Brindle, Lancashire Genealogy

Guide to Brindle, Lancashire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
BRINDLE (St James), a parish, in the union of Chorley, hundred of Leyland, N. division of the county of Lancaster, 4¾ miles north by east of Chorley. It is in the centre of a triangle between Preston, Blackburn, and Chorley. There is a Roman Catholic chapel here, dedicated to St. Joseph, having been rerected in the year 1786.

The Diocese of Blackburn is a Church of England diocese, covering much of Lancashire, created in 1926 from part of the Diocese of Manchester. The Diocese includes the towns of Blackburn, Blackpool, Burnley, and the cities of Lancaster, and Preston, as well as a large part of the Ribble Valley.

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

Church Records

 * 1538 - 1910 at FamilySearch — index
 * 1603 - 1910 at FamilySearch — index and images

Online Records

Brindle Parish registers have been extensively indexed and posted online for searching at the following three web sites and range of years:

Original Records

Original parish registers are housed at the Lancashire Record Office, Bow Lane, Preston PR1 2RE, UK. In addition, they have also been completely microfilmed from 1558-1948 by FamilySearch and film copies are available for ordering to any one its&nbs;satellite FamilySearch centers worldwide, on microfilm numbers 1849648 Items 6 - 19; 093658 and 93659 Items 1 - 8

Catholic

 * 1628 - 1628 List of Recusants in Brindle (p. 183)

Non-Conformist Churches

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)
 * 1647-1996 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)

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.

Taxation

 * 1628 - 1628 Subsidy of Brindle (p. 165)
 * 1665 - Lancashire Hearth Tax: Leyland Hundred, Brindle. E 179/132/351, The National Archives. Microfilm:.

Maps and Gazetteers
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Brindle on GENUKI