Lancashire Record Office - Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council

__________________________________________________________________________Lancashire Record Office: What’s in it for Blackburn with Darwen?Church RecordsLancashire Record Office holds registers of baptism, marriage and burial for manyChurch of England, Roman Catholic and Nonconformist churches in the Blackburnwith Darwen areas.A comprehensive guide to the church registers we hold is available online at:http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/education/record_office/records/folk.aspChurch archives often also contain many other types of material – administrativeand financial records, photographs, plans, parish magazines, churchyard plans etc- as well as the church registers.Catalogues for many of our church collections can be found online on LANCAT(the Lancashire Record Office catalogue):http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/education/record_office/services/catalogue.aspOn A2A at:http://www.a2a.org.uk/Lancashire Record Office has been designated as diocesan record office for theAnglican diocese of Blackburn. In addition to holding records from individualchurches in the diocese, the Record Office also holds Blackburn Diocesanadministrative records (DRB) and records for Blackburn Area Deanery (RUBN) andDarwen Deanery Chapter (PR3147 acc 9706).Lancashire Record Office also functions as diocesan record office for the RomanCatholic diocese of Salford, which includes the Blackburn and Darwen area. Inaddition to holding records from individual churches in the diocese, the RecordOffice holds 'register returns' for many of the Roman Catholic parishes among thediocesan archive collection (RCSF). Not all of these are fully open to publicinspection.The Record Office also holds a lot of non-register material for Non-Conformistchurches including:• Circuit plans, minutes and other administrative records from the 1780s forBlackburn Methodist Circuit (MBN), and for Darwen Methodist Circuit (MDA)• Records of the Blackburn Preparative meeting of the Society of Friends,1824-1979 (FRP18). This meeting was affiliated to the Preston MonthlyMeeting until 2002 and to the Marsden Monthly Meeting from 1 Jan 2003;records relating to Blackburn Quakers will be found in those collections.• Congregational Union administrative records for Blackburn district,1830-1972(CUBK) as well as non-register material for Congregational and UnitedReformed churches in Blackburn (CUBL), Darwen (CUDA) and Edgworth(CUED).46