Lancashire Parishes: Difference between revisions

To help you determine all chapelries within an ancient parish,click on any of the ancient parishes listed below, then click the "''Comprehensive List of Parishes and Chapelries''" link found at the top of each parish's page. You will find each chapel listed with 1) the year it was created, 2)the name of the ancient (or 'mother') parish to which it was attached, and 3) with a hyper-link which takes you directly to the FamilySearch Catalog for available microfilms to view for that chapel or parish's registers of christenings, marriages and burials, etc.  

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

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