Admarsh, Lancashire Genealogy

England Lancashire  Lancashire Parishes



Parish History
Admarsh St Eadmer is a chapel of ease created in 1748 from Lancaster St Mary, Lancashire Ancient Parish.

St Eadmer is a virtually unique dedicatory name in England. The church was rebuilt in 1835 by John Dewhurst and restored and enlarged in 1897. It has a west tower and lancet windows.

Bleasdale is a village and civil parish in the Wyre district of Lancashire, England, in the Forest of Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

Admarsh in Bleasdale, St Eadmer, is a chapelry in the parish of Lancaster, union of Garstang, hundred of Amounderness, N. division of the county of Lancaster, 7 miles east by north from Garstang.

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 on the "Lancashire" main page.

Lancashire researchers now have two outstanding web sites with name lists or indexes, including one for local Lancashire births, marriages and deaths (BMDs) as well as a general site with national BMDs available to search online--including for Lancashire:


 * LancashireBMD.org.uk - 15 million entries for Lancashire
 * FreeBMD - over 20 million entries for Lancashire

Church records
Admarsh in Bleasdale chapelry's registers of christenings, marriages and burials, along with those of the ancient parish of Lancaster to which it is attached, have been mostly transcribed and are displayed online at the following web sites and ranges of years:

The Family History Library has microfilmed these chapelry registers and the data will eventually, also be posted online up to about 1910 (not as late as the above years). Here's the microfilm associated with this chapelry--Family History Library BRITISH Film 1517649 Items 7 - 11:


 * Baptisms, 1779-1900
 * Marriages, 1849-1900
 * Burials, 1807-1900

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

Census records
http://www.1881pubs.com/ for details of public houses in the 1881 census

Poor Law Unions
Garstang 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