Brownhill St Gabriel, Lancashire Genealogy

England Lancashire  Lancashire Parishes

Parish History
Brownhill St Gabriel was created a chapelry by about the year 1828 and was one of about 35 chapelries serving within the ancient parish boundary of Blackburn St Mary.

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/

Online Records
 Church of England 

Brownhill chapelry's registers of christenings, marriages and burials are not currently available. However, those of the ancient parish of Blackburn, to which it is attached, have been mostly transcribed and are displayed online at the following web sites and ranges of years:

For a full list of all those chapels surrounding Brownhill and comprising the whole ancient parish of Blackburn to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the BLACKBURN PARISH page.

Census records
The following web sites have indexed and posted online, data for all of Lancashire census records and covering all publicly available years:

Ancestry.co.uk - findmypast TheGenealogist

Poor Law Unions
Chorley 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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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain