User:Iluvhistory66/Sandbox/Adding England Historic Counties Explanation

EMPTY Each chapelry (church) kept its own separate church registers for christenings, often for burials, and for some marriages as well. Most chapelries did not obtain "parish" status and were not granted 'licence' to marry couples until after 1836. The vast majority of Lancashire's chapels and district churches never received "parish" status until modern times, mostly by the twentieth century.