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LANCASHIRE - HISTORY, ANCESTRY & GENEALOGY

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The Digital Library is proud to present this stunning virtual archive of 217 rare, vintage and hard-to-find books and documents compiled together for the first time in one unique virtual library covering all aspects of LANCASHIRE AND ITS SURROUNDS.

Read about the antiquities of this fascinating county and its surrounds. Discover its history, its landscape and its people. Search the old local parish registers for genealogical information, revealing ancestry and family heritage. Explore the old buildings, landmarks, scenery, legends, superstitions, traditions, folklore and dialects that have helped to shape this county over thousands of years. Some of the books contained within this collection are extremely hard-to-find and will provide a valuable library of reference material. Overall, an absolute must for anyone with an interest in Lancashire and its local history, ancestry and genealogy. The full list of titles included speaks for itself….

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Full List of Books Included:


A bibliography of the dialect literature of Cumberland and Westmorland, and Lancashire North-of-the-Sands - A. Sparke (1907)

A companion to the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire by E. Baines (1834)

A description of the state, civil and ecclesiastical, of the county of Lancaster, about the year 1590 (1875)

A descriptive history of the popular watering place of Southport in the Parish of North Meols, on the western coast of Lancashire - F. Robinson (1848)

A descriptive list of the printed maps of Lancashire, 1577-1900 (1901)

A discourse of the warr in Lancashire - E. Robinson (1864)

A few interesting details about Garston and district - R. S. Jones (1919)

A fortnight's ramble to the lakes in Westmorland, Lancashire, and Cumberland - J. Palmer (1795)

A glossary of the Lancashire dialect - J. H. Nodal (1875)

A glossary of the words and phrases of Furness (North Lancashire) by J. P. Morris (1869)

A grammar of the dialect of Adlington (Lancashire) - A. Hargreaves (1904)

A grammar of the dialect of Oldham (Lancashire) - K. G. Schilling (1906)

A guide to the Lakes - dedicated to the lovers of landscape studies, and to all who have visited, or intend to visit, the lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire - T. West (1778)

A handbook of Lancashire place-names - J. Sephton (1913)

A history of Blackburn, town and parish - W. A. Abram (1877)

A history of Lancashire - H. Fishwick (1894)

A history of the ancient chapel of Blackley, in Manchester parish; including sketches of the townships of Blackley, Harpurhey, Moston, and Crumpsall - J. Booker (1854)

A history of the Lancashire Fusiliers (formerly XX Regiment) Vol. 1 - B. Smyth (1903)

A journey made in the summer of 1794 ... to which are added, observations during a tour to the lakes of Lancashire, Westmoreland, and Cumberland Vols. 1 & 2 by A. W. Radcliffe (1795)

A List of the Lancashire Wills Proved Within the Archdeaconry of Richmond Vol. 10 (1879)

A List of the Lancashire Wills Proved Within the Archdeaconry of Richmond Vol. 13 (1879)

A List of the Lancashire Wills Proved Within the Archdeaconry of Richmond Vol. 23 (1879)

A List of the Lancashire Wills Proved Within the Archdeaconry of Richmond Vol. 66 (1879)

A sixteenth-century survey and year's account of the estates of Hornby castle, Lancashire (1921)

A survey of the history, commerce and manufacture of Lancashire (1897)

A year in a Lancashire garden - H. A. Bright (1891)

An essay towards the history of Liverpool - W. Enfield (1774)

An illustrated itinerary of the county of Lancaster - C. Redding (1842)

An index to the wills and inventories now preserved in the Court of probate, at Chester (1545 - 1620) - J. P. Earwaker (1879)

Annals and stories of Colne and neighbourhood - J. Carr (1878)

Ballads & songs of Lancashire, ancient and modern - J. Harland (1875)

Bell-founders in Lancashire and Cheshire and the adjacent counties, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by J. P. Earwaker (1820)

Bygone Lancashire - E. Axon (1892)

Calendars of the names of families which entered their several pedigrees in the successive heraldic visitations of the county palatine of Lancaster - G. Ormerod (1851)

Cheshire and Lancashire funeral certificates, A.D. 1600 to 1678 (1882)

Country rambles, and Manchester walks and wild flowers being rural wanderings in Cheshire, Lancashire, Derbyshire, & Yorkshire - L. H. Grindon (1882)

County families of Lancashire and Cheshire - J. Croston (1887)

Early stages of the Quaker movement in Lancashire - B. Nightingale (1921)

East Lancashire nomenclature and Rochdale names - H. C. March (1880)

Echoes of old Lancashire - W. Axon (1899)

Final Concords of the County of Lancaster (1905)

Folk songs and folk-speech of Lancashire - W. Axon (1871)

