Genealogy Chat

Doh!! Jim in So'ton, I wish I'd thought of that!! LOL Chris

Daniel If you're researching family history in Lancashire, you might find the following site useful: www(.) lan-opc(.)org(.)uk remove brackets. The marriage entries for St Mary, Leigh, do appear on this site, but unfortunately only up to 1799. There are also some burials. If you have other connections to this parish, you might want to take a look. If you like, I can personally check out your enquiry for you as I don't live too far away and have access to the records on microfilm. Regards Amanda

Sorry Amanda - didn't mean to duplicate but I must have posted at nearly the same time! Dear Daniel If you go on the Lancs OPC site there's a really nice old engraving of St Mary's church together with a history of it. Unfortunately the marriage and burials don't go far enough for your query but it's definitely worth a look. Website address is www(.)lan-opc(.)org(.)uk - remove brackets. Best of luck Maria

Hi amanda Your offer of checking out the info for me sounds wonderful. If its not to much trouble. Ill pm you with the details if you want? Mant thanks Danny

It is much simpler to click on name(family search) scroll to bottom of page click 'source' Parish registers, 1701-1839 Church of England. St. Mary-the-Virgin Church (Leigh, Lancashire)

Thankyou 'if only i knew' and jim Iv just emailed lancs archives with the film or fiche number and i will now see if i can contact the LDS and see if they can help. Many thanks Danny

This info is from the Family Search site. Place Locator (top of screen) If you copy and paste this, then contact LDS (Latter Day Saints) Records.... Danny. Looks like the date your after. Good Luck. Title Church records, 1189-1916 Authors Church of England. St. Mary-the-Virgin Church (Leigh, Lancashire) (Main Author) Notes Microfilm of original records. Includes: item 1. inventory of records, church-wardens accounts and vestry minutes, 1720-1898; item 2. The church, its vicars, church- wardens etc., 1189-1916; item 3. burial grounds and gravestones, plans, etc., 1779-1847; item 5. notes, lectures on history of church, 1620-1909; item 6. schools and charities, including Leigh Grammar School, 1624-1905. Subjects England, Lancashire, Leigh - Church records Format Manuscript (On Film) Language English Publication Manchester : Filmed by the Public Library, 1971 Physical 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. Film Notes Note - Location [Film] Church records - FHL BRITISH Film [ 865051 Items 1-3 ] Church records - FHL BRITISH Film [ 865051 Items 5 - 6 ] update... does not say Marriages! but, might give you an idea how to get them sorry, bum steer '-(

Thankyou very much You learn something new everyday And theres me thinking id have to go through heaps of parish registers just to find my couple. So thankyou again Danny:)

You're welcome, Danny. :-) I looked on the Genuki website - you can keep refining the area of interest, i.e. UK, then England, then Lancashire, then there's a link at the top of the Lancashire page which brings up towns and parishes in the county. You will eventually get to this page for Leigh: http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LAN/Leigh/ Click on the Church Records link at the left hand side of the little map and you get a list of all the churches. The IGI usually mentions if it's anything other than a C of E church, so looking at the two C of E churches in the list, St Mary's is the only one which existed in 1826, although not in its present form by the looks of things. Chris

Thankyou 'if only i knew' will look at the site you recomended. And thankyou christine How did you get the parish up? Danny

Danny Have you been to the Genuki site? has heaps of information... http://www.genuki.org.uk/contents/ you probably know this already, They have a Search thing (top right) that you can put whatever in and the results will keep you busy for hours :-) Good Luck.

Thankyou georgina Will dig a little deeper and see if i can come up with something from both you information. Danny

Hi Daniel, I see the IGI entry you're referring to is an 'extracted' entry, so it will be transcribed from the parish register for the place mentioned. In this case, it means that the couple were married in the parish church of Leigh, which is St Mary the Virgin on St Mary's Way, Leigh. Chris

This is the info about Leigh from the 1841 census on Ancestry. Please choose a sub-registration district in Leigh: Atherton and Tyldesley Culcheth Lowton Census Records - Sub-Registration Districts Occasionally, counties will contain parishes with the same name or a large parish might include multiple instances of an Enumeration District number. Sub-registration districts, which are a related to civil registration districts, are then used to distinguish which parish or part of a parish is referenced Georgina.

Thanks for your help. Im trying to find the parish that james hodson and elizabeth brown were married in on the 23rd january 1826. All it says is leigh lancs on the IGI. Thanks again Danny

Hello Daniel. Had a look and a Google but nothing for the date your after, maybe this might help? In 1835 the parish of Leigh contained the townships of Atherton, Tyldesley with Shakerley, Westleigh, Pennington, Bedford and Astley. from Genuki site.

parish's there were in leigh lancashire in the year 1826. Thankyou Danny