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 Formerly a centre for cotton manufacture, the traditional crafts along with its 'dark satanic mills' have been replaced by more modern and varied industries.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

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

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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

• LIBRARY LINKS

• Lancashire Certificates Online

• LANCASHIRE BMD

• Local History Gateway Page

• RootsChat Lancashire Board

• Lancashire Parish Portal

Local History Society

• LANCASHIRE FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETIES

OPC

• lancashire On-line parish clerks's project

Archives

• IGI Lancashire surnames A-K

• IGI Lancashire surnames L-O

• IGI Lancashire surnames P-Z

• Preston

• The Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire

• north east Lancashire surname list

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

Maps & Photographs

• Lancashire County Council: Environment Directorate: Old Maps

• East Lancashire Photographs

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

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

Countywide interest

• Lancashire Village Websites and rural Lancashire information links

Specific Town Village interest (Also See Liverpool and Manchester , below)

• Local history & heritage Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council

• GREAT HARWOOD. Great Harwood

• GENEALOGY IN DARWEN & BLACKBURN ENGLAND

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

• Internment.Net

• Birch Families of Oldham in the 19th Century

• Bolton Revisited - Family History - Message Board

• Bolton and Bury Treasures in Trust

• Wigan Leisure and Culture Trust

Manchester

• Burial Records Search

• MANCHESTER PAST and PRESENT

• Greater Manchester

• Manchester City Council: Libraries: Family History

• Manchester Executions

• Burial Records Search

• MANCHESTER

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

• Salford City Council Forum

• Salford Roots

Liverpool

• Irish Family History Research in the Liverpool Area

• Liverpool streetnames

• Liverpool Genealogy Home Page

• Liverpool

• 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

• Toxteth Park Cemetery

• Liverpool Murders

• Little Crosby Church

• Todmorden And Walsden Site

• Barnoldswick's Community Website

• Spinning the Web

• Milnrow Village Site

• War Memorial Site

• FamilyHistoryOnline

• St Matthews Burials, Highfield

• Barton Wesleyan Chapel Burials

• Cottontown

• Toxteth.net - excellent history of Toxteth Park, lots of photos, maps etc

• 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'

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