Blackburn Christ Church, Lancashire Genealogy

Guide to Blackburn Christ Church, Lancashire, England ancestry, family history, and genealogy: chapelry register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Chapelry History
Blackburn (Christ Church) was a chapelry created in the year 1859 and was in the civil parish of St Mary's Blackburn. In the town are places of worship for Baptists, the Society of Friends, Independents, Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists, and Warrenites, also a Scottish kirk and a Roman Catholic chapel; and in the rural parts of the parish are various other meeting-houses for different denominations.

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.

Church Records
The following current databases at FamilySearch do not include Christ Church Chapelry registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, but may likely include name entries from surrounding chapelries that are like, Christ Church, also attached to the ancient or mother parish of Blackburn St Mary. If searches in the following two databases do not prove successful, be certain to search the available chapelry registers of baptisms, marriages and burials here: FamilySearch Catalog entry for Blackburn Christ Church.


 * 1538 - 1910 at FamilySearch — index
 * 1603 - 1910 at FamilySearch — index and images

Online Records
 Church of England 

Blackburn Christ Church chapelry's register entries of christenings, marriages and burials, along with those of the ancient parish of Blackburn St Mary to which it is attached, might have been transcribed and possibly displayed online at the following web sites and ranges of years:

For a full list of all those chapels surrounding Blackburn Christ Church and comprising the whole ancient parish of Blackburn St. Mary to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the BLACKBURN ST MARY PARISH page.

Non-Denominational Churches

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at Findmypast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)
 * 1647-1996 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)

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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Blackburn on GENUKI