church records

[kevsjules]

Could anyone help me out with church records or direct which sites to go to around Lancashire, manchester, west derby. Im in Aistralia and am trying to locate a marriage.
                thanks julie

[Jane Eden]

Hi

Can you give more details. What county or place, about what year, names of the people.

A good start is

http://www.familysearch.org/

for dates up to 1900.

Also

http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/

between 1837 and 1900.

If you know the county and a few details put a post on the appropriate county look up requests. If it is before 1837 this may be the best place to go. For example for Nottinghamshire I have a CD from about 1633 - 1900 but it covers 1750-1900 best.

Jane

[kevsjules]

trying to find marriage of ada purcell to james charles webb, my dads parents he born 1929. Birth cert has reg district manchester south sub dis Didsbury, his parents living egremont avenue withington

[Manchester Rambler]

You can find the marriage at 1837online, a pay-per-view site, at
http://www.1837online.com/Trace2web/

However, it can sometimes work out a bit expensive, especially if you don't have a date for the marriage - you'll have to work back from your father's birth (or oldest known sibling).

Lancashire BMD http://www.lancashirebmd.org.uk/  hasn't transcribed the marriage you're looking for yet, but new data is being added all the time, so worth checking back.

FreeBMD http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl only goes up to 1911 at present, and like Lancashire BMD isn't complete  - depends how long after the marriage your father was born.

Rambler

[Nick Carver]

If you want to take a slightly different approach and search the records of a particular parish for somebody specific, try this site which arranges the records that are found on Familysearch by parish http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/ I have to say that I have found records in this way that I have been unable to uncover on the LDS site, so it is worth a try.

This site is particularly useful for tracing sibilings. If you find the parish in which your ancestor was baptised, the chances are that his siblings were baptised there also and that saves trawling through piles of records, particularly if you are researching a fairly common name. I then tend to look in adjacent parishes (especially in cities) for any gaps.