Lancashire Resources

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Online Parish Clerk project which aims to extract and preserve the records from the various parishes and to provide online access to that data, FREE of charge, along with other data of value to family and local historians conducting research in the County of Lancashire.
https://www.lan-opc.org.uk/

Lancashire BMD's - Free. The indexes are not yet complete for all years and districts from 1837.
https://www.lancashirebmd.org.uk/

Lancashire County Council Archives - many links to help research in Lancashire
https://www.lancashire.gov.uk/librar...-archives.aspx

Genuki Lancashire genealogy
https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LAN

Family Search = Free. Scroll down to the map, choose England then Lancashire.
https://familysearch.org/search

Old Street Plans
https://www.artus-familyhistory.com/...ly%20Maps.html

Manchester City Council Burial Records Search
https://www.burialrecords.manchester...GenSearch.aspx
Initial search is free and gives the occupants of a grave, then if a registered user with search credits you can obtain more information about a register entry by selecting the name of the deceased.

Manchester City Council
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer...000000664&z=12
showing the location of the main private and municipal cemeteries and crematoria in the City of Manchester. Also includes other helpful links and information

Liverpool Record Office & Local Studies
https://archive.liverpool.gov.uk/CalmView/default.aspx

Liverpool Roman Catholic Baptisms - basic information is free then pay to purchase further details
https://www.liverpoolhistoryprojects...oolrcbaptisms/

Liverpool Roman Catholic Marriages- basic information is free then pay to purchase further details
https://www.liverpoolhistoryprojects...olrcmarriages/

Saint Anthony's Online Database - the long term objective is to make the centre the principal site of research into the history of Liverpool Catholicism in general and the Irish in particular.
https://stanthonyscotlandroad.wordpr...abase-project/

Saint Joseph's Home for Roman Catholic Girls Manchester which officially came into operation at Grindlow House, 460 Stockport Road, Longsight, Manchester in 1871.
https://www.childrenshomes.org.uk/Ma...JosephGirlsIS/

Liverpool History Projects
This is an ongoing project by a group of people who have accumulated man transcripts, extracts, indexes, databases and other finding aids.
https://www.liverpoolhistoryprojects.co.uk/

Bolton Archives
https://www.boltonlams.co.uk/archives/archives-indexes
Churches, Clergymen, Memorial Inscriptions and Cemeteries
Colne
Colne Cemetery

Darwen
Darwen Cemetery

Everton
https://liverpool.gov.uk/births-marr...rton-cemetery/
Everton Cemetery RC Burial Index

Oldham
Chadderton Cemetery
Oldham Cemeteries Database - Oldham Crematorium, Hollinwood, Chadderton, Greenacres, Failsworth, Lees, Crompton, Royton

Liverpool
Allerton Cemetery - Burial index including link to plot and MI, and some photographs (not complete)
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/...nd-crematorium
Catholic death and burial indexes - in the Liverpool and surrounding area
Ford Roman Catholic Cemetery
Little Crosby (St Mary's Church) - surname index to graves and gravestone photographs. Includes other useful links. https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Little_Crosby
Liverpool - St James Cemetery - a searchable database of some photographs of the cemeteries and some information on individuals buried there
Toxteth Park Cemetery - surname index of people interred in the Consecrated and Unconsecrated sections of Toxteth Park Cemetery
Liverpool Graves Of Victoria Cross Holders https://www.victoriacross.org.uk/coliverp.htm
Woolton (St Peters Church) - transcriptions from headstones and an index to surnames (incomplete)

Lytham St Annes
Index of burials, cremations and memorials at Lytham St Annes Crematorium - Records of all persons who have been cremated or buried at Lytham Park Cemetery and Crematorium since the cemetery opened in 1927 and the crematorium in 1958. The Memorial Index contains details of all Cremation Memorials at Lytham Park, including details of memorials for persons who were not cremated at Lytham Park.

Manchester
Manchester Online Burial Records - includes Blackley Crematorium, Blackley Cemetery, Gorton Cemetery, Phillips Park Cemetery, Manchester General Cemetery (now known as Harpurhey), Southern Cemetery. Free search, shows other occupants interred in the same grave - need to register and purchase credits for full information.

Other cemeteries in Manchester
https://www.visitmanchester.com/idea...n-burial-sites

Findmypast have a dataset called Manchester cemetery records which have the following:
Ardwick cemetery 1858-1950
Rusholme Road cemetery, Chorlton upon Medlock 1821-1933
Cheetham Hill Wesleyan cemetery 1815-1968
Withington workhouse (Chorlton Union)death registers 1857-1949
Withington workhouse (Chorlton Union)internment registers 1898-1922

Originally FreeREG https://www.freereg.org.uk/
contained only parish register burials, but they have now expanded to include non-conformist and cemetery burials.
Places found when searching for Manchester.
https://www.freereg.org.uk/freereg_c...5c92?locale=en
Other Manchester areas such as Ardwick, Beswick, Moss Side, etc have their own links.

St Helen's
free searchable burial and cremation index
https://crem.oltps.sthelens.gov.uk/

Wigan
Westwood Cemetery - Index 12 Jan 1946 to 31 Dec 2007
Wigan Cemetery, Lower Ince - index 3 Sept 1856 to 30 Nov 2007

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And don't forget wiganworld - lots of "Stuff" there.

[christanel]

And don't forget wiganworld - lots of "Stuff" there.

Thanks for this. My lists are nowhere near complete so if anyone has any resources they want to add please do.

Christina

[macwil]

Lancashire Parish Register Transcriptions

Lancashire Parish Register Society
Reg. Charity still transcribing and publishing Lancs. Parish Registers.
https://www.lprs.org.uk/

archive.org
Some early LPRS publications available free, not well indexed, some only Vol. Nos., others name parish some just say 'Publications'.
Suggest checking Parish Volume No. on LPRS site.
The following goes to list of Lancs. Parish Registers available, includes some not attributed to LRPS.
https://archive.org/search.php?query...gisters&page=2

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Wigan-Archives
https://www.wigan.gov.uk/Resident/Mu...ves/index.aspx

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Plan of Graveyard and transcription of Burial Register downloadable pdfs.

https://stpaulsgoosegreen.org.uk/res...rch-documents/