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CD 006 - The PARISH CHURCH of ST.MARY &
ALL SAINTS, Whalley, Lancashire. |
- Surveyed and recorded by the Members and Friends of Wiswell Women's Institute during the year 1982 and published in two small volumes by the Lancashire Family History & Heraldry Society in 1987. Now re-published here on CD in 2008 in a word searchable Acrobat (.pdf) format.
Price £4.50 plus p & p.
The CD contains details of the 782 Memorial Inscriptions, which were decipherable at the time of the survey in 1982, together with a 2,420 full name index of the persons recorded on these stones.
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CD 007 - GREAT HARWOOD Cemetery, Blackburn
Road, Great Harwood, Lancashire. |
- Transcribed from the original Registers by members of the Society in word-searchable Acrobat (.pdf) format.
Price £9.50 plus p & p.
The CD contains details of 17,206 burials in Adobe Acrobat format, which is word searchable. In most instances, each record includes the date, full name, age, description of relationship or status, the place of death and/or residence and the grave identity. The information is presented in 3 separate tables, sorted in date order, surname/forename order and grave plot order - the latter allows the researcher to easily check the grave occupancy. The bulk of the burials (14,400) are from addresses in Great Harwood and Rishton, although their deaths may have been recorded at the Blackburn or Accrington Hospitals. The remaining burials are from the surrounding area, other parts of Lancashire, and a few from other counties and overseas.
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CD 008 - DIARY of The Rev. PETER WALKDEN for
1725, 1729, 1730 |
- A digitised copy of the 1996 printed edition in word-searchable Acrobat (.pdf) format.
Price £4.50 plus p & p.
Peter Walkden performed an important service to history by keeping a diary in which he recorded all the ordinary events of his daily life. Through his diary, local and family historians can gain an insight into what life was like in rural Lancashire over 250 years ago. In addition to maintaining a diary Rev. Peter Walkden and his son, Rev. Henry Walkden, recorded the baptisms they performed in a private notebook. The diary was first published in 1866, by William Dobson and had been out of print for over 100 years. When, in 1996, the Lancashire Family History & Heraldry Society produced a new edition, with improved typeface, that contained extracts omitted from the first edition and also included the two baptismal registers of (17091769) and (1747-1793) respectively.
Although word- searchable, this edition contains an index of over 300 different names and an index of places.
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CD 009 - "NELSON LEADER" LOCAL WAR RECORD 1914-1915 |
- A digitised copy a book first published in 1915 by Coulton & Co., publisher of The Nelson Leader newspaper, in wordsearchable Acrobat (.pdf) format.
Price £4.50 plus p & p.
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" It is fitting that the local record of this historic time should be preserved in compendious form. This is the purpose of the present publication. Of interest today, it will be of no less interest and value tomorrow. It will serve to show in years to come, how we in this corner of North East Lancashire, rose to the demands of an unparalleled crisis .. " |
For the most part, the chapters are compiled from the news-pages of the "Nelson Leader." The book is almost exclusively devoted to a record of the first year of the war, as it affected the immediate locality and families. It contains as full a list as it was possible to compile, of the local men who responded to the call of their King and Country.
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Connections with the Inghamites and Rex Watson
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Rex Watson, one of our branch members, has published a booklet on the origins of Haggate Baptist Chapel. Considerable 'folklore' has perhaps grown up around the origins of the church. This publication attempts to assess the previously accepted version, presents some new primary evidence, and looks in depth at connections with the Inghamites, also with the relatively obscure Sandemanians (of Scottish origin). A database of people, involved in the second half of the 18th century, may particularly be of interest to family historians. It is generally available for purchase at Burnley Library, Pendle Heritage Centre, and locally in Briercliffe from John Bentley, (he is involved with the Briercliffe Society and the church itself) at a cost of £3. Alternatively it can be purchased directly from Rex WATSON, 29 Woodland Road, SAWSTON, CAMBRIDGE, CB22 3DT at a cost of £3.50 to include postage & packing. Payment by cheque please. |
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