Historical Searches

There is an upward trend for people trying to trace their ancestors and many of their investigations can take place with Bereavement Services.

All cremations and burials are recorded on computer and retained forever. We have over 78,000 cremations, 125,000 burials and over 75,000 graves on record.

Bereavement Services can find information on the deceased so long as we have the full name of the deceased and the actual date of death (there is no charge for this search). If the actual date of death is not known then we would require an approximate period i.e. 1890's, 1930's etc.  For this search a minimum charge of £13.50 is required.

Information we can issue is as follows:

  • Place of death
  • Home address at the time of death
  • Age at death
  • Date of burial or cremation
  • For burial the grave number if it was a purchased or un-purchased grave, if purchased then details of whoever else is buried there
  • For a cremation what happened to the cremated remains i.e. removed, buried in a grave, buried in the gardens of remembrance or strewn in the woods

Contact Bereavement Services

Please use our online form below, visit or write to us at

Bereavement Services
Richardson Street,
Carlisle,
CA2 6AL

Tracing your ancestors

If you want to trace your family tree, we have lots of helpful advice in our life events section. See Tracing your family.


Electronic forms

Electronic forms can be completed and submitted online, with no paper involved, which is not only our preferred method; it's kinder to the environment as well.

Cumbria County CouncilDirect.Gov
Allerdale Borough Council logoEden District Council logo

Contact us

 01228 817000

Carlisle City Council
Civic Centre, Carlisle, Cumbria,
CA3 8QG