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Location of parish on undated map by William Mackenzie, scanned by Sarah Reveley.mackenzie map

Crosscrake is a parish in Kendal Ward. 

It was formerly part of Heversham parish. Neighbouring parishes include Natland, Levens, Preston Patrick and Old Hutton.

  

Census

Returns do not survive for the 'census' of 1787.

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

Church History

St Thomas. 1875 Paley & Austin.

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Church Records

Baptism registers 1755-1905The parish records and Bishop' Transcripts are held at the Kendal Record Office
 of Cumbria Archives Service.
The Record Office reference is WPR65.
There will be microfilm copies at Carlisle Record Office.

For searching on www.familysearch.org see Jake Prescott's list of IGI batch numbers.
Marriage registers 1860-1979
Banns registers 1949-1978
Burial registers 1824-1911
Bishops transcripts 1825-1869

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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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Probate Records

Wills for Crosscrake will be at Carlisle since about 1858 but before that will be at the Preston R.O. as it was in the Diocese of Chester until that time.

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Last updated: Jan 2012 Dave Huddart