Lytham, Lancashire Genealogy

Guide to Lytham, Lancashire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
LYTHAM (St. Cuthbert), a parish, and a fashionable bathing-place, in the union of the Fylde, hundred of Amounderness, N. division of Lancashire, 13 miles (W. by S.) from Preston. A Methodist meetinghouse has been recently built, and in the village is a Roman Catholic chapel.

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.

Important Online indexes of millions of Lancashire Births, Marriages and Deaths are now available at Lancashire BMD

Church Records
Online Records
 * 1538 - 1910 at FamilySearch — index
 * 1603 - 1910 at FamilySearch — index and images

Lytham St Cuthbert's parish registers and those registers of all of its smaller chapelries lying within its boundaries have been mostly transcribed and are displayed online at the web sites below and for the following ranges of years:

Original Records

Lytham church registers may be accessed at the Lancashire Record Office, Bow Lane, Preston, PR1 2RE, UK.

Also, microfilmed copies of original parish registers, Bishop’s transcripts, Nonconformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records, are available via FamilySearch's Family History Library,Salt Lake City, Utah, USA or through one of its 4,600 FamilySearch Centers worldwide.

Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the FamilySearch Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

Non Conformist Records

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

Genealogy
Cookson, Michael D. Cooksons and the Vanished Hamlet of Cross Slack. History and family tree of George Cookson and Grace surname unknown dating from 1755-1956,with the following surnames, Butcher, Parkenson, Dobson, Dagger, Fisher, Cross, Russell, to be found in The Lancashire Family History and Heraldry Soc. Magazine, vol.15, no.2 pages 25-32. FHL Ref. 942.72 B2r

Poor Law Unions
Fylde 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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