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Crosby Garrett

Old undated map showing location of parish by William Mackenzie, scanned by Sarah Reveley. Click for full version of whole county (n.b. 700KB to download).Crosby Garrett is a split parish in the East Ward of the county
adjacent to Asby, Warcop, Great Musgrave, Brough, Soulby, Kirkby Stephen, Ravenstonedale and Orton.

The name Crosby might be derived from dwelling by the cross.






Cemeteries

Monumental inscriptions were transcribed in Monumental Inscriptions of Westmorland by E. Bellasis 1888-89 and are available on Westmorland Papers.

Census

No returns survive for the 'census' of 1787.

Census returns are available from the usual sources for 1841-1901.

Transcript and index for 1851 has been published by the Cumbria Family History Society and also in 'North Westmorland - An Index to the 1851 Census' compiled by David Lowis and Barbara Slack.

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Church History

St Andrew. Cruciform church with N & S aisles.
Of many periods, including Saxon opening and Norman arcade.
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 picture of St Luke's Church, Crosby Garrett (c) Lynne Hullock

Church Records

The parish records and BTs are held at the Kendal Record Office of Cumbria Archives Service. The Record Office reference is WPR48

Baptism registers [1569]-1973
Marriage registers 1559-1930
Banns registers -
Burial registers 1559-1973
Bishops transcripts 1662-1871

For searching on www.familysearch.org see Jake Prescott's list of IGI batch numbers.

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Directories

The details for the parish from the Parson & White's Directory for 1829 are transcribed on Edenlinks site.

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History

"Crosby-Gerard, the Lordship and Estate of Roger Lord Clifford 4th, of which he died possessed 13 Rich. II. And left it to his Son and Heir Thomas, with many large Estates, of which Crosseby-Rundewyth was at the same Time a Part."

Magna Britannica et Hibernia.Volume 6: Westmorland by Thomas Cox (Vicar of Bromfield, Essex) 45 pages, printed in 1731.
Transcription by Sarah Reveley,  Joan Fisher and Lisl Schoenwald. (Rootsweb Westmorland Listmembers)  (c)  2003Return to top of page

Maps

A present-day web map is available from Multimap.

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Population

1641/2 340(est)
1671 170(est)
1801 245
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Probate Records

Crosby Garrett is in the diocese of Carlisle and wills will be in Carlisle Record Office.

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Last updated: March 2006 Dave Huddart