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| − | |In the North West of England, its boundary to the west is the Irish Sea and to the east, the Pennines and Yorkshire.
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| − | It takes its name from the city of Lancaster where the infamous Pendle Witches stood trial in 1612 at Lancaster Castle.
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| − | Formerly a centre for cotton manufacture, the traditional crafts along with its 'dark satanic mills' have been replaced by more modern and varied industries.
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| − | Children's author Beatrix Potter lived on the county's northern border at Hill Top Farm, near Sawrey, until her death in 1943.
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| − | The county has undergone numerous boundary changes over the years.
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| − | A summary of these can be found [[Cheshire Changes|here]].
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| − | '''County town:''' Lancaster
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| − | '''Other major towns:''' Liverpool, Manchester, Bolton
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| − | '''[[Places_of_Worship:Lancashire | Lancashire Places of Worship]]'''
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| − | '''[http://www.familytreeforum.com/regional-projects/ Regional Projects Forum]'''
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| − | | [[Image: EnglandLancashire.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Source: Wikipedia]]
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| − | ==Resources==
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| − | '''Primary Reference'''
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| − | *[http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/education/record_office/ '''Lancashire Record Office''']
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| − | *[http://www.ffhs.org.uk/members2/england/eng-lancs.php Lancashire Family History Societies]
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| − | *[http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/libraries/ Lancashire Library and Information Service]
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| − | *[http://www.lancashirebmd.org.uk/ Lancashire BMD]
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| − | *[http://www.lancashireparishcouncils.gov.uk/parishes/index.asp Lancashire Parish Portal]
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| − | *[http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/ Lancashire OnLine Parish Clerk Project]
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| − | *[http://aztecrose.tripod.com/lancashire/index.htm Lancashire Look-up Exchange]
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| − | *[http://www.parishregisteruklook-upexchange.co.uk/parishregistershl.htm Parish Register UK Look-up Exchange]
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| − | '''Countywide Interest'''
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| − | *[http://www.aboutlancs.com/indgeneal.htm About Lancs - Lancashire Link List]
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| − | *[http://www.cemsearch.co.uk/index.html Cemsearch - Burial Records and some other Databases]
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| − | *[http://www.lancashirecensus.co.uk/census_online.htm Lancashire Census]
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| − | *[http://www.geocities.com/myjacobfamily/lancashiredeeds.html Lancashire Deeds 1667-1811]
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| − | *[http://www.rootsweb.com/~englan/ Lancashire GenWeb]
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| − | *[http://www.genealogylinks.net/uk/england/lancashire/lan-cemad.htm Lancashire Genealogy:Cemeteries]
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| − | *[http://www.lantern.lancashire.gov.uk/ Lancashire Lantern - Lancashire Life and Times e-Resource Network]
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| − | *[http://www.lancslist.com/lancslist Lancashire Surname List]
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| − | *[http://www.lancashirevillages.com/ Lancashire Village Websites and Rural Lancashire Information Links]
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| − | *[http://www.xmission.com/~nelsonb/lws.htm Lancashire Will Search]
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| − | *[http://genchatfriends.proboards39.com/ Merseyside Genealogy & History Forum]
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| − | *[http://www.liverpoolhome.com/Merseyside_Cemeteries/merseyside_cemeteries.htm Merseyside Cemeteries]
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| − | *[http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/board,233.0.html RootsChat Lancashire Board]
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| − | *[http://www.mancuniensis.info/ The Salford Hundred Towships]
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| − | *[http://www.spinningtheweb.org.uk/ Spinning the Web - the Story of the Lancashire Cotton Industry]
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| − | *[http://www.tamesidehistoryforum.org.uk/ Tameside History Forum - covers Ashton, Audenshaw, Denton, Droylsden, Hyde, Longendale, Mossley and Stalybridge]
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| − | *[http://www.gmcro.co.uk/guides/record_society/record_society.htm The Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire]
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| − | '''Specific Town and Village Interest''' (Also see '''Liverpool''' and '''Manchester''' below)
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| − | *[http://www.pals.org.uk/pals_e.htm Accrington Pals -the 11th (Service) Battalion (Accrington) East Lancashire Regiment]
