Cleator, Cumberland Family History Guide
Cleator is an Ancient Parish in the county of Cumberland.
Other places in the parish include: Cleator Lane End and Cleater Moor.
Alternative names: Cleater
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1572
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1689
Nonconformists include: Roman Catholic, Unitarian and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
CLEATOR, three villages and a parish in White-haven district, Cumberland.
The villages are Cleator, Cleator Moor, and Cleator-Lane-End; the first stands on the river Eden, 4 miles SE by S of Whitehaven; the others are within a mile of this; all three have post offices under Whitehaven, that of Cleator Moor with; and Cleator Moor has likewise a station on a branch line of 2 miles, called the Cleator branch of the Whitehaven and Egremont railway.
The parish comprises 2,844 acres. Real property, £29,387; of which £23,201 are in mines, and £900 in iron-works. Pop., 3,995. Houses, 637. The property is much subdivided. The Flosh, adjacent to Cleator village, is the seat of T. Ainsworth. Esq. There are two factories, and extensive collieries and ironworks.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Carlisle. Value, £79. Patron, the Earl of Lonsdale. The church is tolerable; and there are chapels for Wesleyans, Unitarians, and Roman Catholics.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
FamilySearch
Census
Census returns for Cleator, 1841-1891
Church Records
Church records, 1888-1934 Author: Wesleyan Methodist Chapel (Cleator, Cumberland)
Computer printout of Cleator, Cumb., Eng
Cemeteries
History
Cleator and Cleator Moor : past and present. seventy illustrations Author: Caine, Caesar
Directories
Kelly’s Directory of the Leather Trades 1880
CLEATOR MOOR
Boot & Shoe Makers & Dealers
Hindley Chas Ennerdale road
McCaffery John 9 High street
Quirk Mrs Mary 31 Ennerdale rd
Scott Alexander 4 High street
Webb John Moor lane
Boot & Shoe Thread Manufactr
Ainsworth Thos. Cleator mills; warehouses, 17 Lawrence lane Cheapside London Ec 4; Portland street Manchester; & 36 Deichstrasse Hamburg
Clog & Patten Makers
Hindley Chas Ennerdale road
Holmes James 12 High street
Milfull Thos 63 Leconfield st
Quirk Mrs Mary 31 Ennerdale rd
Saddler & Harness Maker
Jackson Wm Ennerdale road
Administration
- County: Cumberland
- Civil Registration District: Whitehaven
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Richmond Western Deaneries – Copeland
- Diocese: Carlisle
- Rural Deanery: Copeland
- Poor Law Union: Whitehaven
- Hundred: Allerdale above Derwent Ward
- Province: York