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    Default Lancashire Resources

    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wiganexile View Post
    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
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    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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    Post St. Paul's Church, Goose Green, (Wigan)

    Plan of Graveyard and transcription of Burial Register downloadable pdfs.

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

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    Many thanks for all the links in the above posts - some I knew about.

    I have just spent 3 months sorting through a few thousand postage stamps that I bought through an auction site and family history research had to take a back seat.

    Back into again and as most of my families are from Lancashire the links are very timely.

    David

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    I am a member of the Lancashire FHS, and in particular the Chorley branch.

    1 year ago at the beginning of lockdown the Chorley branch took the decision to move everything on line including meetings and talks which are done on-line using Zoom. The main society has now decided to follow suit.

    One of the unexpected spin offs has been that members from all over the World, never mind the rest of the UK, have been able to join in.

    I know that other societies are doing similar things.

    Below is a link to the main society page which has links to other pages such as the list of their on line talks and also to the various branches:

    https://lfhhs.org/home.php

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    Lancashire Family History and Heraldry Society

    CHORLEY BRANCH - Change of Meeting Venue:

    Meeting Date: 2nd Thursday of the month (except in December when it is the 1st Thursday)

    Meeting Location: From Thursday, 11 May 2023, Chorley Branch meetings will be held on the 2nd Thursday of the month at 7.30pm in Primrose Gardens, Fleet Street, Chorley PR7 2EE

    Parking: Free parking after 5pm immediately opposite Primrose Gardens on Fleet Street car park, Chorley, PR7 2EY. Also street parking on Fleet Street and Library Street.
    Please note you cannot park on the Primrose Gardens car park as understandably, this is a security-controlled car park for residents and their visitors only.

    Entrance Fee: £2 for members and non members alike.

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