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| − | *[http://www.ashton-under-lyne.com/history/index.htm Local History of Ashton-under-Lyne]
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| − | *[http://www.parish-thethought.us/ashulM1.doc Ashton-under-Lyne Marriages 1594-1720]
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| − | *[http://www.rhodesfamily.org.uk/yesterdays/index.html Historical Extracts from the Ashton-under-Lyne Reporter]
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| − | *[http://www.bacuptimes.co.uk/ Bacuptimes - Bacup & Stackstead ]
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| − | *[http://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk Barnoldswick's Community Website]
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| − | *[http://www.barrowford.org/index.html Barrowford and Pendle]
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| − | *[http://bartonbanter.multiply.com/ Barton Banter]
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| − | *[http://www.mancuniensis.info/BartonWesleyanChapel/BWCBFP.htm Barton Wesleyan Chapel Burials]
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| − | *[http://www.blackburn.gov.uk/server.php?show=nav.257 Local History & Heritage Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council]
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| − | *[http://www.cottontown.org/page.cfm?pageid=257 Cotton Town - History of Blackburn with Darwen]
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| − | *[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~boltongenealogy/ Bolton]
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| − | *[http://www.boltonrevisited.org.uk/ Bolton Revisited]
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| − | *[http://www.boothstown.com/ Boothstown]
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| − | *[http://www.briercliffesociety.co.uk/ The Briercliffe Society]
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| − | *[http://www.broadbottomvillage.com/ Broadbottom Village]
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| − | *[http://uk.geocities.com/burnageheritage/ Burnage Heritage]
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| − | *[http://burnleyinthegreatwar.info/ Burnley in the Great War]
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| − | *[http://www.oldclitheroe.co.uk/ Old Clitheroe]
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| − | *[http://www.croston-village.co.uk/main.html Crosten Village Genealogy page]
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| − | *[http://www.stmichaelsdalton.co.uk/ St Michael's and All Angels Church, Dalton]
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| − | *[http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/GAFOSTER/ Tony Foster's Pages on Darwen and Blackburn]
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| − | *[http://www.tamesidehistoryforum.org.uk/members.htm Denton Local History Society]
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| − | *[http://www.gisburn.org.uk/ Gisburn Village Genealogy and History]
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| − | *[http://www.great-harwood.org.uk Great Harwood ]
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| − | *[http://www.greenhalgh-web.co.uk/index.htm Greenhalgh Village]
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| − | *[http://www.stmatthewhighfield.org.uk/registers.html St Matthews, Highfield - Parish Registers]
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| − | *[http://www.heskethbank.com/genealogy.html Hesketh Bank and Tarleton Genealogy and History page]
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| − | *[http://www.certificates.fsnet.co.uk/homepage.htm Hurst]
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| − | *[http://www.stchadskirkby.110mb.com/ St Chad's Church, Kirkby ~ Includes Memorial Inscriptions and Burial Records]
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| − | *[http://history.knowsley.gov.uk/cronton.html Knowsley Local History Pages]
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| − | *[http://www.lancasterfamilyhistory.org.uk/ Lancaster and Morcambe Family History]
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| − | *[http://www.sunnyfields.freeserve.co.uk/church/ Little Crosby Census and Parish Records]
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| − | *[http://www.milnrow-village.freeserve.co.uk/ Milnrow Village Site]
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| − | *[http://www.mossley.net/ Mossley]
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| − | *[http://www.newton-le-willows.com/ Newton-le-Willows & Earlestown]
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| − | *[http://www.bbirch.plus.com/index.htm Birch Families of Oldham in the 19th Century]
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| − | *[http://www.interment.net/data/eng/lancashire/rochdale/rochdale.htm Rochdale Cemetery]
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| − | *[http://www.sabden.com/ Sabden Heritage]
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| − | *[http://simister.shibbs.co.uk/ Simister in the Twenties & Thirties]
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| − | *[http://southportworld.co.uk/stuff/towndirectory1825.php?opt=1825 Baines directory of Southport 1825]
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| − | *[http://www.spekeliverpool.co.uk/ The Parish of Speke including All Saints Church Speke Burial Records up to 2000]
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| − | *[http://summerseat.ourwardfamily.com/ Summerseat]
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| − | *[http://www.sthelens-connect.net/forums/index.php?showforum=244 Local & Family History in St Helens]
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| − | *[http://tamesidefamilyhistory.co.uk/ Tameside Family History]
