Genealogy Chat

Lancs Records Office is in Bow Lane, in Preston city centre, if that helps. It's across the road, to the left and down another street as you come out of the train station, or there's a big car park behind the Fishergate Shopping Centre, too.

Thank you all for the advice, sorry late with thank you.I was scanning the other wibe site recommended.
Wonderful to know so many of you help others.

God bless
Susi

the reply i posted was a link to the thread from oc but as you said you are a computer novice i thought that would be an easier way to find it

To my mind, Bolton's a bit of a vague concept - the parish has several chapelries, as does the parish of Deane (which certainly lies in Greater Bolton).

Lewis (1848): BOLTON-LE-MOORS (St. Peter), a parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of Salford, S. division of the county of Lancaster; comprising the borough and market-town of Bolton, the chapelries of Blackrod, Bradshaw, Harwood, Little Lever, and Turton, and the townships of Anglezarke, Breightmet, Edgeworth, Entwistle, DarcyLever, Longworth, Lostock, Quarlton, Rivington, Sharples, and Tonge with Haulgh; and containing 73,905 inhabitants, of whom 33,610 are in Great, and 16,153 in Little, Bolton, 43 miles (S. S. E.) from Lancaster, and 197 (N. W. by N.) from London. ...
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.aspx?pubid=445
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/place.aspx?gid=20®ion=6

Now I just did a search in 1828-1832 at:
http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/Search/indexp.html
and got one suitable hit, namely the one posted above by Potty, but I didn't check whether all relevant registers were transcribed.

Could be this one - from Lancashire on line parish clerk site which has loads of parish record transcriptions for Lancashire
http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/

Marriage: 11 Oct 1829 St Peter, Bolton, Lancashire, England
William Smith - of This parish
Jane Grundy - of This parish

But with a name like Smith! Did they have any children after 1837? A birth cert of one would confirm Jane's maiden name.

Susan you have a couple of options.

As suggested above, you can look at the Family Search site. Be careful though. In the IGI records (International Genealogical Index) you might get excited to find your ancestor, also finding that more information on other members of that family is added.
Looking further down the page you should check to see if the information is submitted or extracted. It will say something like "submitted by a member of the LDS church etc etc etc".
If it's 'submitted' rather than 'extracted' you have reason to be wary and should always check the given information, because it means that someone, just like you or me, has submitted that information voluntarily, rather than it being extracted from official records. Humans make mistakes and, as has been proven many times, the submitted information could be wrong and misleading because the person who submitted it hadn't done a thorough job of checking their information first against official records.

To check official records you could take a trip to the County Records Office (wherever it is in Lancashire) and look through the Parish Registers yourself.

Or you could ask on here. Many GR members hold copies of various county records and will do a look up for you.

Good luck.

K

hi this a thread from this site it is self explanatory just copy the address into your address bar at the top and click enter

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards.asp?wci=thread&tk=700931

Hi Gwyn
I am new to computers and family research and slow at the typing skills so slow responding,forgive me. I dont know how to get IGI . Do I just Google in Familysearch?

Thanks for the info
Susi

Have you looked at the IGI on familysearch site?

Gwyn

Hi Stormchaser
Thank you for answering.
I am looking for the marriage of William Smith (yes a dreaded Smith} to Jane ? Bolton Lancashire between 1828-1832

Great if you can help
Susi

some places have parish records available

who are you looking for - someone on here may find them for you

stephanie

Can someone help? Where do I look for marriages before 1837.
Free BMD only go to this date.
I am looking for a marriage 1829 -1832
Thank you for any help