Genealogye of the worshipful and ancient families of the Heskaythes of Ruffourd in Lancashire (1869)

Gleanings towards the annals of Aughton, near Ormskirk - G. C. Newstead (1893)

Goblin tales of Lancashire - J. Bowker (1878)

Hale Hall, with notes on the family of Ireland Blackburne (1881)

Handbook for Lancashire - J. Murray (1880)

Hawkshead (the northernmost parish of Lancashire) its history, archaeology, industries, folklore, dialect, etc. - H. S. Cowper (1899)

Historic sites of Lancashire and Cheshire - historical, legendary, genealogical and descriptive - J. Croston (1883)

History of the borough of Preston and its environs, in the county of Lancaster - C. Hardwick (1857)

History of the county palatine and duchy of Lancaster Vols. 1 & 2 - E. Baines (1836)

History of the Fylde of Lancashire - J. Porter (1876)

History of the old Independent chapel Tockholes, near Blackburn Lancashire; or, About two centuries and a half of nonconformity in Tockholes - B. Nightingale (1886)

History of the Pilkington family of Lancashire and its branches, from 1066 to 1600 - J. Pilkington (1912)

Home-life of the Lancashire Factory Folk During the Cotton Famine - E. Waugh (1867)

Horwich - Its History, Legends and Church - T. Hampson (1893)

Lancashire - biographies, Rolls of Honour (1917)

Lancashire - F. A. Bruton (1921)

Lancashire - its Puritanism and nonconformity Vol. 2 - R. Halley (1869)

Lancashire and Cheshire Church Surveys. 1649-1655 Vol. 1 (1879)

Lancashire and Cheshire historical and genealogical notes Vols. 1 – 3 - J. Rose (1879)

Lancashire and Cheshire records preserved in the Public Record Office, London Vols. 1 & 2 - W. D. Selby (1882)

Lancashire and Cheshire, past and present - T. Baines (1868)

Lancashire Characters and Places - T. Newbigging (1891)

Lancashire folk-lore - illustrative of the superstitious beliefs and practices, local customs and usages of the people of the county Palatine - J. Harland (1867)

Lancashire funeral certificates - T. W. King (1869)

Lancashire gleanings - W. Axon (1883)

Lancashire humour - T. Newbigging (1901)

Lancashire hunting songs, and other moorland lays - C. F. Smith (1909)

Lancashire illustrated, from original drawings - S. Austin (1831)

Lancashire legends - J. Roby (1911)

Lancashire legends, traditions, pageants, sports, etc. with an appendix containing a rare tract on the Lancashire witches, etc. - J. Harland (1873)

Lancashire lyrics - modern songs and ballads of the county palatine - J. Harland (1866)

Lancashire memorials of the rebellion, MDCCXV - S. Hibbert (1845)

Lancashire memories - L. Potter (1879)

Lancashire nonconformity, or, Sketches, historical & descriptive, of the Congregational and old Presbyterian churches in the county Vols. 1, 2, 4, 5 & 6 - B. Nightingale (1890)

Lancashire registers, Brindle and Samlesbury (1922)

Lancashire registers, northern part - J. P. Smith (1916)

Lancashire registers, Northern Part (1913)

Lancashire registers, The Flyde (1914)

Lancashire sketches - E. Waugh (1869)

Lancashire songs - E. Waugh (1866)

Lancashire worthies - F. Espinasse (1874)

Lancashire, its history, legends, and manufactures - G. N. Wright (1843)

Lancashire; brief historical and descriptive notes - L. H. Grindon (1892)

Landnama book of Iceland as it illustrates the dialect, place names, folk lore, & antiquities of Cumberland, Westmorland,and North Lancashire - T. Ellwood (1894)

Legends of Lancashire - P. Landreth (1841)

Marriage Licences Granted Within the Archdeaconry of Chester. Vols. 1, 3, 5, 6 & 7 (1907)

Memorials of old Lancashire Vols. 1 & 2 - H. Fishwick (1909)

Miscellanies, Relating to Lancashire and Cheshire - W. Beamont (1902)

Nooks and corners of Lancashire and Cheshire, a wayfarer's notes in the palatine counties, historical, legendary, genealogical, and descriptive - J. Croston (1882)

North country poets - poems and biographies of natives or residents of Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmoreland, Durham, Lancashire and Yorkshire - W. Andrews (1888)

North Lancashire - J. E. Marr (1912)

Notes of a Tour in the Manufacturing Districts of Lancashire - W. C. Taylor (1842)

Notes on the churches of Lancashire - S. R. Glynne (1893)

Old halls in Lancashire and Cheshire - H. Taylor (1884)

Old south-east Lancashire (1880)

