England
& Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index |
The ParishThe parish of Blackburn lies almost centrally within the main portion of Lancashire that is south of Morecambe Bay. Blackburn is located roughly 11 miles east of Preston and 25 miles northwest of Manchester and is one of the premier towns in the county of Lancashire. Blackburn occupies the valley of the River Darwen, a tributary of the Ribble and sits where the A666 road (Manchester through Bolton to Blackburn) crosses the A677 road arriving from Preston. Despite the parish church of St Mary being elevated to cathedral rank in 1926 Blackburn remains a mere town, something that rankles mightily with the local community. Indeed it is as a market town that Blackburn began life, a centre for local exchange and trade and a home for specialist trades that could not be supported in smaller villages. The parish of Blackburn was carved from the enormous parish of Whalley in the 16th century and Blackburn became its head and main centre. Besides the town, itself, there were numerous chapelries given the extent of the area covered and three, Great Harwood, Samlesbury & Walton le Dale, were also registered for marriages and will have their own pages within this project. The small market town that was historic Blackburn had one great advantage, the swift flowing Darwen provided cheap power for the mills which exploited cotton. Prior to the industrial revolution much of this was small-scale cottage industry until the development of steam power created the mills and factories of later years, at one time in excess of 10,000 were employed in this industry alone. Once steam was available, Blackburn's site on top of coal seams, was greatly enhanced as a centre for textile production. The coming, in turn, of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal and railways to Preston, Manchester and the higher settlements of Burnley & Colne lead to dramatic growth in Blackburn's size. From a compact small market town of fewer than 5,000 folk the town expanded until today it covers an area almost circular and 4 miles in diameter. Today the coal mines are closed and the mills have declined but Blackburn is still very much an industrial town albeit with a new multi-cultural aspect as mosques have sprung up to complement the Christian landmarks of the town. Blackburn is drained westwards by the Darwen which meets the Ribble to the southeast of Preston and from there to the nearby Irish Sea. Blackburn has a broad spectrum of height, the centre by the cathedral is sited at 110 metres above the sea whilst away from the immediate valley land rises markedly to suburbs at around 180 metres. Blackburn parish is an immense area, 14 miles in length and 10 in depth and covering in excess of 48,000 acres, the population off the whole parish rose by more than 10 fold during the period of this transcript, by its end there were over 70,000 parishioners within it. By complete contrast, Blackburn's entry in Domesday Book, it was a holding of Roger of Poitou, mentions only 25 leagues of woodland with no recorded assets other than that tract. |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
1 | 16th April 1754 - 23rd February 1762 | Lancashire Archives - Preston - Reference - PR/3073/1/27 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered combined Banns & Marriage register with 4 entries per page | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
2 | 23rd February 1762 - 25th April 1768 | Lancashire Archives - Preston - Reference - PR/3073/1/28 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 4 entries per page | Grade 1 Register - Few issues noted and a low likelihood of misreads | None |
3 | 26th Apirl 1768 - 15th June 1769 | Lancashire Archives - Preston - Reference - PR/3073/1/29 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 3 entries per page | Grade 1 Register - Few issues noted and a low likelihood of misreads | None |
4 | 18th June 1769 - 14th May 1774 | Lancashire Archives - Preston - Reference - PR/3073/1/30 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 3 entries per page | Grade 1 Register - Few issues noted and a low likelihood of misreads | None |
5 | 19th May 1774 - 28th February 1775 | Lancashire Archives - Preston - Reference - PR/3073/1/31 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 3 entries per page | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
6 | 11th August 1774 - 22nd September 1778 | Lancashire Archives - Preston - Reference - PR/3073/1/32 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 3 entries per page | Grade 1 Register - Few issues noted and a low likelihood of misreads | None |
7 | 24th September 1778 - 5th November 1784 | Lancashire Archives - Preston - Reference - PR/3073/1/33 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 3 entries per page | Grade 1 Register - Few issues noted and a low likelihood of misreads | None |
8 | 8th November 1784 - 26th September 1786 | Lancashire Archives - Preston - Reference - PR/3073/1/34 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 4 entries per page | Grade 1 Register - Few issues noted and a low likelihood of misreads | None |
9 | 28th September 1786- 7th March 1791 | Lancashire Archives - Preston - Reference - PR/3073/1/35 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 4 entries per page | Grade 3 Register - there are sufficient quality issues with this register to indicate that some misreads will occur albeit few in number | Fading of this register may result in one or two misreads |
