Colne, Lancashire Genealogy

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Chapelry History
Colne St Bartholomew was erected as an ancient chapel of ease, and in operation by 1599, taken from and lying within the boundaries of Whalley Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Foulridge and Barrowford Booth.

Originally in the Diocese of Chester ( registers begin in 1599) it became part of the Whalley Deanery in The Diocese of Manchester in 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.

"COLNE St Bartholomew, a large market-town and a parochial chapelry, in the parish of Whalley, union of Burnley, Higher division of the hundred of Blackburn, N. division of the county of Lancaster, is 35 miles southeast of Lancaster.

This parochial chapelry included at least the following 5 chapels of ease:


 * Great Marsden - 1847
 * Little Marsden - 1835
 * Colne Christ Church - 1836
 * Barrowford St. Thomas - 1838
 * Trawden St Mary - 1844

This chapelry also included the town of Foulridge.

There were places of worship for Baptists, Independents, Wesleyan Methodists, and Primitive Methodists.

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/

Church records
Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

Colne- St Bartholomew Baptisms Transcript-1599-1653- 929.3272 C10 Baptisms Transcript-1654-1697- Archives LPRS Transcript Baptisms Transcript-1774-1789- 929.3272 Co7 Baptisms Transcript-1790-1812- Q929.3272 Co10 or Rossendale Fiche C15 Burials Transcript-1599-1650- 929.3272 C10 Burials Transcript-1654-1734- Archives LPRS Transcript Burials Transcript-1774-1789- 929.3272 Co7 Burials Transcript-1790-1812- Q929.3272 Co4 Marriage Index-1813-1837- Rossendale Fiche C11 Marriages Transcript-1599-1644- 929.3272 C10 Marriages Transcript-1654-1754- 929.342764 Wh1

For original registers of above please enquire at Lancashire Record Office.

The Manchester Room and Greater Manchester County Record Office Email: archiveslocalstudies@manchester.gov.uk

The Manchester Room@City Library (Local Studies)

Poor Law Unions
Burnley 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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