On some ancient battle-fields in Lancashire and their historical, legendary, and aesthetic associations by C. Hardwick (1882)

On the south Lancashire dialect - T. Heywood (1861)

Palatine anthology - a collection of ancient poems and ballads, relating to Lancashire and Cheshire - J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)

Pedigrees of the county families of England, authenticated by the members of each family. The heraldic illus. by J. Forbes-Nixon. Vol. I - Lancashire - J. Foster (1873)

Poems, an offering to Lancashire (1863)

Poems and Lancashire songs - E. Waugh (1861)

Poems, songs & recitations in the Lancashire dialect - J. Brown (1881)

Popular traditions of Lancashire Vols. 1 - 3 - J. Roby (1843)

Pott's Discovery of witches in the county of Lancaster - T. Potts (1745)

Remains, historical & literary, connected with the palatine counties of Lancaster and Chester Vol. 81

Scarsdale; or, Life on the Lancashire and Yorkshire border, thirty years ago Vols. 1 - 3 - J. P. Kay-Shuttleworth (1860)

Seets i' Yorkshire and Lancashire - Grimes' comical trip from Leeds to Liverpool by canal - J. Hartley (1876)

Sketches of Lancashire life and localities - E. Waugh (1855)

South Lancashire in the reign of Edward II (1919)

Summer rambles in Cheshire, Derbyshire, Lancashire, and Yorkshire - L. H. Grindon (1866)

Tales and sketches of Lancashire life - B. Brierley (1884)

That lass o' Lowrie's, a Lancashire story - F. H. Burnett (1877)

The annals of Manchester - a chronological record from the earliest times to the end of 1885 - W. Axon (1886)

The apostles of Fylde Methodism - J. Taylor (1885)

The birds of Lancashire - F. S. Mitchell (1892)

The Cheshire and Lancashire historical collector Vols. 1 & 2 (1853)

The Danes in Lancashire and Yorkshire - S. W. Partington (1909)

The dialect of South Lancashire - T. Bobbin (1854)

The earliest registers of the Parish of Liverpool (St. Nicholas's Church) - christenings, marriages, and burials pt. 1. (1660-1704) (1909)

The earliest registers of the Parish of Liverpool (St. Nicholas's Church) - christenings, marriages, and burials pt. 2. (1705-1725) (1909)

The geology of the Burnley coal-field and of the country around Clitheroe, Blackburn, Preston, Chorley, Haslingden, and Todmorden - E. Hull (1875)

The geology of the country around Oldham, including Manchester and its suburbs - E. Hull (1864)

The geology of the country around Prescot, Lancashire - E. Hull (1882)

The great civil war in Lancashire, 1642-1651 - E. Broxap (1910)

The history of Brunswick Church, Bury - T. P. Dale (1896)

The history of Everton - including familiar dissertations on the people, and descriptive delineations of the several & separate properties of the township - R. Syers (1830)

The history of Preston, in Lancashire (1882)

The history of the Lancashire family of Pilkington and its branches from 1066 to 1600 - J. Pilkington (1894)

The history of the parish of Preston in Amounderness in the county of Lancaster - H. Fishwick (1900)

The Jacobite trials at Manchester in 1694 - From an unpublished manuscript (1853)

The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway - T. Normington (1898)

The Lancashire cotton industry; a study in economic development - S. J. Chapman (1904)

The Lancashire Hollands - B. H. Holland (1917)

The Lancashire library; a bibliographical account of books on topography, biography, history, science, and miscellaneous literature relating to the county palatine - H. Fishwick (1875)

The Lancashire lieutenancy under the Tudors and Stuarts. The civil and military government of the county, as illustrated by a series of royal and other letters - J. Harland (1859)

The Lancashire Pipe rolls of 31 Henry I., A.D. 1130, and of the reigns of Henry II, A.D. 1155-1189; and King John, A.D. 1199-1216, also early Lancashire charters of the period (1902)

The makers of Wesleyan Methodism in Preston and the relation of Methodism to the Temperance & Tee-total Movements - W. Pilkington (1890)

The monumental brasses of Lancashire and Cheshire - J. L. Thornely (1893)

The new Lancashire gazetteer; containing an accurate description of the several hundreds, boroughs, market towns, parishes, townships, and hamlets, in the county palatine of Lancaster - S. R. Clarke (1830)

The nonconformist register, of baptisms, marriages, and deaths 1644-1702, 1702-1752, ... comprehending numerous notices of Puritans and Anti-Puritans in Yorkshire, Lancashire, etc - O. Heywood (1881)

The oldest register book the parish of Hawkshead in Lancashire. 1568-1704 - H. S. Cooper (1897)

