Church Kirk, Lancashire Genealogy

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Chapelry History
Church Kirk St James was created a chapel of ease by 1600, taken from and lying within the boundaries of Whalley Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Oswaldtwistle and Huncoat.

"CHURCH, or Church Kirk, is a township, in the parish of Whalley, union, and Lower division of the hundred, of Blackburn, N. division of the county of Lancaster, 4¾ miles east of Blackburn. This township, and the townships of Huncoat and Oswaldtwistle, form the parochial chapelry of ChurchKirk St. James and was built at least by 1600. A chapel was also built at Oswaldtwistle in 1837. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans."

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 

Church Kirk 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 Church Kirk and comprising the whole ancient parish of Whalley to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the WHALLEY PARISH page.

Parish registers for Church, 1633-1948 Microfilm of original records at the Lancashire Record Office, Preston. Church is a township-chapelry in the parish of Whalley. Lancashire Record Office call nos. : PR 457-464; 3037/1/1-9, 11-18, 23-27; 3063/1/4

Bishop's transcripts of the chapelry of Church, 1600-1877. Microfilm of original records at the Lancashire Record Office, Preston. Includes records of Christ Church in Chatburn. Church is a township-chapelry in Whalley parish.

Poor Law Unions
Blackburn 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
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