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LANCASHIRE FAMILY HISTORY AND HERALDRY SOCIETY
Rossendale Branch Newsletter March 2000
Useful Websites
RECORD OFFICES:
(Details from
Genealogical Services Directory 1999) 2000 has recently been
published and may have more information
GREATER MANCHESTER
CRO. www.gmcro.u.net.com
JOHN RYLANDS
LIBRARY Special Collections http://rylibweb.man.ac.uk
KNOWSLEY LOCAL
HISTORY & ARCHIVES www.history.knowsley.gov.uk
LANCASHIRE RECORD
OFFICE www.Lancashire.com/lcc/edu/ro/index.htm
WIGAN ARCHIVE
SERVICE www.wiganmbc.gov.uk
SOCIETIES:
LANCASHIRE FHHS
www.lfhhs.mcmail.com/
LANCS PARISH
REGISTER SOCIETY.
www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LAN/lprs/
LIVERPOOL & SW
LANCS FHS www.lswlfhs.freeserve.co.uk/
MANCHESTER & LANCS
FHS
www.mlfhs.demon.co.uk/
GENUKI - (Genealogy
UK & Ireland) Information Service. www.genuki.org.uk/
GUIDES to Genealogy
on the net:
www.cyndislist.com/
www.gentway.com/
www.familytreemaker.com/links/index.html -
Family Tree Maker
Genealogical Site Finder.
FINDING SURNAMES
www.familysearch.org The LDS site
Roots
http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/
Genea/rsl
Genserv at
www.genserv.com a database of GEDCOM files.
East Lancs names:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/GAFOSTER/
Many of these site
have links to others.
For more
information see "Internet for Genealogy" by David Hawgood. 1999.
£1.60
The Cunliffe
Letters
Are you researching
the name Cunliffe? If so,
you will be
interested in some letters which were recently purchased by a local
man. It was 1830 when Jonathan Cunliffe left home to join
the Royal Marines
at Woolwich Barracks. He writes to his parents asking them to
forgive him. In later letters he tells of his experiences at sea. He
visits Naples and compares it with London and Paris. He travels to
Gibraltar and to Beirut where he was involved in the bombardment of
Sidon. He was also shipwrecked in the bay of Biscay. There are
tantalising glimpses of his home life "my wife loves another."
Jonathan, his wife and children came back to Rossendale after his
retirement. He is buried at Newchurch in 1889 aged 82. The letters
mention several names. His father John, his brothers and sisters
Henry, James, John, Alice, Betty and Ruth. Also John Taylor, Mary
Lord, Edward Lord and his brother Peter, William Redyoff and
Elizabeth Hitchon.
Coming events,
talks, conferences, exhibitions.
Saturday March
25th.
Federation of
Family History Societies. NW
Millennium
Conference.
From Manuscript to
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Hosted by Catholic
FHS N.W. at Liverpool Hope University College
9.45 Welcome
Address
10.00 Religion,
Life and Love in NE Lancashire in the Middle Ages. Dr. Paul Booth
11.15 Religion,
Records and the People. The Tudor and Stuart Parish. Dr. Janet
Hollinshead
12.30 Lunch
2.00 Non-Conformist
Records and the Family Historian
Dr. Michael Mullett
3.00 What next? Mr
Michael Gandy
Fee £15 to include
all lectures, coffee on arrival, lunch and afternoon tea at 4.00pm
Saturday 13th
May
LFHHS One Day
Conference and AGM
at the University
of Central Preston.
10.00am - 1.00pm (2
Speakers)
Anna Watson, Lancs.
R.O.
W.J. Taylor, our
President
Lunch
2.15pm (1 Speaker)
Derrick Walkden,
Heraldry in the
Shire Hall, Lancaster.
3.45pm AGM followed
by tea & departure
Bookstalls, IGI
etc.
Full Day £14.50.
AGM only, Free.
Full details will
appear in your journal.
Saturday 9th
September
The North Wales
Family History Fair
Conference Centre,
Llandudno 10.30am-4.30pm
Where to
find....
BACUP RECORDS
The following are
held at Manchester Local Studies and Archives Dept. St. Peter’s
Square, Manchester. M2 5PD
email
archives@mcrl.poptel.org.uk
St John’s Church,
Bacup:
Baptisms 1788 -
1838; Marriages 1838-1906;
at Manchester
Archives Dept.
Burials 1788 -
1853. M/c Microfilm
Christ Church:
Marriages
1855-1875. Archives
Ebenezer Chapel
(Baptist):
Births 1759-1837
M/c Microfilm.
Burials 1776-1837
M/c Mf.
Wesleyan Chapel:
Baptisms 1786-1837
M/c Mf.
Burials 1794-1837
M/c Mf.
Records held at
Rawtenstall Library:
St. John’s Church,
Bacup Bapts & Burials 1788 -1812 mfr.
Ebenezer Baptist
Bapts. 1759 -1874
Burs. 1782 -1866
mfr.
Mount Pleasant
Methodists Bapts. 1786-1950
Bapts 1786 -1950
Burials 1794-1964 Scout Bottom United Methodists. Bapts. 1863 -1975.
mfr.
Records Held at the
Lancashire R.O:
St John’s Church,
Bacup Bapts 1796-1846 Mar 1793-1837 Burs. 1793-1846 (BT- Mfr)
Ebenezer Bapts
1759-1837, Burs.1783-1806, 1812-1837 Mfr.
Irwell Terrace
Baptists bapts 1790-1840. Mfr.
Stacksteads
Primitive Meths. Mars. 1943-1951
Britannia,
Wesleyans Bapts 1873-1935
Central Wesleyans
Bapts 1862-1961
Heald Wesleyans
Mars. 1887-1911,1922-1982
Mount Pleasant
Wesleyans Bapts 1786-1951, Burs 1794-1964, Mars. 1887-1947,
1948-1962
Thorn Wesleyans
Bapts 1874-1964 Mars. 1887-1947, 1948-1962.
Wesley Place Bapts
1862-1961, Mars. 1899-1961. Original Regs. Bapts. 1786-1837, Burs.
1794-1837 Mfr.
Bacup St. Mary
Roman Catholic. Bapts 1947-1961 Mars. 1947-1954, 1961-1962.
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