Blackburn St Michael and All Angels, Lancashire Genealogy

England Lancashire  Lancashire Parishes

Chapelry History
The chapelry of St Michael and All Angels Blackburn was created by the year 1839 and stood in the civil parish of St Mary Blackburn (which see)

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 Records
Online transcriptions exist for Blackburn St Michael and All Angels Chapel registers as well as for Blackburn ancient parish of St Mary's baptism, marriage and burial registers. Displayed below are those links to online data for both this chapelry and for the ancient parish of St Nicholas located in the following websites; note the ranges of years:&amp;nbsp;

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

Original Records
The original records are housed at the Lancashire Record Office, Bow Lane, Preston PR1 2RE, United Kingdom. FamilySearch has also microfilmed these original parish and chapel registers and many of them have searchable data available on FamilySearch.org.

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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