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Title: St Jame's Church Clitheroe
Post by: RayG on Wednesday 27 January 10 14:32 GMT (UK)

I am trying to find there records on the internet but with no success.

 Does anybody know where I could get a look at them? I cannot travel so please only internet sites.

Thanks in advance.

Ray.

Title: Re: St Jame's Church Clitheroe
Post by: celia on Wednesday 27 January 10 23:27 GMT (UK)

Hello Ray Welcome to rootschat
You will find some Clitheroe records on here
http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/home.html


Celia

Title: Re: St Jame's Church Clitheroe
Post by: RayG on Thursday 28 January 10 07:09 GMT (UK)

Thank you for the link Celia.  :D

Have checked this site and did not find St Jame's church of Clitheroe, I guess they have not done the records for this church yet.

Still a good site you gave me, thanks again.

Title: Re: St Jame's Church Clitheroe
Post by: celia on Thursday 28 January 10 20:52 GMT (UK)

Your welcome ;D

Title: Re: St Jame's Church Clitheroe
Post by: James1950 on Thursday 28 January 10 21:48 GMT (UK)

If you cannot find your answer in the St James records I have a copy of the parish church records 1570 to 1680 for the Parish Church of St Mary Magdalene Clitheroe.

Title: Re: St Jame's Church Clitheroe
Post by: royd on Thursday 28 January 10 21:58 GMT (UK)

You could always google the church and send an email to them asking where their records are kept.   :) R.

Title: Re: St Jame's Church Clitheroe
Post by: James1950 on Thursday 28 January 10 22:01 GMT (UK)

I should have pointed out that St James's was not founded until 1838 .

Title: Re: St Jame's Church Clitheroe
Post by: RayG on Friday 29 January 10 06:06 GMT (UK)

Thank you all very much for your help, it is so refreshing to know there is genuine helpful people out there. :)

Title: Re: St Jame's Church Clitheroe
Post by: Aulus on Thursday 04 February 10 14:57 GMT (UK)

Lancashire Records Office in Preston has the following:

Baptisms 1839-1950
Marriages 1861-1946
Burials 1840-1919

Searching for baptism and burials is more time consuming as they're not indexed.  However, for church marriages, the registers are the same as the registers sent to the superintendent registrar/GRO and so if you search www.lancashirebmd.org.uk and find a marriage you'd like details of, then the name of the church and the lancashirebmd reference number points to an exact entry in the register (the final two or three digits are the entry number in the register).  You could then post a lookup request (on the Lancashire lookup requests board here) and give church, year and lancsbmd reference number, and some kind person may be able to look it up for you.

Some records office offer searches (paid for unless it takes them less than 5 mins or so) and will make copies and send them to you, but looking at the LRO website, they're a bit coy about whether they do that or not.  Probably don't want to be swamped.