10 | 8th March 1791 - 5th January 1792 | Lancashire Archives - Preston - Reference - PR/3073/1/36 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 4 entries per page | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
11 | 5th January 1792 - 25th June 1797 |
Lancashire Archives - Preston - Reference - PR/3073/1/37 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 4 entries per page | Grade 4 Register - there are notable quality issues with this register which may have resulted in many misreads | Fading of this register is severe resulting in a very trying read, it is likely that misreads will have occurred and there may be quite a few as a consequence. |
12 | 26th June 1798 -13th May 1801 | Lancashire Archives - Preston - Reference - PR/3073/1/38 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 4 entries per page interspersed with sections of 3 page register bound into the volume | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of
misreads |
None |
13 | 13th May 1801 - 31st December 1809 | Lancashire Archives - Preston - Reference - PR/3073/1/39 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 4 entries per page | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of
misreads |
None |
14 | 1st January 1810 - 31st December 1812 | Lancashire Archives - Preston - Reference - PR/3073/1/40 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 4 entries per page | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of
misreads |
None |
14 | 4th January 1813 - 25th May 1815 | Lancashire Archives - Preston - Reference - PR/3073/1/41 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of
misreads |
None |
15 | 27th May 1815 - 19th October 1817 | Lancashire Archives - Preston - Reference - PR/3073/1/42 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of
misreads |
None |
16 | 20th October 1817 - 11th April 1819 |
Lancashire Archives - Preston - Reference - PR/3073/1/43 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register |
Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of
misreads |
None |
17 | 11th April 1819 - 29th July 1821 | Lancashire Archives - Preston - Reference - PR/3073/1/44a | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of
misreads |
None NB this register is bound together with its successors into a single archival deposit |
18 | 29th July 1821 - 8th September 1823 | Lancashire Archives - Preston - Reference - PR/3073/1/44b | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of
misreads |
None NB this register is bound together with its predecessor & successors into a single archival deposit |
19 | 8th September 1823 -17th September 1825 | Lancashire Archives - Preston - Reference - PR/3073/1/44c | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 3 Register - there are sufficient quality issues with this
register to indicate that some misreads will occur albeit few in
number |
Fading in places within this register may lead to one or two
misreads NB this register is bound together with its predecessors & successor into a single archival deposit |
20 | 18th September 1825 -31st December 1827 | Lancashire Archives - Preston - Reference - PR/3073/1/44d | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of
misreads |
None NB this register is bound together with its predecessors into a single archival deposit |
21 | 31st December 1827 - 22nd December 1829 | Lancashire Archives - Preston - Reference - PR/3073/1/45a | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 3 Register - there are sufficient quality issues with this
register to indicate that some misreads will occur albeit few in
number |
Poor handwriting at times in this register may lead to a few
misreads NB this register is bound together with its successor into a single archival deposit |
22 | 25th December 1829 - 25th December 1831 | Lancashire Archives - Preston - Reference - PR/3073/1/45b | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of
misreads |
None NB this register is bound together with its predecessor into a single archival deposit |
23 | 24th December 1831 - 1st March 1835 | Lancashire Archives - Preston - Reference - PR/3073/1/46a | Nonstandard Rose style preprinted Marriage register, it is nonstandard in not being pre-stamped with its numbering, that being left to the clerk to complete, it is not long before that "onerous" task is ceased | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of
misreads |
None NB this register is bound together with its successor into a single archival deposit |
24 | 1st March 1835 - 28th June 1837 | Lancashire Archives - Preston - Reference - PR/3073/1/46b | Nonstandard Rose style preprinted Marriage register, it is nonstandard in not being pre-stamped with its numbering, that being left to the clerk to complete | Grade 4 Register - there are notable quality issues with this register which may have resulted in many misreads | The early part of the register suffers from poor handwriting, the latter part from both handwriting issues and fading, consultation of the extant BTs was required to make some entries legible, some misreads may still be present and there could be a few |
Preston
St John the Devine
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Ribchester
St Wildrid
Mitton All Hallows
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Walton
le DaleSt Leonard
Samlesbury St Leonard Penwortham St Mary Leyland St Andrew Hoghton Holy Trinity Brindle St James |
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Bolton
St Peter
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Bolton
St Peter
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Bolton
St Peter
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