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| − | *[http://www.todmordenandwalsden.co.uk/ Todmorden and Walsden Genealogy]
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| − | *[http://www.trawdenonline.co.uk/tlife/history/history.html A Brief History of Trawden]
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| − | *[http://wardle2000.homestead.com/ Wardle 2000]
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| − | *[http://www.wiganworld.co.uk Wigan site for Wiganers - Wigan's No 1 Website]
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| − | *[http://www.wlct.org/Culture/Heritage/archives.htm Wigan Leisure and Culture Trust]
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| − | ==Manchester==
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| − | *[http://www.burialrecords.manchester.gov.uk Burial Records Search]
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| − | *[http://www.gmcro.co.uk/ Greater Manchester County Record Office]
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| − | *[http://www.manchester2002-uk.com/history.html History & Heritage of the City and the Metropolitan County of Greater Manchester ]
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| − | *[http://www.victoriacross.org.uk/manchest.htm Manchester]
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| − | *[http://www.mlfhs.org.uk/ Manchester & Lancashire Family History Society]
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| − | *[http://www.manchester.gov.uk/libraries/arls/famhist.htm Manchester City Council: Libraries: Family History]
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| − | *[http://www.manchester-family-history-research.co.uk/ Manchester Family History Research]
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| − | *[http://www.manchester2002-uk.com/info/manchester-executions.html Manchester Executions]
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| − | *[http://uk.geocities.com/audreyhansca/MANCHESTER/ManMenu.html Manchester History Pages]
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| − | *[http://www.manchester2002-uk.com/history/victorian/mills.html Manchester's Victorian Textiles, Spinning & Weaving Mills in Manchester]
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| − | *[http://services.salford.gov.uk/heritage-forum/index.asp Salford City Council Forum]
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| − | *[http://www.salfordroots.com/page8.html Salford Roots]
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| − | ==Liverpool==
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| − | *[http://web.mac.com/keithjtinkler/iWeb/Liverpool18thCentury/PollBooks.html 18th Century Poll Books]
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| − | *[http://liverpoolcemetery.co.uk Anfield Cemetery]
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| − | *[http://www.whatwashere.com/ Do you know what was in Liverpool?]
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| − | *[http://www.stfaithsgreatcrosby.org.uk/Baptisms.pdf Great Crosby - St Faith's Church, Baptisms 1900-1999]
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| − | *[http://www.geocities.com/liverpoolregisters/ Indexes to Liverpool Registers]
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| − | *[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hibernia/ Irish Family History Research in the Liverpool Area]
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| − | *[http://history.knowsley.gov.uk/ Knowsley Local History, Its People & its Heritage]
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| − | *[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hibernia/bapt.htm Links to Birth/Baptism Indices in the Liverpool Area]
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| − | *[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hibernia/bur/lvcem.htm Links to Liverpool Cemeteries and Burial Sites]
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| − | *[http://www.liverpoolhistoryprojects.co.uk/index.htm Liverpool History Projects]
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| − | *[http://www.liverpool-genealogy.org.uk/ Liverpool & SW Lancashire Family History Society]
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| − | *[http://liverpool-ancestors.co.uk Liverpool Ancestors]
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| − | *[http://www.geocities.com/stevenhortonuk/liverpoolmurders.html Liverpool Murders]
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| − | *[http://www.liverpool-genealogy.org.uk/1832Pollbook/Pollbook1832.htm Liverpool Poll Book 1832]
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| − | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L_postcode_area Liverpool Postcode Areas]
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| − | *[http://www.liverpool-schools.co.uk/ Liverpool Schools]
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| − | *[http://www.sunnyfields.freeserve.co.uk/church/ Little Crosby Church]
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| − | *[http://www.tickfordmanagement.com/locations.html# Map of Liverpool Postcode Areas]
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| − | *[http://www.old-liverpool.co.uk/ Old Liverpool - Snippets from Old Liverpool Newspapers and Other Sources]
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| − | *[http://www.old-merseytimes.co.uk Old Mersey Times]
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| − | *[http://liverpolitan.im/main/early_years.htm Ron's Liverpool Pages]
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| − | *[http://www.scottiepress.org/main.htm Scottie Press Online - Covering the Scotland Road/Vauxhall Area of Liverpool]
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| − | *[http://www.toxteth.net/index.htm Toxteth]
