Dolphinholme, Lancashire Genealogy

England Lancashire  Lancashire Parishes

Chapelry History
DOLPHINHOLME, a chapelry in Cockerham parish, Lancashire, 6 ½ miles south from Lancaster.

DOLPHINHOLME, a chapelry in Cockerham parish, Lancashire; near Scorton r. station, 6 ½ miles S. of Lancaster. It has a post office under Lancaster. Thechurch was built in 1840. There are a Wesleyan chapel and a national school.

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.

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

Probate records&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;br&gt;
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851 *Vision of Britain