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Bigrigg, St.Johns
Calderbridge, St.Bridget
Cleator Moor, St.John
Cockermouth, Christchurch
Eskdale Green, St.Bega
Frizington, St.Paul
Haverigg, St.Luke
Millom, St.George
Seascale, St.Cuthberts
Whitehaven, St.Peters
Whitehaven, St.Andrews
Workington, St.Marys

Arlecdon
Beckermet - see St.Bridgets & St.Johns
Bootle
Brigham

Cleator
Clifton (1822)
Cockermouth - All Saints (1221)
Cockermouth - Christ Church
Corney
Dean
Distington
Drigg (1170)
Frizington
Egremont
Gosforth
Haile
Harrington
Irton
Lamplugh
Millom - Holy Trinity

Moresby
Muncaster
Ponsonby
St.Bees - Baptisms
St.Bees - Marriages

St.Bridgets - Beckermet
St.Johns - Beckermet
Waberthwaite
Whicham
Whitbeck

Whitehaven - Christ Church (1845)
Whitehaven - Holy Trinity (1715)
Whitehaven - St.James (1753)
Whitehaven - St.Nicholas (1694)

Workington - St.John (1824)

The table on the top of this page shows the Parishes found within the boundaries of the Deanery of Copeland along with their outlying Chapelries.

The table on the bottom of this page shows those modern Copeland parishes that have been introduced since 1842.

The large parishes of Brigham, Millom and St.Bees developed a group of district Chapelries (Chapels of Ease) in their outlying areas so as to cut down the long distances that their parishioners had to travel to attend the major occasions both in their families lives as well as the church calendar.

Note that Copeland contained the one Extra Parochial District of Salter & Eskatt.

The date given in brackets after the church name is the year that this church was opened / consecrated.

The time periods shown in the column BTs / IGI show the years that the Bishops Transcripts (BTs) of the parish registers are available in the Record Offices. These papers were the source of the majority of the data to be found within the Copeland IGI found on the Mormon familysearch.org web site. These dates are only given as a guide for family history researchers. A full listing of parishes and the dates covered by their registers can be found in ‘Cumbrian Ancestors’ published by the Cumbria Archive Service.

In general the original Copeland registers are at Whitehaven and the BT’s are held at Carlisle - but there are exceptions