Colne, Lancashire Genealogy

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Colne

Guide to Colne, Lancashire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: chapelry register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Colne, Lancashire
Type	Ecclesiastical Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
Hundred	Blackburn
County	Lancashire
Poor Law Union	Burnley
Registration District	Burnley
Records begin
Parish registers: 1599; Separate registers exist for Trawden beginning 1846
Bishop's Transcripts: 1602
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery	Whalley
Diocese	Manchester
Province	York
Legal Jurisdictions
Probate Court	Court of the Bishop of Chester (Episcopal Consistory)
Location of Archive
Lancashire Record Office

Chapelry History

Colne St Bartholomew was erected as an ancient chapel of ease, and in operation by 1599, taken from and lying within the boundaries of Whalley Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Foulridge and Barrowford Booth.

Originally in the Diocese of Chester ( registers begin in 1599) it became part of the Whalley Deanery in The Diocese of Manchester in 1847
The Diocese of Blackburn is a Church of England diocese, covering much of Lancashire, created in 1926 from part of the Diocese of Manchester. The Diocese includes the towns of Blackburn, Blackpool, Burnley, and the cities of Lancaster, and Preston, as well as a large part of the Ribble Valley.

COLNE, a market-town and parochial chapelry, in the parish of Whalley, union of Burnley, Higher division of the hundred of Blackburn, N. division of the county of Lancaster, 35 miles (S. E.) from Lancaster, and 217 (N. N. W.) from London. This parochial chapelry included at least the following 5 chapels of ease:

• Great Marsden - 1847
• Little Marsden - 1835
• Colne Christ Church - 1836
• Barrowford St. Thomas - 1838
• Trawden St Mary - 1844

This chapelry also included the town of Foulridge.

There were places of worship for Baptists, Independents, Wesleyan Methodists, and Primitive Methodists.

Resources

Civil Registration

Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

Online index of Lancashire Births, Marriages and Deaths Lancashire BMD

Lancashire Online Parish Clerks

An extremely useful resource for research in Lancashire Parishes http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/

Church records

Online Records

• 1538 - 1910 England, Lancashire, Parish Registers 1538-1910 at FamilySearch — index
• 1603 - 1910 England, Lancashire, Cheshire, Yorkshire, Parish Registers, 1603-1910 at FamilySearch — index and images.

Church of England

Colne St. Bartholomew chapelry's registers of christenings, marriages and burials, along with those of the ancient parish of Whalley to which it is attached, have been mostly transcribed and are displayed online at the following web sites and ranges of years:

FS = FamilySearch.org

LOPC = Lancashire Online Parish Clerk project

FMP = findmypast

LBMD = LancashireBMD.org.uk

AC = Ancestry.co.uk

FREG = FreeReg

COLNE ST BARTHOLOMEW Chapelry  (1599) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	1599-1900	1599-1900	1599-1835
LOPC	1599-1900	1599-1645, 1654-1900	1599-1650, 1653-1899
LBMD	1837-1942	1837-1982	1837-1968
FMP	None	1599-1644	None
AC	1599-1653	1599-1653	1599-1653
FREG	1599-1653, 1790-1812	1599-1640	1599-1616, 1630-1650
WHALLEY ST MARY AND ALL SAINTS PARISH (1538) Indexes (ancient parish containing COLNE ST BARTHOLOMEW Chapelry)
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	1538-1888	1539-1837	None
LOPC	1538-1601, 1605-1845, 1848-1860, 1862-1875	1539-1601, 1605-1647, 1653-1900	1538-1601, 1605-1840, 1843-1891
LBMD	1837-1937	None	1837-1937
FMP	None	1539-1627	None
AC	1538-1601, 1605-1653	1538-1601, 1605-1653	1538-1601, 1605-1653
FREG	1538-1631	1539-1651	1538-?

For a full list of all those chapels surrounding Colne St. Bartholomew and comprising the whole ancient parish of Whalley to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the WHALLEY PARISH page.

Colne- St Bartholomew
Baptisms Transcript-1599-1653- 929.3272 C10
Baptisms Transcript-1654-1697- Archives LPRS Transcript
Baptisms Transcript-1774-1789- 929.3272 Co7
Baptisms Transcript-1790-1812- Q929.3272 Co10 or Rossendale Fiche C15
Burials Transcript-1599-1650- 929.3272 C10
Burials Transcript-1654-1734- Archives LPRS Transcript
Burials Transcript-1774-1789- 929.3272 Co7
Burials Transcript-1790-1812- Q929.3272 Co4
Marriage Index-1813-1837- Rossendale Fiche C11
Marriages Transcript-1599-1644- 929.3272 C10
Marriages Transcript-1654-1754- 929.342764 Wh1

For original registers of above please enquire at Lancashire Record Office.

The Manchester Room and Greater Manchester County Record Office
Email: archiveslocalstudies@manchester.gov.uk

The Manchester Room@City Library (Local Studies)

Census records

Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.

Genealogy

Stott, Brian. Towler of Colne and Burnley.  Family History article of John Towler of Colne marrying Judith Robinson from the parish of Clapham at Colne in 1761, and the descendants, scattering through Yorkshire and London. to be found in The Lancashire Family History and Heraldry Society Magazine, vol. 16. no.1.page 40-43. FHL Ref 942.72 B2r

Poor Law Unions

Burnley Poor Law Union,Lancashire

Probate records

Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Lancashire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Maps and Gazetteers

Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.

• England Jurisdictions 1851
• Vision of Britain

Websites

Colne on GENUKI

Family History Library