Cumbrian PeopleFinder

As the surnames with more than 2000 references, would give a very long output table, you can limit the display to individuals whose first name begins with a certain letter.

The indexed information is usually as given in the original record, so you may have to scroll down to find variations of a forename. Fot instance, Joseph may be given as Joseph, Jo, Joe, Jos... or even as just J. 

As the original records came from such different sources, there may be inconsistency of formatting but normally where a first name is not give or illegible in a record, it should be indicated by ? Indecipherable surnames are indicated by an X as the first or only letter..

As it is such a large collection of records, your first look-up may take up to 10 seconds, subsequent ones will take one or two seconds. 

For the best experience, use a PC, rather than a hand-held device.  But if you do use an Android phone, please use incognito mode  to ensure that  you see the correctly filtered results set.

But note that there may be additional surname variants of your desired name not grouped by the algorithm that you will have look for manually.

The surname variants are listed after the "primary" surname. The primary name is is the version with the most occurrences. The secondary names are listed in order of decreasing frequency.
To save scrolling, once you have opened up the surname listing for a given letter, you can jump directly to a name of interest using control-F, then searching for it. Similarly, you can use this same technique, if your target name of interest has been treated as a "variant".

The results table is sorted first by forename, then by year, then by record type. Variants aren't separated. Thus all John CLARKs and John CLARKEs will appear together for the same year.

Acknowledgement and thanks to Peter Bowes for the design and implementation of the surname grouping feature [if you wish to know more about the methodology, please enquire via webmaster@cumbriafhs.com or if you have any specific suggestions for improvements]