Reedley Hallows, Filly Close and New Laund Booth , Lancashire Genealogy

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Chapelry History
BOOTH, NEW LAUND, with Filley-Close and Reedley-Hallows, a township, in the parish of Whalley, union of Burnley, Higher division of the hundred of Blackburn, N. division of the county of Lancaster, 2 miles (N.) from Burnley. These three places are ancient vaccaries of Pendle. The river Calder divides Filley-Close and New Laund from Reedley-Hallows; and the Leeds and Liverpool canal also passes through the township. Reedley Hallows, Filly Close and New Laund Booth is an extra-parochial place. Search surrounding parishes for records and information.

In 1848, BOOTH, OLD LAUND, was a township, lying in the ancient chapelry of Newchurch-in-Pendle, and within the boundary of the Parish of Whalley, Lancashire, union of Burnley, Higher division of the hundred of Blackburn, N. division of the county of Lancaster, 3 miles north of Burnley. A church dedicated to St. Anne was built at Fence, in Old Laund, in 1837.  

Fence lies in the civil parish of Old Laund Booth, which was in the Hundred of Blackburn. Up until Late medieval times it lay in the Forest of Pendle, i.e. in the hunting preserve of the King. The name of the village is derived from the fact that an enclosure was erected in the area within which the King's deer were kept. This became known as the "Fence" and the community that built up around it over time took the name. In 1507 Henry VII "surrendered [the parcel called the Fence] to the use of the tenants of Higham, West Close and Goldshaw Booth, to be held by them and their heirs for ever". First mention of Fence is in a document of 1402 as 'Fens in Penhill'.

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

Lancashire Online Parish Clerks
An extremely useful resource for research in Lancashire Parishes http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/

Online Records
Fence-in-Pendle 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 Fence-in-Pendle and comprising the whole ancient parish of Whalley to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the WHALLEY PARISH page.

Parish registers for Fence-in-Pendle, 1837-1900 Microfilm of original records at the Lancashire Record Office, Preston. Fence-in-Pendle is a chapelry in the parish of Whalley. Lancashire Record Office no.: PR 3175/1/1-3, 8-9

Bishop's transcripts for Fence-in-Pendle, 1871-1874 Microfilm of original records at the Lancashire Record Office, Preston. Fence-in-Pendle is a chapelry in the parish of Whalley.

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.

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Web sites
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendle_witch_trials for further information about the Pendle Witch trials. Fence in Pendle contains living descendants of one of those executed for witchcraft.