Lytham, Lancashire Genealogy

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Parish History
Lytham St Cuthbert is an Ancient Parish (1678) in the Amounderness deanery of the Diocese of the Diocese of Manchester from 1847.

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.

"LYTHAM St Cuthbert, a parish, in the union of the Fylde, hundred of Amounderness, N. division of Lancashire, 13 miles west by south from Preston. The church was rebuilt in 1834. A second church, at the entrance to the village from the Preston road, was commenced in June, 1847.

A Methodist meetinghouse has been recently built, and in the village is a Roman Catholic chapel.

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.

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Church records
Online Records

Lytham St Cuthbert's parish registers and those registers of all of its smaller chapelries lying within its boundaries have been mostly transcribed and are displayed online at the web sites below and for the following ranges of years:

Original Records

Lytham church registers may be accessed at the Lancashire Record Office, Bow Lane, Preston, PR1 2RE, UK.

Also, microfilmed copies of original parish registers, Bishop’s transcripts, Nonconformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records, are available via FamilySearch's Family History Library,Salt Lake City, Utah, USA or through one of its 4,600 FamilySearch Centers worldwide.

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Poor Law Unions
Fylde 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.

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