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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 <Website>
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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