CD 001 - The Young Family Historian 
A young (and possibly not so young) person's guide to genealogy, written by Bill Taylor. Price £4.50, plus p&p.
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This is a book, written specifically for teenagers fascinated by the origins and stories of their families. The book, published on a CD in Adobe Acrobat format, describes the necessary steps required to start researching family history. The language and presentation are aimed at young people, but the content applies equally to the new and not so knowledgeable family historians, whatever their age. 
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CD 002 - Church & Clayton le Moors Cemetery, Dill Hall Lane, Church (Accrington) - Burial Registers 1889 -1999
Transcribed from the original Registers by members of the Society. Fully searchable Acrobat (pdf) format.

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The CD contains details of 15,950 burials in Adobe Acrobat format, which is fully 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 plot 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 check the grave occupancy. 

The bulk of the burials (14,219) are from addresses in Church, Clayton le Moors, Accrington and Oswaldtwistle with the remainder from the surrounding area, other parts of Lancashire, and a few from other counties and overseas.
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Transcribed from microfiche and film by members of the Society - Fully searchable Acrobat (pdf) format. 

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The CD contains a full transcription for the parishes of Hutton, Longton, Little Hoole, Much Hoole and Walmer Bridge. Each of the 7 census years is presented in two formats; As Enumerated and sorted in Name Order, the former permits the researcher to view the entire household. The leftmost column of each data set is a person's identity-no, introduced by the author as a key field to cross-reference the information. 

There are two articles, reprinted from the 'Preston Guardian' written immediately before and after the 1901 census. Statistics include a 'league table' of surnames for the area showing the rise and fall of the male-line during the 60-year period and for the 1901 census only, those boys who were later to die as the result of hostilities during the Great War of 1914-18.
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Burials transcribed and independently checked by members of the Society and, for part of the MIs, the Burnley Historical Society - Fully searchable Acrobat (pdf) format. 

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The CD contains details of 17,119 burials recorded in eight burial registers, which includes 319 from the current register at the Church. The registers are presented in Date Order and sorted in Name Order. With a few exceptions, the information is limited to entry-no & volume, date of burial, full name, age and residence and the Minister's name. 

Although a parish church, up to 1856 it was, in effect, the town cemetery and many Roman Catholics are buried there; these are recorded. The bulk of the addresses are from Burnley and Habergham Eaves, the adjoining township. There are approximately 730 MIs with plot numbers and location plans. 

Some 70 of these are inside the Church, which include war memorials, a mining disaster and a list of clergy. The Latin inscriptions have translations. Also included are images of some early engravings of the church, some modern photographs and the frequency of Surnames in the burial registers.
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Transcribed from film by 'local' members of the Society - Fully searchable Acrobat (pdf) format. 

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It is intended as a Finding Aid produced by local people, to complement the census images on CD or Microfiche. The CD contains the Forename, Surname, Age, Relationship to 'head' and Township of the census cross-referenced to the Piece No, Folio and Page for every person. It does not show specific addresses, marriage status, occupations or place of birth. 

The 17-Piece Nos cover a population of 87,364 in 18,856 households in Barrowford, Brierfield, Colne, Foulridge, Higham, Nelson, Pendleside villages, Reedley, Trawden, Winewall and the areas of West Yorkshire, which include Admergill, Barnoldswick, Bracewell, Brogden, Coates, Earby, Kelbrook, Martons Both and Thornton in Craven. The information is displayed in two tables; Surname Order (the Index) and 'As Enumerated,' where the composition of each household is shown in each Enumeration District. Also included are two frequency of Surnames tables
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Transcribed from film by 'local' members of the Society - Fully searchable Acrobat (pdf) format. 

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This CD is produced from the rescripted text of a survey of the church and churchyard by members and friends of the Wiswell Women's Institute in the years 1982

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Transcribed from the Original Registers by members of the Lancashire Family History and Heraldry Society - Fully searchable Acrobat (pdf) format. 

