Burnley St Peter, Lancashire Genealogy

Guide to Burnley St Peter, Lancashire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: chapelry register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Chapelry History
BURNLEY (St. Peter) a parochial chapelry as of 1562, and the head of a union, in the parish of Whalley, Higher division of the hundred of Blackburn, N. division of the county of Lancaster, 25 miles north of Manchester, comprising the townships of Burnley, Habergham-Eaves, Ightenhill Park, Reedley Hollows, Briercliffe-cum-Extwistle, Worsthorn-with-Hurstwood, and Cliviger.

Here is a list of chapelries attached to the parochial chapelry of Burnley:


 * Burnley St Peter - 1562
 * Burnley St James - 1846
 * Burnley St Paul's Lane-Bridge - 1845
 * Burnley St Andrew - 1868
 * Briercliffe - 1835
 * Habergham All saints - 1845
 * Habergham-Eaves - 1837
 * Holme St John - 1742
 * Worsthorn - 1835

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.

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

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

 Church of England 

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

Burnley- St Peter Baptisms Transcript-1562-1653- 929.3272 B22 Baptisms Transcript-1653-1690- Archives LPRS Transcript Baptisms Transcript-1653-1690- 929.342764 Bu(456) Burials Transcript-1562-1653- 929.3272 B22 Burials Transcript-1653-1695- Archives LPRS Transcript Burials Transcript-1653-1691- 929.342764 Bu(456) Marriage Index-1813-1837- Rossendale Fiche B26 Marriages Transcript-1562-1653- 929.3272 B22 Marriages Transcript-1653-1688- Archives LPRS Transcript Marriages Transcript-1653-1688- 929.342764 Bu(456)

For the originals of the 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)

Non-Conformist Churches

 * 1647-1996 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)

Genealogy
Stott, Brain. Towler of Colne and Burnley. Family History of John Towler of Colne and Judith Robinson from the parish of Clapham, marrying in 1761, and their descendants scattered through Yorkshire, Lancashire, and London. Article in The Lancashire Family History and Heraldry Society Magazine, vol.16. no.1. pages 40-43,

FHL Ref. 942.72 B2r

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


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Burnley on GENUKI