Curious to find out more about your family history? Your house? Your town or village? Your industrial history?
Cumbria Archive Service has Record Offices in Barrow, Carlisle, Kendal and Whitehaven and can help you discover the answers to many of your questions!
It cares for parish registers, other church records, wills, electoral registers, maps and plans, poor law records, title deeds, and photographs. The archives of many families, businesses, local authorities, solicitors, societies and schools are also deposited in its Record Offices.
See our new online catalogue to many documents in our custody
For technical reasons we are currently unable to receive many emails sent from freemail accounts (eg Yahoomail and Hotmail). Please take a note of an alternate contact method. We apologise for the inconvience this may cause you.
All Cumbria Record Offices are closed on the following three days: Monday 5 May, Monday 26 and Tuesday 27 May 2008 for public and county council holidays.
