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 Formerly a centre for cotton manufacture, the traditional crafts along with its 'dark satanic mills' have been replaced by more modern and varied industries.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

Copy Certificate Information

Manchester Registration Service Homepage

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

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.

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

• Lancashire Record Office

• GENUKI: Lancashire

• Lancashire Library and Information Service

• Lancashire Certificates Online

• Lancashire BMD

• RootsChat Lancashire Board

• Lancashire Parish Portal

Local History Society

• Lancashire Family History Societies

• Liverpool & SW Lancashire Family History Society

• Local History Gateway Page

• Manchester & Lancashire Family History Society

OPC

• Lancashire OnLine Parish Clerk Project

• Lancashire Look-up Exchange

• Parish Register UK Look-up Exchange

Archives

• IGI Lancashire A-K

• IGI Lancashire L-O

• IGI Lancashire P-Z

• The Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire

• North East Lancashire surname list

• Some Liverpool Parish Records

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

• Some Lancashire Deeds 1602-1774

• Parish the Thought - Some online Parish Records

• Links to Birth/Baptism Indices in the Liverpool Area

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

• Photographs of Old Lancashire

• 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

• Manchester Local Image Collection

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)

• Barnoldswick's Community Website

• Local history & heritage Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council

• Bolton Revisited - Family History - Message Board

• Bolton and Bury Treasures in Trust

• The Briercliffe Society

• Burnley in the Great War

• 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

• Rochdale Cemetery

• Local & Family History in St Helens name interests, photographs, downloads of church records, etc.

• Todmorden and Walsden Genealogy Includes some Parish Records

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

• Wigan Leisure and Culture Trust

• All Saints Church Speke Burial Records up to 2000

Manchester

• Burial Records Search

• Manchester past and present

• Manchester History Pages

• Greater Manchester

• Manchester City Council: Libraries: Family History

• Manchester Executions

• Manchester

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

• Salford City Council Forum

• Salford Roots

Liverpool

• 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

• 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

• 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 - 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

• Liverpool Postcode Areas

• Map of Liverpool Postcode Areas

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