The palaeontology of the Lancashire coal measures Vols. 1 & 2 - H. Bolton (1904)

The parliamentary representation of Lancashire, (county and borough), 1258-1885, with biographical and genealogical notices of the members, etc. - W. D. Pink (1889)

The parliamentary representation of the six northern counties of England. Cumberland, Durham, Lancashire, Northumberland, Westmoreland, and Yorkshire, and their cities and boroughs - W. Bean (1890)

The place names of Lancashire, their origin and history - H. Wyld (1911)

The place-names of Lancashire - E. Ekwall (1922)

The place-names of the Liverpool district; or, The history and meaning of the local and river names of South-west Lancashire and of Wirral - H. Harrison (1898)

The races of Lancashire, as indicated by the local names and the dialect of the county - J. Davies (1856)

The registers of Hornby, Lancashire 1742-1789 (1922)

The registers of Saint Helens Chapel in the parish of Prescot pt. 1 (1713-1787) (1900)

The registers of Saint Helens Chapel in the parish of Prescot pt. 2 (1788-1812) (1900)

The registers of the church of St. Lawrence, Denton in the County of Lancaster, 1695-1757 (1913)

The registers of the parish church of Bolton-le-Sands in the County Of Lancaster, 1665-1736 (1911)

The registers of the parish church of Burnley in the County of Lancaster. Christenings, weddings, and burials 1562 to 1653 (1899)

The registers of the parish church of Bury in the County of Lancasrter. Christenings, burials, & weddings Vol. 2 (1617-1746) (1901)

The registers of the parish church of Chorley in the county of Lancaster 1548-1653 (1910)

The registers of the parish church of Deane (1916)

The registers of the parish church of Eccles in the County of Lancaster. Baptisms, burials, and marriages 1564-1632 (1906)

The registers of the parish church of Eccleston, in the County of Lancaster christenings, burials, and weddings, 1603-1694 (1903)

The registers of the parish church of Gorton. 1599-1741 (1913)

The registers of the parish church of Over Kellet in the County of Lancaster, 1648-1812 (1911)

The registers of the parish church of Padiham in the County of Lancaster. Christenings, burials, and weddings, 1573 to 1653 (1903)

The registers of the parish church of Prestwich ; baptisms, burials and weddings, 1603-1688 (1909)

The registers of the parish church of Rochdale, (1642-1700) Pt. 1 (1921)

The registers of the parish church of Rochdale, (1642-1700) Pt. 2 (1921)

The registers of the parish church of Urswick in Furness, Lancashire. Christenings, weddings, and burials, 1608-1695 (1907)

The registers of the parish church of Whittington in the County of Lancaster. Christenings, burials, and weddings, 1538 to 1764 (1899)

The registers of the parish of Croston in the County of Lancaster (1900)

The registers of the parish of Middleton in the County of Lancaster. Christenings, Burials, and weddings (1902)

The registers of the parish of Pilling, in the County of Lancaster (1910)

The registers of the parish of Walton=le=Dale in the Country of Lancaster baptisms, burials and marriages 1609-1812 - G. Clayton (1910)

The registers of Woodplumpton in the county of Lancaster - baptisms, burials, and marriages Pt. 2 (1659-1784) (1906)

The Song of Solomon in the Lancashire dialect, as spoken at Bolton - J. T. Staton (1859)

The story of the Lancashire Congregational Union, 1806-1906 - B. Nightingale (1906)

The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster Vols. 1 – 7 (1906-1912)

The visitation of Lancashire and a part of Cheshire, made in the twenty-fourth year of the reign of King Henry the Eighth, 1533 A.D. Vols. 1 & 2 (1876)

The visitation of the county palatine of Lancaster, made in the year 1613 - R. Saint-George (1871)

The war history of the 1st 4th Battalion, the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, now the Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire), 1914-1918 (1921)

The worthies of Yorkshire and Lancashire; being lives of the most distinguished persons that have been born in, or connected with, those provinces - H. Coleridge (1832)

Three Lancashire documents of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries (published 1868)

Tim Bobbin's Lancashire dialect and poems - T. Bobbin (1828)

Tracts relating to military proceedings in Lancashire during the great civil war - G. Ormerod (1844)

Traditions of Lancashire Vols. 1 & 2 - J. Roby (1872)

Traditions, superstitions, and folklore, (chiefly Lancashire and the north of England) their affinity to others in widely-distributed localities - C. Hardwick (1872)

Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire for the year 1914 (1914)

Walks in South Lancashire and on its borders - S. Bamford (1844)

Yorkshire place names, as recorded in the Yorkshire Domenday book, 1086 - comprising all the references (nearly five thousand,) to places in the three ridings and North Lancashire - J. H. Turner (1901)



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