GENEALOGICAL RECORDS & RESOURCES

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This page contains information relating to records and sources for anyone researching their ancestors with origins in the Darwen area.

My database covers the Blackburn Hundred (Parishes of Blackburn, Whalley, Chipping and Ribchester.

I have a database of these returns for Over Darwen covering the years 1663, 1664 & 1673.

I am in the process of entering the names contained in the Court Rolls related to the Manor of Over Darwen into a database. The database also contained the names listed in the Rental of Over Darwen for 1591.

See the information relating to the Manor of Over Darwen.

The public cemetery was opened in 1861 and extended in 1876. I have transcribed the MIs from the nonconformist sections in the original part of the cemetery.

My database cover:
     MIs over 1500







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