Fence-in-Pendle, Lancashire Genealogy

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Chapelry History
Fence-in-Pendle St Anne was created a chapelry in 1837 from Whalley, Lancashire Ancient Parish.

Due to the neighbouring Reedley Hallows, Filly Close and New Laund Booth, Lancashire extra parochial area some recorded events in registers may apply to that area.

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.

"BOOTH, OLD LAUND, a township, in the chapelry of Newchurch-in-Pendle, which is in the parish of Whalley, union of Burnley, Higher division of the hundred of Blackburn, N. division of the county of Lancaster, 3 miles (N.) from Burnley. A church dedicated to St. Anne was built at Fence, in Old Laund, in 1837."

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
Fence-in-Pendle 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 Fence-in-Pendle 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 Fence-in-Pendle, 1837-1900 Microfilm of original records at the Lancashire Record Office, Preston. Fence-in-Pendle is a chapelry in the parish of Whalley. Lancashire Record Office no.: PR 3175/1/1-3, 8-9

Bishop's transcripts for Fence-in-Pendle, 1871-1874 Microfilm of original records at the Lancashire Record Office, Preston. Fence-in-Pendle is a chapelry in the parish of Whalley.

Poor Law Unions
Clitheroe 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.

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