Lancashire

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Lancashire

County town: Lancaster

Other major towns: Liverpool, Manchester, Bolton

In the North West of England, its boundaries to the west is the Irish Sea and to the East, the Pennines and Yorkshire. It takes its name from the city of Lancaster where the infamous Pendle Witches stood trail in 1612 at Lancaster Castle. Formerly a centre for cotton manufacture, the traditional crafts along with its 'dark satanic mills' have been replaced by more modern and varied industries.

Children's author Beatrix Potter lived on the county's northern border at Hill Top Farm, near Sawrey, until her death in 1943.

The county has undergone numerous changes over the years.

A summary of these can be found here.

As part of the UKBMD volunteer project, the county of Lancashire has searchable bmd index direct links to online certificate ordering from the Lancs Registation District main office at Preston.

To order a certificate you need to find the entry in the Lancs bmd index and use the local index reference number

Full details including the bmd index and link to certificate orders at: The Lancashire Registration District

Register Offices

Now centralised through the following office

Lancashire Registration District
Certificate Services
Quayside Court
Chain Caul Way
Preston
PR2 2ZP

Tel 01772 326881

Record Office Lookup Requests

Please read the Terms and Conditions before requesting a lookup.

By requesting a lookup you are agreeing to the Terms and Conditions as linked above.

Record Office Lookup Contacts

• Manchester Parish Records. BMD's & Burials. Pat Hope

• Manchester Archives & Oldham.Jemima Puddleduck

• Manchester Archives Chimleys-66 (Deb)

• Wirral Lovettpod (Helen)

• Stockport Library Jemima Puddleduck

Cemetery Lookup Requests

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Cemetery Lookup Contacts

• Aigburth:garstonite
• Allerton (references needed):garstonite
• All Souls RC Cemetery:Patience of Pendle
• Anfield: Lovettpod (Helen)
• St. Lawrence, Longridge:Katkin Bluebell
• Garston:garstonite
• Hunts cross:garstonite
• Halewood:garstonite
• Little Marsden, St Paul's:Patience of Pendle
• Manchester Southern Cemetery:Jemima Puddleduck
• Mossley hill:garstonite
• Oldham area:Jemima Puddleduck
• Southport:Clematised
• Speke:garstonite
• Weaste Cemetery, Salford (references needed please) :Chimleys-66 (Deb) or Jennebel
• Woolton:garstonite

Links

• Library Links

• Lancashire Certificates Online

• Lancashire BMD

• RootsChat Lancashire Board

• Lancashire Parish Portal

Local History Society

• Local History Gateway Page

• Lancashire Family History Societies

OPC

• Lancashire OnLine Parish Clerk Project

Archives

• IGI Lancashire A-K

• IGI Lancashire L-O

• IGI Lancashire P-Z

• Preston

• The Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire

• North east Lancashire surname list

• Baptisms at St Austin's R.C. Church, Grassendale, Garston 1856-1882

Family and social history

• Lancashire Surname List

• Lancashire Workhouses

• Lancashire Will Search

• CEMSEARCH-uk Your Lancashire Family History and Lancashire Family Tree Research

• Lancashire lantern - Lancashire life and times e-resource network

• Walton Gaol -list of inmates and staff 1881

Maps & Photographs

• Liverpool images, views, photographs,

• Lancashire County Council: Environment Directorate: Old Maps

• East Lancashire Photographs

• Lancashire County Council - MARIO - Maps And Related Information Online

• Photographs of Liverpool

• A Directory of 18th and 19th Century Liverpool Photographers Useful for dating old photos

Countywide interest

• Lancashire Village Websites and rural Lancashire information links

• The Salford Hundred Towships Covers the Parishes of Ashton under Lyne, Bolton, Bury, Deane, Eccles, Flixton, Manchester, Middlewich, Prestwich cum Oldham, Radcliffe Rochdale and Wigan

• Lancashire surnames interest list

Specific Town Village interest (Also See Liverpool and Manchester , below)

• Local history & heritage Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council

• Bolton Revisited - Family History - Message Board

• Bolton and Bury Treasures in Trust

• Bury Genealogy pages

• Crosten Village Genealogy page

• Tony Foster's Pages on Darwen and Blackburn

• Gisburn Village Genealogy and History

• Great Harwood

• Genealogy in Darwen & Blackburn

• Hesketh Bank and Tarleton Genealogy and History page

• St Chad's Church, Kirkby Includes Memorial Inscriptions and Burial Records

• Knowsley Local History Pages

• Birch Families of Oldham in the 19th Century

• Todmorden and Walsden Genealogy Includes some Parish Records

• Wigan site for Wiganers - Wigan's No 1 Website

• Internment.Net

• Wigan Leisure and Culture Trust

Manchester

• Burial Records Search

• Manchester past and present

• Manchester History Pages

• Greater Manchester

• Manchester City Council: Libraries: Family History

• Manchester Executions

• Burial Records Search

• Manchester

• Manchester's Victorian Textiles, Spinning & Weaving Mills in Manchester

• Salford City Council Forum

• Salford Roots

Liverpool

• Old LiverpoolOld liverpool snippets and Miscellany

• Irish Family History Research in the Liverpool Area

• Liverpool streetnames < not currently availible

• Liverpool Genealogy Home Page

• Liverpool

• Liverpool Newspapers Online

• Liverpool Cemetery

• Liverpool Ancestors

• St Chads- Kirkby

• Index To Liverpool Registers

• Old Mersey Times

• Do you know what was in Liverpool?

• Births, Marriages and Obituaries published in the Liverpool Mercury

• Liverpool Poll Book 1832

• Toxteth Park Cemetery

• Liverpool Murders

• Little Crosby Church

• Todmorden And Walsden Site

• Barnoldswick's Community Website

• Spinning the Web

• Milnrow Village Site

• War Memorial Site

• FamilyHistoryOnline

• St Matthews Burials, Highfield

• Barton Wesleyan Chapel Burials

• Cottontown

• Toxteth.net - excellent history of Toxteth Park, lots of photos, maps etc Extracts from Liverpool Mercury Newspapers

• Liverpool Marriages and Obitituaries 1811-1908

• RHS Bibliography - search menu

Royal Historical Society`s bibliography...use the full search facility, then " place index " for a list of publications about the area you`re interested in. E.g. entering `Bolton` brought up this wonderfully titled book.... 'No hard-brimmed hats or hat-pins please" : Bolton women cotton-workers and the game of rounders, 1911-39'

• Knowsley Local History , Its People & its Heritage

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