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 Formerly a centre for cotton manufacture, the traditional crafts along with its 'dark satanic mills' have been replaced by more modern and varied industries.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

• Lancashire Library and Information Service

• Lancashire BMD

• Lancashire Parish Portal

• 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

• RootsChat Lancashire Board

• The Salford Hundred Towships

• 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

• 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

• Burnage Heritage

• Burnley in the Great War

• Old Clitheroe

• 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

• 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

• Baines directory of Southport 1825

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

• Summerseat

• Local & Family History in St Helens

• Tameside Family History

• Todmorden and Walsden Genealogy

• 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 Family History Research

• 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 History Projects

• 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

• 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

• Photos of Southport

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

Requests for Research and Photographs in this area

Please read the Terms and Conditions before requesting a lookup.

A list of members who have volunteered to do Research lookups or take photographs can be found in the Research Offers forum or on the following pages in the Wiki:

• Research Offers: Cemetery
• Research Offers: Photograph
• Research Offers: Probate
• Research Offers: Record Office/Archive

If any member wishes to offer to do lookups or take photographs in a particular location, please leave a message on our Volunteers Needed thread.

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