 20th.

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25 Memorial Inscriptions mainly late 19th/early 20th century.

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198 Inscriptions with Name index and cross reference to Find a Grave

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Over 40 inscriptions 18th to 20th Centuries. With name , subject and place index.

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Approx 1821 - 1980

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Over 90 memorials, earliest 1756 but few 18th century mainly 19th century with some early 20th.

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Transcription of over 200 gravestones. Includes name index.

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78 Pages including indexes. Earliest Memorial 1736 but very few from the 1700's mainly from the beginning of the 1800's through to the late 1900's. This is an updated version from the one previous available and includes a few photos and outline sketch map of locations.

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About 200 memorials from the mid 18th century to the late 20th century, with surname index.

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SCOTCH STREET, WHITEHAVEN, CUMBRIA

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Over 280 entries mainly mid 18th to mid 19th century. With name index.

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40 Inscriptions with Name and Places index and cross reference to Find a Grave.

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