Feniscowles, Lancashire Genealogy

England Lancashire  Lancashire Parishes

Chapelry History
Feniscowles or sometimes known as "PLEASINGTON, a township with a district chapelry, in the parish, union, and Lower division of the hundred, of Blackburn, N. division of Lancashire, 2 miles west by south of Blackburn. The chapel was built at Feniscowles in 1840 and is dedicated to Emmanuel. The district assigned to the church includes the whole of Pleasington, and parts of Livesey and Hoghton (which also see).

A Roman Catholic chapel was also built here.

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.

Church records
Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
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