Lancashire, England Genealogy

England  Guide to  ancestry, family history and genealogy parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

County Information
Lancashire, is a maritime county located in the North West of England. It is sometimes called the County of Lancaster.

By 1850 Lancashire was comprised of 75 ancient parishes, each with mostly large boundaries. However, with over 400 smaller chapels in Lancashire (called chapelries, chapels of ease, district chapels or ecclesiastical churches), most parishes on average had 8 chapels which sub-divided them.

You can also check John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales or, Samuel A. Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England to determine whether your 'parish' was in fact a "parish" or, if it was instead a chapel of ease (chapelry) within a large parish boundary, etc.

Parishes and Chapelries
The following interactive map enables researchers to make sense of this county's jurisdictional makeup: 1851 Jurisdictions Map.

Civil Registration Districts
List of Lancashire Civil Registration Districts and the parishes they contain.

Websites

 * Lancashire OnLine Parish Clerks Links to extracted data from many of the parishes in Lancashire.
 * GENUKI UK &amp; Ireland Genealogy
 * Lancashire Births, Marriages and Deaths 8,837,341 births, 4,240,187 marriages, 4,742,130 deaths
 * Lancashire, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 (£). 931,033 entries.
 * Lancashire, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1911 (£). 850,138 entries.
 * Lancashire, England, Deaths and Burials, 1813-1986 (£). 441,009 entries.
 * Lancashire, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1936 (£). 645,187 entries.
 * Lancashire, England, Confirmations, 1856-1922 (£). 3,807 entries.
 * Liverpool burials online
 * Liverpool church register transcripts at Lanc OPC
 * Manchester, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1915 (£). 1,702,491 entries.
 * Manchester, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1930 (£). 1,437,698 entries.
 * Manchester, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1541-1812 (£). 1,186,882 entries.
 * Manchester, England, Deaths and Burials, 1813-1985 (£). 917,791 entries.
 * Manchester Cathedral, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1930 (£). 409,330 entries.
 * Manchester Cathedral, England, Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1573-1812 (£). 376,533 entries.
 * Manchester Cathedral, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1901 (£). 282,956 entries.
 * Manchester Cathedral, England, Deaths and Burials, 1813-1866 (£). 42,850 entries.
 * Manchester burials online
 * Manchester church register transcripts online at Lanc-OPC
 * RootsChat Lancashire Resources and help pages Free Family History Help in Lancashire
 * Manchester Roman Catholic Registers transcripts
 * Roman Catholic marriages, baptisms and burials
 * FHLFavorites.info an extensive list of web sites and/or web pages for Lancashire and many of its parishes (search for links not only on the local level but at the county [Lancashire] and national [England] levels as well