Lancashire, England Parishes: Difference between revisions

The following list of 'Lancashire parishes" is actually a list of&nbsp;its 75 parishes&nbsp;''and approximately 400-plus chapels'' of ease (chapelries, district chapels, parochial chapelries,etc). Note that&nbsp;it is '''''not&nbsp;'''''<i>yet</i>'''&nbsp;'''a complete list. &nbsp;  

However,&nbsp;to help you determine&nbsp;all chapelries within an ancient parish,&nbsp;see or view the [["Lancashire Ancient Parishes"]] page or,&nbsp;click on any&nbsp;of&nbsp;the ancient parishes listed below (see double asterisked ["**"] names below); then&nbsp;click the "''Comprehensive List of Parishes and Chapelries''" link found at the top of each&nbsp;parish's ''main page''. You will find each&nbsp;chapel listed with 1) the&nbsp;year it was created,&nbsp;2)&nbsp;the name of the ancient (or 'mother') parish&nbsp;to which it was&nbsp;attached, and 30 with a link which takes you directly to&nbsp;the Family History Library Catalog (FHLC)&nbsp;for available&nbsp;microfilms to view for that chapel or parish.  

''The above "Comprehensive Lists", ''(see links found in each parish's Main page)'', are printable and provide as&nbsp;complete&nbsp;a listing of all chapels in each parish&nbsp;as may be found in one single place--anywhere.''  

''After&nbsp;completing research in&nbsp;the ancient parish registers, be certain to ask yourself if you have also searched in the church registers of each chapelry attached to that parish (as listed in the "Comprehensive Lists"&nbsp;of parishes and chapels). To not follow this strategy in your research will result in&nbsp;less-than&nbsp;thorough searching, and failure to solve your research problems or objectives. These lists will greatly&nbsp;aid&nbsp;you as you attempt to progress your research into surrounding, contiguous parishes and their respective attached&nbsp;chapels,&nbsp;and so on. Aside from the sheer magnitude of its population, incomplete lists of chapels and chapelries&nbsp;''lying within&nbsp;an ancient&nbsp;parish boundary is&nbsp;one of&nbsp;the major&nbsp;reasons many&nbsp;researchers&nbsp;have&nbsp;decades-old 'brickwall'&nbsp;research problems in tracing ancestral lineages&nbsp;in Lancashire!  

While the list (below) indicates most&nbsp;Lancashire churches--including the 75 ancient parishes (**), it is in the "Comprehensive Lists" that you will&nbsp;obtain the most&nbsp;complete and thorough&nbsp;list of all chapelries&nbsp;attached to each's&nbsp;ancient parish''':'''  

There at least three major website which are currently indexing or transcribing Lancashire's chapels and parish registers. These&nbsp;include:  

1. Lancashire Online Parish Clerk project  

See the "Parish" page for each ancient parish and/or chapelry; then scroll down to "Church Records" to view the chart with links to the available years with online data content.