Worsthorne, Lancashire Genealogy

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Chapelry History
Worsthorne St John was created a district chapelry in 1837 from, and lying within the parochial chapelry of Burnley St Peter, Lancashire, and lying within boundaries of Whalley ancient parish. Other places in the parish include: Hurstwood.

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.

"WORSTHORN, a township with a district chapel, in the parochial chapelry and poor-law union of Burnley, in the parish of Whalley, Higher division of the hundred of Blackburn, N. division of Lancashire, 2¼ miles east from Burnley. The township lies on the borders of Yorkshire. The foundation stone of this district church was laid in September 1834, and the church was consecrated in Sept. 1835; it is dedicated to St. John."

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 

Worsthorne chapelry's registers of christenings, marriages and burials, along with those of the ancient parish of Whalley 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 Worsthorne and comprising the whole ancient parish of Whalley to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the WHALLEY ST MARY PARISH page.

Poor Law Unions
Burnley 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