Lumb, Lancashire Genealogy

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Chapelry History
Lumb St Michael was created a district chapelry in 1846 from, and lying within the civil boundaries of Haslingden, Lancashire Ecclesiastical Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Higher Booths and Lower Booths.

The church was declared redundant in 2001 and has now been converted to residential accommodation.

"LUMB, a hamlet and an ecclesiastical district,in the parochial chapelry of Newchurch-in-Rossendale, parish of Whalley, union of Haslingden, Higher division of the hundred of Blackburn, N. division of Lancashire, 10 miles north by northwest of Rochdale. The church, called St Michael's, was erected in 1847. The Baptists and Methodists have places of worship."

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

Online Records
 Church of England 

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

Poor Law Unions
Haslingden, Lancashire Poor Law Union

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

Web sites
http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/Rossendale/Lumb/stmichael/index.html contains a history of the Church Lancashire Online Parish Clerks