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 Formerly a centre for cotton manufacture, the traditional crafts along with its 'dark satanic mills' have been replaced by more modern and varied industries.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

• About Lancs - Lancashire Link List

• Cemsearch - Burial Records and some other Databases

• Lancashire Census

• Lancashire Deeds 1667-1811

• Lancashire GenWeb

• Lancashire Genealogy:Cemeteries

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

• Lancashire Surname List

• Lancashire Village Websites and Rural Lancashire Information Links

• Lancashire Will Search

• Merseyside Genealogy & History Forum

• Merseyside Cemeteries

• North East Lancashire surname list

• 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

• Spinning the Web - the Story of the Lancashire Cotton Industry

• 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

• Ashton-under-Lyne Marriages 1594-1720

• Historical Extracts from the Ashton-under-Lyne Reporter

• Bacuptimes - Bacup & Stackstead

• Barnoldswick's Community Website

• Old Barlick, a History of Barnoldswick

• Barrowford and Pendle

• Barton Banter

• Barton Wesleyan Chapel Burials

• Local History & Heritage Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council

• Cotton Town - History of Blackburn with Darwen

• Bolton

• Bolton Revisited

• Boothstown

• The Briercliffe Society

• Broadbottom Village May 09

• Burnage Heritage

• Burnley in the Great War

• Bury Genealogy pages

• Old Clitheroe April 09

• 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

• Great Harwood

• Greenhalgh Village

• St Matthews, Highfield - Parish Registers

• Hesketh Bank and Tarleton Genealogy and History page

• Hurst

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

• Knowsley Local History Pages

• Lancaster and Morcambe Family History

• Little Crosby Census and Parish Records May 09

• Milnrow Village Site

• Mossley

• Newton-le-Willows & Earlestown

• Birch Families of Oldham in the 19th Century

• Rochdale Cemetery

• Sabden Heritage

• Simister in the Twenties & Thirties

• The Parish of Speke including All Saints Church Speke Burial Records up to 2000

• Summerseat

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

• Tameside Family History

• Todmorden and Walsden Genealogy includes some Parish Records

• Todmorden And Walsden

• A Brief History of Trawden

• Wardle 2000

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

• Wigan Leisure and Culture Trust

Manchester

• Burial Records Search

• Greater Manchester County Record Office

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

• Manchester

• Manchester & Lancashire Family History Society

• Manchester City Council: Libraries: Family History

• Manchester Executions

• Manchester History Pages

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

• Salford City Council Forum

• Salford Roots

Liverpool

• 18th Century Poll Books

• Anfield Cemetery

• Do you know what was in Liverpool?

• Great Crosby - St Faith's Church, Baptisms 1900-1999

• Indexes to Liverpool Registers

• Irish Family History Research in the Liverpool Area

• Knowsley Local History, Its People & its Heritage

• Links to Birth/Baptism Indices in the Liverpool Area

• Links to Liverpool Cemeteries and Burial Sites

• Liverpool & SW Lancashire Family History Society

• Liverpool Ancestors

• Liverpool Murders

• Liverpool Poll Book 1832

• Liverpool Postcode Areas

• Liverpool Schools

• Little Crosby Church

• Map of Liverpool Postcode Areas

• Old Liverpool - Snippets from Old Liverpool Newspapers and Other Sources

• Old Mersey Times

• Ron's Liverpool Pages

• Scottie Press Online - Covering the Scotland Road/Vauxhall Area of Liverpool

• Toxteth

• Toxteth Park Cemetery

• Toxteth Park Cemetery Indexes

• Walton Gaol - List of Inmates and Staff 1881

• Woolton - St Peter's Church

Maps and Photographs

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

• East Lancashire Photographs

• Lancashire County Council: Environment Directorate: Old Maps

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

• Liverpool Images, Views, Photographs

• Manchester Local Image Collection

• Photographs of Old Lancashire

• Photographs of Salford, Manchester and the Surrounding Area

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 & Archive 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 & Archive Lookup Contacts

• Liverpool Records Office garstonite

• Manchester Archives & Oldham jemima puddleduck

• Manchester Archives Chimleys-66 (Deb)

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

• Manchester Records Office Pat Hope

• 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
• Knowsley saba saba
• Little Marsden, St Paul's Patience of Pendle
• Mossley hill garstonite
• Oldham area jemima puddleduck
• Southport clematised
• Speke garstonite
• Weaste Cemetery, Salford 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

• South Liverpool & City Centre garstonite

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