St Jame's Church Clitheroe

[RayG]

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.

[celia]

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


Celia

[RayG]

Thank you for the link Celia. 

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.

[celia]

Your welcome

[James1950]

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.

[royd]

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

[James1950]

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

[RayG]

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

[Aulus]

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.