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Chapelry History

Church Kirk St James was created a chapel of ease by 1600, taken from and lying within the boundaries of Whalley Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Oswaldtwistle and Huncoat.


"CHURCH, or Church Kirk, is a township, in the parish of Whalley, union, and Lower division of the hundred, of Blackburn, N. division of the county of Lancaster, 4¾ miles east of Blackburn. This township, and the townships of Huncoat and Oswaldtwistle, form the parochial chapelry of ChurchKirk St. James and was built at least by 1600. A chapel was also built at Oswaldtwistle in 1837. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans."[1]

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. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

Online index of Lancashire Births, Marriages and Deaths Lancashire BMD

Lancashire Online Parish Clerks

An extremely useful resource for research in Lancashire Parishes http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/


Church records

Online Records

Church of England

Church Kirk chapelry's registers of christenings, marriages and burials, along with those of the ancient parish of Whalley 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


CHURCH-KIRK ST JAMES Chapelry  (1600) Indexes
Baptisms Marriages Burials
FS 1600-1900 1600-1901 None
LOPC 1633-1900
 		1600-1830. 1837-1894 1633-1899
LBMD None 1837-1993 None
AC 1600-1747 1600-1747 1600-1747
WHALLEY ST MARY AND ALL SAINTS PARISH (1538) Indexes (ancient parish containing CHURCH KIRK Chapelry)
Baptisms Marriages Burials
FS 1538-1888 1539-1837 None
LOPC 1538-1601, 1605-1845, 1848-1860, 1862-1875 1539-1601, 1605-1647, 1653-1900 1538-1601, 1605-1840, 1843-1891
LBMD 1837-1937 None 1837-1937
FMP None 1539-1627 None
AC 1538-1601, 1605-1653
 		1538-1601, 1605-1653
 		1538-1601, 1605-1653
FREG 1538-1631 1539-1651 1538-?


For a full list of all those chapels surrounding Church Kirk and comprising the whole ancient parish of Whalley to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the WHALLEY PARISH page.


Parish registers for Church, 1633-1948 Microfilm of original records at the Lancashire Record Office, Preston.
Church is a township-chapelry in the parish of Whalley.
Lancashire Record Office call nos. : PR 457-464; 3037/1/1-9, 11-18, 23-27; 3063/1/4

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Baptisms, 1633-1746; marriages, 1653-1656, 1673-1679, 1668-1673, 1680-1747; burials, 1675-1747.

Baptisms, 1746-1778; marriages, 1747-1779; burials, 1747-1783. Baptisms, 1779-1807; burials, 1784-1808. Baptisms, 1807-1812; burials, 1808-1812. Marriages, 1754-1777; banns, 1777-1779. Marriages, 1777-1809, 1813-1830. Churchwardens' accounts, 1710-1764.
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Baptisms, 1813-1862.
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Baptisms, 1862-1883.
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Baptisms, 1883-1948.
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Marriages, 1830-1868.
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Marriages, 1868-1908.
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Marriages, 1908-1948.
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Burials, 1813-1948.
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Baptisms, 1746-1778 (another filming); marriages, 1747-1779 (another filming); burials, 1747-1783 (another filming). Baptisms, 1779-1807 (another filming); burials, 1784-1808 (another filming). Baptisms, 1807-1812 (another filming); burials, 1808-1812 (another filming). Marriages, 1754-1777 (another filming); banns, 1777-1779 (another filming). Marriages, 1777-1809, 1813-1830 (another filming). Baptisms, 1813-1887 (another filming).
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Baptisms, 1888-1900 (another filming). Marriages, 1809-1812 (includes churchwardens' accounts, 1804-1839). Marriages, 1830-1900 (another filming). Burials, 1813-1899 (another filming).
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Bishop's transcripts of the chapelry of Church, 1600-1877. Microfilm of original records at the Lancashire Record Office, Preston.
Includes records of Christ Church in Chatburn.
Church is a township-chapelry in Whalley parish.

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Baptisms, marriages and burials 1600-1605, 1628- 1642, 1665-1770 (Church); baptisms and burials 1838-1846, 1871-1877 (Christ Church); Baptisms and burials 1771-1842, marriages 1771-1836 (Church).
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Baptisms and burials 1843-1846.
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Census records

Census records from 1841-1891 are available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library. The first film number is 306899. To view these census images online, they are available through the following websites for a fee ($) or free:

  • FamilySearch has some of the British Censuses available.
  • FindMyPast ($) has all available census records including images, and is free at Family History Centers and the Family History Library and some public and academic libraries.
  • Ancestry.co.uk ($) has now all available census records but free at Family History Centers and the Family History Library and at numerous public and academic libraries. The library versions are known as AncestryInstitution.com.
  • The Genealogist.co.uk ($) has all available censuses and is free at Family History Centers and the Family History Library and various other libraries.
  • FreeCen is a UK census searches. It is not complete and individuals are always asked to consider helping out with transcriptions.


Poor Law Unions

Blackburn 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

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Web sites

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References

  1. ↑ A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis (1848), pp. 607-612. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50877 Date accessed: Adapted. 29 June 2010.
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