Preston St Peter, Lancashire Genealogy

England Lancashire  Lancashire Parishes



Chapel History
Preston St Peter, St Peter's Square was created a district chapel in 1826 from, and lying within the boundaries of Preston St John, Lancashire Ancient Parish.

The church was declared redundant and is now used as the Arts centre for the surrounding University of Central Lancashire campus.

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

Online index of Lancashire Births, Marriages and Deaths Lancashire BMD

Lancashire Online Parish Clerks
An extremely useful resource for research in Lancashire Parishes http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/

Church records
Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

Parish registers of St Peter's Preston

Microfilm of original records at the Lancashire Record Office, Preston. Lancashire Record Office no. : PR 2951/1/14, 8, 13-14, 21; 2951/2/; 3291/1/1-2

Baptisms, 1862-1900; marriages, 1900; banns, 1864-1900; requests for banns, 1864-1886; vestry book, 1898-1900. FHL BRITISH Film 1471022 Items 4-12 Marriages, 1864-1900. FHL BRITISH Film 1796146 Items 7 - 8

Census records
http://www.1881pubs.com/ for details of public houses in the 1881 census

Poor Law Unions
Preston Poor Law Union, Lancashire

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Lancashire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Maps and Gazetteers
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