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17206 burials sorted by Date, name and Burial Plot. Data includes Age, Full name, Relationship, Place and date of death.  Mainly for the towns of  GREAT HARWOOD and RISHTON, but also Blackburn, Accrington, Clayton le Moors, Blackpool, Oswaldtwistle, Burnley, Clitheroe and many other local towns. How to Buy

Including registers of early non-conformist baptisms.

Baptism register of Rev Peter Walkden, 1709 - 1769
Baptism register of Rev Henry Walkden, 1747 - 1793
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For chapels at Garsdale, Chipping, Newton, Hesketh Lane, Holcome, Stockport Old Chapel, Tingtwistle, Heaviley Hall nr Stockport, Wimondhouses Newton and Hesketh Lane. Edited by G A Foster. This CD is based on a book published by the author in 1996. How to Buy

Originally Published by Coulton and Co. - Fully searchable Acrobat (pdf) format. 

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For the most part the chapters are complied from the news pages of "The Leader" with letters from the front, list of Fallen Heroes, and Roll of Honour.
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The CD contains a list of all the people in the Society's pedigree database -fully searchable Acrobat (pdf) format. The database contains over 2,700 pedigrees and 80,000 individuals that have been submitted over the past 30 years.

Every named person in the database is listed together with the five main events of their life - birth, baptism, marriage, death and burial. Not all these events will be listed if they were not known when the pedigree was submitted.

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This CD contains a digitised version of the book that was first published by the Lancashire Family History & Heraldry Society in 1999. It is not only an account of the Shuttleworth family, but it provides invaluable background information for both family and local historians.

Family historians, and those interested in heraldry, will be fascinated by the unique fireplace inscriptions and the wooden shields of Gawthorpe which, when interpreted, give an exceptional insight into the Shuttleworth family and their network of family connections.

Those interested in local history will be intrigued by the wealth of detail about other local families and of the unusual terms associated found in the records that have been compiled in the glossary. In addition to the Shuttleworth family the CD contains over 160 different family names, together with some 200 place names and a detailed glossary, all of which make it an invaluable resource for local and family researchers.

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This is the history of an obscure family living on the Lancashire-Yorkshire borders, a history more genealogical than biographical because nothing is recorded of many of its members but the occasions of their baptisms, marriages and burials, and even these details are not always complete. This scarcity of information has greatly complicated Roger Pye’s task and inevitably there has arisen the possibility of confusion of identity in a number of cases.

Following his research Roger compiled an interim edition but this was never published. More recently Roger’s brother, Anthony, resumed the research and prepared this publication.

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The surname of Marsden is of Anglo Saxon origin, and is a locational name from places called Marsden in Lancashire, and the West Riding of Yorkshire. It is derived from the Old English "mearc" meaning boundary, and "denu", valley; hence, "a valley forming a natural boundary". The original book by the Revd Benjamin Anderton Marsden, James Aspinall Marsden & Robert Sydney Marsden was published in 1914 and the authors have used public records, wills and other documents from private sources to trace the family and its several branches from 1194 to the beginning of the 20th century. The book contains a number of family trees and illustrations of various coats of arms for the family.

Apart from detailing the Marsdens of Lancashire the book also covers the families in Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Essex and Dublin. The Lancashire townships include: Bolton, Darwen, Lower Hoddlesden, Darwen, Liverpool, Manchester, Marsden, Pendleton, Whalley, Pleasington, Tockholes, Wigan

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The CD contains all the monumental inscriptions from when the cemetery opened in 1864 to 2009.

During this period 61,001 burials took place. There are many local prominent people buried in this cemetery including William Barnes of Accrington House, cotton manufacturer and one of the chief advocates for this municipal cemetery. His was the first burial on the 10th October 1864 - see page 2 of the cemetery images. Also of note, the Bury Family of Arden Hall, who owned many Mills in Accrington and Benjamin Hargreaves, one of the family who created Broad Oak printing works and the School of his name. The MIs also detail deaths that occurred outside the area for example, Australia, France, India, South Africa, USA.

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The CD contains the monumental inscriptions from when the cemetery opened in 1873.

