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The first parish registers of the Chapelry of Martindale start at 1633 A.D. and has been transcribed by Henry Brierley and privately published in 1907. This is a rare book as only 25 were ever printed. One is at Carlisle County Record Office, another at the Society of Genealogists in London and one more at Manchester Central Library. A photocopy is available at Kendal County Record Office. It includes Baptisms 1633-1853, Burials 1683-1904 and Marriages 1636-1871 [gap between 1808 & 1813]. It should be noted however that many Martindale folk were married at the mother church, Barton Parish Church, [possibly a status matter] but especially between 1807 and 1866 when there were NO weddings at Martindale. The I.G.I. only covers the period 1749-1875 for Baptisms [batch no. C056041] and 1759-1881 for Marriages [batch no. M056041]. The I.G.I. gets it’s information from the Bishops Transcripts which are at Carlisle County Record Office and has a number of inaccuracies especially as to year where mistakenly the year which the transcript was submitted is given instead of the previous year when the event actually took place. There are also gaps due to loss of BT for the years 1755, 1756, 1764, 1773, 1775, 1784, 1795, 1798, 1801 and 1825. The old church of St Martin built around 1633, from which date the registers begin, still exists and is used for worship once a month during the summer months. The ‘new ‘ larger church of St Peter was dedicated in 1880.