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| − | *[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~toxtethparkcemetery/index.html Toxteth Park Cemetery]
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| − | *[http://www.toxtethparkcemetery.co.uk/ Toxteth Park Cemetery Indexes]
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| − | *[http://www.rootsweb.com/~engchs/WAL.html Walton Gaol - List of Inmates and Staff 1881]
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| − | *[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wooltonchurchyard/ Woolton - St Peter's Church]
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| − | '''Maps and Photographs'''
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| − | *[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~liverpoolphotographers/ A Directory of 18th and 19th Century Liverpool Photographers]
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| − | *[http://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/ East Lancashire Photographs]
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| − | *[http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/environment/oldmap/index.asp Lancashire County Council: Environment Directorate: Old Maps]
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| − | *[http://mario.lancashire.gov.uk/ Lancashire County Council - MARIO - Maps And Related Information Online]
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| − | *[http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/ Liverpool Images, Views, Photographs]
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| − | *[http://images.manchester.gov.uk/ Manchester Local Image Collection]
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| − | *[http://lanternimages.lancashire.gov.uk/ Photographs of Old Lancashire]
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| − | *[http://www.flickr.com/photos/23416534@N05/ Photographs of Salford, Manchester and the Surrounding Area]
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| − | *[http://southportworld.co.uk/photos/index.php Photos of Southport]
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| − | ==Register Office==
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| − | *[http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/environment/birthsmarriagesdeaths/certificates/ Lancashire Certificates Online]
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| − | As part of the UKBMD volunteer project, the county of Lancashire has a searchable BMD Index.
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| − | To order a certificate you need to find the entry in the [http://www.lancashirebmd.org.uk/lancashirerd.htm The Lancashire BMD Index] and use the local index reference number.
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| − | '''Now centralised through the following office:'''<br>
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| − | '''Lancashire Registration District'''<br>
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| − | Certificate Services<br>
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| − | Quayside Court<br>
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| − | Chain Caul Way<br>
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| − | Preston<br>
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| − | PR2 2ZP<br>
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| − | Tel 01772 326881<br>
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| − | '''Please note for events within the Blackburn, Blackpool and Manchester districts you will need to use one of the following links'''<br>
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| − | '''Blackburn''' area copy certificate information can be found at [http://www.blackburn.gov.uk/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.13953 Copy Certificates]<br>
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| − | '''Blackpool''' registrars have a useful FAQ section with links to copy certificate ordering information at [http://www.blackpool.gov.uk/Services/M-R/Registrars/FAQs/FAQs.htm?channel={F9A168C5-09F9-4C57-B8C6-DC5ED54F7867} Certificate FAQ Information]<br>
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| − | '''Manchester''' Registrars offer a full range of certificates along with PDF application forms at
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| − | *[http://www.manchester.gov.uk/registrars/contacts/apply.htm Certificate Information]
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| − | *[http://www.manchester.gov.uk/registrars/index.htm Manchester Registration Service]
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| − | ==Requests for Research and Photographs in this area==
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| − | Please read the [http://www.familytreeforum.com/wiki/index.php/Category:Research_Offers Terms and Conditions] before requesting a lookup.<br>
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| − | A list of members who have volunteered to do Research lookups or take photographs can be found in the [http://www.familytreeforum.com/research-offers/ Research Offers forum] or on the following pages in the Wiki:<br>
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| − | *[[Research Offers: Cemetery]]
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| − | *[[Research Offers: Photograph]]
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| − | *[[Research Offers: Probate]]
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| − | *[[Research Offers: Record Office/Archive]]
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| − | If any member wishes to offer to do lookups or take photographs in a particular location, please leave a message on our [http://www.familytreeforum.com/research-offers/73000-volunteers-needed-records-office-cemetery-lookups-photos.html Volunteers Needed thread].
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