Lancashire

In the North West of England, its boundary 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 trial 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 Formerly a centre for cotton manufacture, the traditional crafts along with its 'dark satanic mills' have been replaced by more modern and varied industries.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 boundary changes over the years. A summary of these can be found here. County town: Lancaster Other major towns: Liverpool, Manchester, Bolton Lancashire Places of Worship Regional projects Forum

Source: Wikipedia

Resources

Primary Reference

• Lancashire Record Office

• Lancashire Library and Information Service

• Lancashire BMD

• Lancashire Parish Portal

• Lancashire Family History Societies

• Lancashire OnLine Parish Clerk Project

• Lancashire Look-up Exchange

• Parish Register UK Look-up Exchange

Countywide Interest

• Abitoflancashirehistory

• About Lancs - Lancashire Link List

• Cemsearch - Burial Records and some other Databases

• Lancashire Census

• Lancashire Deeds 1667-1811

• Lancashire GenWeb

• Lancashire Lantern - Lancashire Life and Times e-Resource Network

• Parish the Thought - Some Online Parish Records

• Lancashire Surname List

• Lancashire Village Websites and Rural Lancashire Information Links

• Lancashire Will Search

• Merseyside Genealogy & History Forum

• North East Lancashire surname list

• University of Central Lancashire -Institute of Local and Family History includes Probate Index for Western Deaneries of the Archdeaconry of Richmond, 1748-1858

• RootsChat Lancashire Board

• 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

• Tameside History Forum - covers Ashton, Audenshaw, Denton, Droylsden, Hyde, Longendale, Mossley and Stalybridge

• The Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire

Specific Town and Village Interest (Also see Liverpool and Manchester below)

• Accrington Pals -the 11th (Service) Battalion (Accrington) East Lancashire Regiment

• Local History of Ashton-under-Lyne

• Historical Extracts from the Ashton-under-Lyne Reporter

• Bacuptimes - Bacup & Stackstead

• Barnoldswick's Community Website

• Barrowford and Pendle

• Local History & Heritage Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council

• Cotton Town - History of Blackburn with Darwen

• Bolton

• Bolton and Bury Treasures in Trust

• Boothstown

• The Briercliffe Society

• Burnage Heritage

• Burnley in the Great War

• Bury Genealogy pages

• Crosten Village Genealogy page

• St Michael's and All Angels Church, Dalton

• Tony Foster's Pages on Darwen and Blackburn

• Denton Local History Society

• Gisburn Village Genealogy and History

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

• Great Harwood

• Hesketh Bank and Tarleton Genealogy and History page

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

• Knowsley Local History Pages

• Mossley

• Newton-le-Willows & Earlestown

• Birch Families of Oldham in the 19th Century

• Rochdale Cemetery

• Sabden Heritage

• Local & Family History in St Helens includes photographs, maps and downloads of church records

• Simister in the Twenties & Thirties

• All Saints Church Speke Burial Records up to 2000

• Tameside Local and Family History

• Todmorden and Walsden Genealogy Includes some Parish Records

• Walton Gaol - List of Inmates and Staff 1881

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

• Wigan Leisure and Culture Trust

Manchester

• Burial Records Search

• History & Heritage of the City and the Metropolitan County of Greater Manchester

• Manchester History Pages

• Greater Manchester County Record Office

• Manchester City Council: Libraries: Family History

• Manchester Executions

• Manchester & Lancashire Family History Society

• Manchester

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

• Salford City Council Forum

• Salford Roots

Liverpool

• Liverpool & SW Lancashire Family History Society

• Allerton Cemetery

• Some Liverpool Parish Records

• Old Liverpool snippets and Miscellany

• Irish Family History Research in the Liverpool Area

• Liverpool Genealogy Home Page

• Liverpool

• Ron's Liverpool Pages

• Liverpool Newspapers Online

• Liverpool Cemetery

• Links to Liverpool Cemeteries and Burial Sites

• Links to Birth/Baptism Indices in the Liverpool Area

• Baptisms, St. Austin's RC Church, Grassendale, Garston, Liverpool, 1856-1882

• Liverpool Ancestors

• Liverpool Schools

• St Chads - Kirkby

• Index To Liverpool Registers

• Do you know what was in Liverpool?

• Births, Marriages and Obituaries from The Liverpool Mercury

• Liverpool Poll Book 1832

• Old Mersey Times

• Toxteth

• Toxteth Park Cemetery

• Liverpool Murders

• Little Crosby Church

• Todmorden And Walsden

• Spinning the Web

• Milnrow Village Site

• War Memorial Site

• Family History Online

• The Scotland Road/Vauxhall area of Liverpool

• The Vauxhall Area

• St Matthews Burials, Highfield

• Barton Wesleyan Chapel Burials

• Cottontown

• Toxteth.net - Toxteth Park, Extracts from Liverpool Mercury Newspapers

• Liverpool Marriages and Obitituaries 1811-1908

• Royal Historical Society's bibliography

• Knowsley Local History, Its People & its Heritage

• Liverpool Postcode Areas

• Map of Liverpool Postcode Areas

• 18th Century Poll Books

Maps and Photographs

• Lancashire County Council: Environment Directorate: Old Maps

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

• Liverpool Images, Views, Photographs

• Photographs of Old Lancashire

• East Lancashire Photographs

• Photographs of Liverpool

• Photographs of Salford, Manchester and the Surrounding Area

• Manchester Local Image Collection

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

Books of local interest

Register Office

• Lancashire Certificates Online

As part of the UKBMD volunteer project, the county of Lancashire has a searchable BMD Index. To order a certificate you need to find the entry in the The Lancashire BMD Index and use the local index reference number.

Now centralised through the following office:

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

Tel 01772 326881

Please note for events within the Blackburn, Blackpool and Manchester districts you will need to use one of the following links

Blackburn area copy certificate information can be found at Copy Certificates

Blackpool registrars have a useful FAQ section with links to copy certificate ordering information at Certificate FAQ Information

Manchester Registrars offer a full range of certificates along with PDF application forms at

• Certificate Information

• Manchester Registration Service

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 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

Please read the Terms and Conditions before requesting a lookup.

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

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
• Mossley hill garstonite
• Oldham area jemima puddleduck
• Southport clematised
• Speke garstonite
• Weaste Cemetery, Salford (references needed please) Chimleys-66 (Deb) or Jennebel
• Woolton garstonite

Photo Offers

Members that have offered to take photographs in particular areas. Please send a private message to the member with your queries.

• Southport and surrounding areas within a 5 to 10 mile radius clematised

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