Over Darwen Holy Trinity, Lancashire Genealogy
England 
Lancashire Lancashire Parishes
Chapelry History[edit | edit source]
Over Darwen Holy Trinity was a chapel of ease built in the year 1826-27 and lay within the boundaries of the parish of Blackburn, being one of four chapels serving Over Darwen (as of 1885; see also St Peter, St James and St John the Evangelist).
Resources[edit | edit source]
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
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.
Church records[edit | edit source]
Online Records[edit | edit source]
Church of England
Over Darwen Holy Trinity chapelry's registers of christenings, marriages and burials, along with those of the ancient parish of Blackburn 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.co.uk | |||||
| LBMD = LancashireBMD.org.uk | |||||
| AC = Ancestry.co.uk | |||||
| FREG = FreeReg |
| OVER DARWEN HOLY TRINITY (later known as ST PETER) Chapelry (1829) Indexes | |||||
| Baptisms | Marriages | Burials | |||
| FS | None | None | 1829-1857, '1861-1900' | ||
| LOPC | 1829-1890 | 1837-1882 | 1829-1834, 1857-1861 | ||
| LBMD | None | None | None | ||
| BLACKBURN ST MARY THE VIRGIN PARISH | |||||
| Baptisms | Marriages | Burials | |||
| FS | 1600-1910 | 1600-1704, 1720-1900 | 1720-1900 | ||
| LOPC | 1600-1611, 1614-1628, 1653-1848, 1854-1881 | 1600-1680, 1698-1705, 1722-1900 | 1651-1652, 1746-1900 | ||
| LBMD | 1837-1885 | 1837-1957 | 1837-1885 | ||
| FMP | None | 1600-1705 | None | ||
| AC | 1600-1660 | 1600-1660 | 1600-1660 | ||
For a full list of all those chapels surrounding Over Darwen Holy Trinity and comprising the whole ancient parish of Blackburn to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the BLACKBURN ST MARY PARISH page.
Census records[edit | edit source]
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.
Probate records
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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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Web sites[edit | edit source]