Comprehensive List of Blackburn Chapelries and Parish

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Blackburn is a market town parish 30 miles south east of Lancaster and 24 miles north, northwest of Manchester.

The following township chapelries comprised Blackburn Parish boundaries and should be given earnest consideration when researching the records of this township. If your ancestor said or stated "Blackburn" as the parish of birth, they were likely correct! But in addition to searching Blackburn's ancient parish of *St Mary the Virgin, if an ancestor was not found, then a search in all of the following chapelries which were connected with and comprise the whole of Blackburn Parish (prior to 1851) should be searched as well:


 * Blackburn, St Mary the Virgin, Cathedral Close - 1568
 * Blackburn St John the Evangelist Victoria St - 1847
 * Blackburn, St Paul, St Paul Street - 1792
 * Blackburn, St Peter, St Peter Street - 1821
 * Blackburn, Holy Trinity - 1848
 * Billington-Langho - 1725
 * Balderston - 1751
 * Brookhouse St James - 1789
 * Brownhill St Gabriel - 1828
 * Daisyfield St Michaels Daisy Lane - 1839
 * Daisyfield St Michael All Angels - 1839
 * Great Harward - 1547
 * Over Darwen St James - 1847
 * Over Darwen St Peter - 1829
 * Salesbury - 1807
 * Samlesbury - 1623
 * Tockholes - 1777
 * Bamber-Bridge St Saviour - 1837
 * Lower Darwen - 1751
 * Feniscowles - 1837
 * Mellor St Mary - 1829]
 * Ramsgrave - 1830
 * Walton-le-Dale - 1609
 * Witton - 1838