Bickerstaffe, Lancashire Genealogy

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

History
BICKERSTAFFE (Holy Trinity), a township and ecclesiastical district, in the parish and union of Ormskirk, hundred of West Derby, S. division of the county of Lancaster, 3½ miles southeast of Ormskirk. The church was erected in 1843 and is in the early English style, with an apse at the east end, and a square tower surmounted by a graceful spire of great height, forming a conspicuous object in the surrounding scenery.

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:


 * FreeBMD
 * Lancashire BMD
 * Lancashire Parishes

Church records

 * 1538 - 1910 at FamilySearch — index

Online Records
Bickerstaffe chapelry's registers of christenings, marriages and burials, along with those of the ancient parish of Ormskirk to which it is attached, have been mostly transcribed and are displayed online at the following web sites and ranges of years:


 * AC = Ancestry.co.uk (£)
 * FMP = findmypast (£)
 * FREG = FreeReg
 * FS  = FamilySearch.org
 * LBMD = LancashireBMD.org.uk
 * LOPC = Lancashire Online Parish Clerk

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

Non-Conformist Churches

 * 1647-1996 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)

Poor Law Unions

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


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Bickerstaffe on GENUKI