Admarsh, Lancashire Genealogy

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

Admarsh, Lancashire
Type	Ecclesiastical Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
Hundred	Amounderness
County	Lancashire
Poor Law Union	Garstang
Registration District	Garstang
Records begin
Parish registers: 1779
Bishop's Transcripts: 1815
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery	Amounderness
Diocese	Manchester
Province	York
Legal Jurisdictions
Probate Court	Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Commissary of the Archdeaconry of Richmond Western Deaneries - Amounderness
Location of Archive
Lancashire Record Office

Parish History

Admarsh (for which see Bleasdale), is a chapelry, in the parish of Lancaster, union of Garstang, hundred of Amounderness, N. division of the county of Lancaster, 7 miles (E. by N.) from Garstang. The chapel, called Admarsh Chapel, is a neat edifice with a square tower, rebuilt in 1835; it has a beautiful east window of stained glass.

Resources

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 on the "Lancashire" main page.

Lancashire researchers now have two outstanding web sites with name lists or indexes, including one for local Lancashire births, marriages and deaths (BMDs) as well as a general site with national BMDs available to search online--including for Lancashire:

• LancashireBMD.org.uk - 15 million entries for Lancashire
• FreeBMD - over 20 million entries for Lancashire

Church records

Admarsh in Bleasdale chapelry's registers of christenings, marriages and burials, along with those of the ancient parish of Lancaster to which it is attached, have been mostly transcribed and are displayed online at the following web sites and ranges of years:

FS = FamilySearch.org

LOPC = Lancashire Online Parish Clerk project

FMP = findmypast

LBMD = LancashireBMD.org.uk

AC = Ancestry.co.uk

BLEASDALE (ADMARSH CHAPEL) ST EADMER Chapelry (1779) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	1779-1900	1849-1900	None
LOPC	1779-1982	1849-1976	1781-1900
LBMD	None	1849-1976	None
LANCASTER ST MARY'S PARISH (1599) Indexes (ancient parish containing ADMARSH)
FS	1599-1886	1599-1812	None
LOPC	1749-1900	1599-1900	1749-1881
FMP	None	1539-1837	None
LBMD	None	1837-1998	None
AC	1559-1748	1559-1748	1559-1748

The Family History Library has microfilmed these chapelry registers and the data will eventually, also be posted online up to about 1910 (not as late as the above years). Here's the microfilm associated with this chapelry--Family History Library BRITISH Film 1517649 Items 7 - 11:

• Baptisms, 1779-1900
• Marriages, 1849-1900
• Burials, 1807-1900

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

Census records

Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a FamilySearch Center or at the FamilySearch Library.

Poor Law Unions

Garstang 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.

Maps and Gazetteers

Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.

• England Jurisdictions 1851
• Vision of Britain

Websites

Admarsh in Lancaster on GENUKI