There are many prominent people buried in this cemetery including Samuel Layock, the Lancashire dialect poet; George Washington Williams, the Afro-American historian who died who died on his way back to America from Africa; Dick Barlow, who played cricket for England and Edwin Hughes the last survivor of the Charge of the Light Brigade.

The MIs were first published by the LFHHS on microfiche between 1992 and 1998, but two small sections were omitted from the microfiche. These two sections are included on the CD.

The CD includes a Name Index and two plans; one that shows the locations of the graves by plot numbers and the other which shows the location of the graves by the MI reference numbers.

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Andrew Todd's map of Lancashire 1851 is a MUST for anyone researching their Lancashire roots. The map shows

- Registration Districts of Births, Marriages & Deaths
- Registration Sub-Districts
- Parishes
- Townships
 -Churches: all Anglican churches in existence in 1851 with their
dedications and dates of their earliest registers.

The map was first produced in 1983 and has been out of print for many years. With Andrew's help the Lancashire Family History & Heraldry Society has now reproduced the map in digital form on CD. (It is also available in A1 Print format)

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This volume is the story of an Accrington lad from the generation after the Accrington Pals, but from the same mould and fashioned in the same school of hard knocks. It has been painstakingly researched by John Porter who used a wide range of sources, including Ministry of Defence records and contacting contemporaries of Thomas. Sadly it echoes the stories we are getting today of our men and boys fighting, and dying, overseas. Tom is commemorated on the Air Forces Memorial at Runnymede which names over 20,000 airmen who
were lost in the Second World War during operations from bases in the United Kingdom and North and Western Europe, and who have no known graves.

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Researching the history of Peter YOXALL & Martha BRERETON has been a labour of love for James, even though he is not related to them.
During the research he has met many kind and lovely people who were only too pleased to help record their family history. Hopefully, this book will do justice to this remarkable family. After several years research James can now prove that, without exception, every YOXALL in the area stem from just one couple, Peter & Martha. Despite having 16 children there is now only one male YOXALL in the area. Sadly, Peter YOXALL was killed by a train in a horrific accident whilst carrying out his work as a Platelayer on the Railways. Did you know that Johnny YOXALL of Nelson, one of the few ordinary people to have the privilege of meeting King Edward VIII before he abdicated. The King spent half an hour watching Johnny's Meccano Model Looms weave a variety of products at a London Exhibition. And what about Harry YOXALL, the superior Burnley grocers whose shop was referred to as the Harrod's of the North and, back in 1920, offered same day home delivery by their own van! Though this work is extensive it is possible there is much more to add to this family's history. If you are connected to the descendants of Peter & Martha then root out those old photos and memories of your YOXALL ancestors, send them to James so that he can update the history of your line and others can see why he believe YOXALL of Brierfield really is a family of substance.

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The CD contains the following information: Memorial Inscriptions - surveyed in the mid 1990's; Grave Books - 1870 - 1990's; Receipt Books - 1870 - 1962 (1914 - 1937 are missing); Plot Boards - showing the grave number and the purchaser. The information may show: The type of grave; The name of the person who purchased the grave; The people in the grave with Name, Address, Date of Burial & Age at death; Memorial Inscriptions (if any); Stonemason's name (if any)

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The CD contains transcriptions and images of the memorials in the graveyard and church.

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The CD contains the baptisms (1912-1951) sorted into alphabetical order.

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The CD contains the MIs and images for the ancient church of St Michael the Archangel.

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The CD contains the MIs and images for the ancient church of St Michael the Archangel.

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Ray Smith, Chairman of the Blackburn Local History Society, has developed an extensive database of prominent people of Blackburn and district that covers the period 1100 - 1899. Information has been obtained from books, trade directories, deeds, conveyances, wills, ephemera and the world-wide-web. The database runs to over 1,300 pages and is presented century-by-century. For the early periods Ray included anyone who lived in Blackburn. However, as he progressed through the centuries he had to become more specific on who were included. The criteria for the 19th century has been Mayors, Aldermen, Councillors, JPs, industrialists, scholars, solicitors etc, etc. In addition he has included international sportsmen and women as well as actors and actresses of national merit.

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