Burnley St Peter, Lancashire Genealogy

England Lancashire  Lancashire Parishes



Chapelry History
The Diocese of Blackburn is a Church of England diocese, covering much of Lancashire, created in 1926 from part of the Diocese of Manchester. The Diocese includes the towns of Blackburn, Blackpool, Burnley, and the cities of Lancaster, and Preston, as well as a large part of the Ribble Valley.

"BURNLEY, a market-town and a parochial chapelry [as of 1562], and the head of a union, in the parish of Whalley, Higher division of the hundred of Blackburn, N. division of the county of Lancaster, 25 miles north of Manchester, comprising the townships of Burnley, Habergham-Eaves, Ightenhill Park, Reedley Hollows, Briercliffe-cum-Extwistle, Worsthorn-with-Hurstwood, and Cliviger.

Here is a list of chapelries attached to the parochial chapelry of Burnley:


 * Burnley St Peter - 1562
 * Burnley St James - 1846
 * Burnley St Paul's Lane-Bridge -
 * Briercliffe -
 * Habergham
 * Holme -
 * Worsthorn -

There were places of worship built for the Baptists, Independents, Primitive Methodists, Wesleyan Methodists, and Roman Catholics (1846).

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis (1848), pp. 440-445. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50845 Date accessed: 25 June 2010.

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

Church records
Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

Burnley- St Peter Baptisms Transcript-1562-1653- 929.3272 B22 Baptisms Transcript-1653-1690- Archives LPRS Transcript Baptisms Transcript-1653-1690- 929.342764 Bu(456) Burials Transcript-1562-1653- 929.3272 B22 Burials Transcript-1653-1695- Archives LPRS Transcript Burials Transcript-1653-1691- 929.342764 Bu(456) Marriage Index-1813-1837- Rossendale Fiche B26 Marriages Transcript-1562-1653- 929.3272 B22 Marriages Transcript-1653-1688- Archives LPRS Transcript Marriages Transcript-1653-1688- 929.342764 Bu(456)

For the originals of the above please enquire at Lancashire Record Office.

The Manchester Room and Greater Manchester County Record Office Email: archiveslocalstudies@manchester.gov.uk

The Manchester Room@City Library (Local Studies)

Census records
http://www.1881pubs.com/ for details of public houses in the 1881 census

Poor Law Unions
Burnley 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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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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