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"HOLME-CULTRAM, (or Abbey Holme), a parish in the ward of Allerdale-below-Derwent, county Cumberland, 6 miles N.W. of Wigton, 9 N.E. of Aspatria, and 15 E. of Maryport. Abbey Holme is its post town. It is a station on the Carlisle and Silloth Bay railway. The parish is bounded on the W. by the Irish Sea, and on the N. by the estuaries of the Wampool and the Waver. It is very extensive, comprising above 22,000 acres, and includes the townships of Holme Abbey, Holme East Waver, Holme Low, and Holme St. Cuthbert." [Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
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| Congregational Church, Silloth, Congregational |
| Esk Street, Silloth, Methodist |
| Methodist Church, Holm Cultram, Methodist |
| Trinity Methodist Church, Silloth, Methodist |
| Silloth, Presbyterian |
| Our Lady of the Assumption, Silloth, Roman Catholic |
The original records and bishops transcripts are held in Carlisle RO, but readers can only access registers on microfilm.
The reference number links to the CASCAT catalogue listing for all church records for the parish.
| Parish | Church | CASCAT ref | Baptisms | Marriages | Burials | Banns | BTs | IGI Batches | Research Wiki |
| Holme Cultram | St Mary | 1581-1975 | 1581-1988 | 1581-1993 | 1754-1983 | 1663-1871 | |||
| Holme Cultram | St Cuthbert | 1850-1994 | 1850-1990 | 1850-1993 | 1850-1889 | ||||
| Newton Arlosh | 1849-1878 | 1850-1994 | 1850-1927 | 1875-1997 | 1850-1856 | ||||
| Silloth | Christ Church | 1872-1980 | 1872-1989 | 1872-1955 | |||||
| Silloth | St Paul | 1849-1922 | 1850-1997 | 1850-1944 | 1850-1991 | 1850-1872 |
IGI batch numbers are those compiled by Hugh Wallis on Rootsweb (Hugh Wallis) that can be used to search directly in FamilySearch.
Alternatively try the Archers Software interface.
Transcriptions of the parish Bishops Transcripts are available from the archived Cumberland Roots website.
There are holdings of non-conformist records.
| Parish | Church | Baptisms | Marriages | Burials |
| Mawbray | Wesleyan Methodist | 1901-1960: 1978 | ||
| Beckfoot (Holm) | Society of Friends | 1849-1927 birth notes | 1828-1964 | |
| Holm | Society of Friends | 1776-1957 | 1777-1962 | 1776-1959 |
| Holm | Society of Friends | 1894-1987 | 1943-1984 | |
| Silloth | Other non-conformist | 1877-1916: 1929-1946 | 1906-1915; 1929- 1937 | |
| Silloth | Primitive Methodist | 1912-1937 |
The FamilySearch Research Wiki page also indicates coverage on other resources, including paying and subscription access genealogical platforms.
- The transcription of the section for Holm Cultram from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Holm Cultram to another place.
The Holme St Cuthbert Local History Group's website: Solway Plain - Past & Present (archived copy) contains much of interest to Family Historians
Manor of Holm Cultram - 4 tenancy records are transcribed by Carl Pearson and are hosted on Fred Mantey's website,
and available and indexed on Madasafish, specifically:
View a map of the boundaries of this town/parish.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference NY177508 (Lat/Lon: 54.845218, -3.283165), Holm Cultram which are provided by:
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- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Old Maps Online
- National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.