Mount Pleasant, Cumberland Family History Guide

Mount Pleasant is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Cumberland, created in 1845 from St Bees Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Preston Quarter.

Alternative names: Whitehaven Christ Church

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers: 1848
• Bishop’s Transcripts: None

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

• Moresby
• Whitehaven St Nicholas
• St Bees
• Whitehaven Holy Trinity
• Hensingham
• Whitehaven St James

Parish History

See also Whitehaven St Nicholas, Cumberland Family History Guide

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

A church-district named Mount-Pleasant was endowed in 1845 by the Ecclesiastical Commission: its church, dedicated to Christ, was consecrated in September 1847. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the gift of the Crown and the Bishop of the diocese, alternately; income, £150.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Administration

• County: Cumberland
• Civil Registration District: Whitehaven
• Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Carlisle (Episcopal Consistory)
• Diocese: Carlisle
• Rural Deanery: Copeland
• Poor Law Union: Whitehaven
• Hundred: Allerdale above Derwent Ward
• Province: York