Melling, Lancashire Genealogy

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Lancashire

Lancashire Parishes

Melling

Guide to Melling, Lancashire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

See A List of Chapelries in Melling Parish

Melling, Lancashire
Type	England Jurisdictions
Civil Jurisdictions
Hundred	Lonsdale
County	Lancashire, England Genealogy
Poor Law Union	Lancaster
Registration District	Lancaster
Records begin
Parish registers: 1625
Bishop's Transcripts: 1677
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery	Tunstall
Diocese	Manchester
Legal Jurisdictions
Probate Court	Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Commissary of the Archdeaconry of Richmond Western Deaneries - Lonsdale
Location of Archive
Lancashire Archives

Parish History

Melling St Wilfrid (formerly St Peter) near Hornby is an Ancient Parish in the county of Lancashire.

Other places in the parish include: Botton, Melling with Wrayton, Wrayton, Wennington, and Roeburndale.
It should not be confused with Melling (near Liverpool), Lancashire Genealogy in the same county.

The Diocese of Blackburn is a Church of England diocese, covering much of Lancashire, created in 1926 from part of the Diocese of Manchester. The Diocese includes the towns of Blackburn, Blackpool, Burnley, and the cities of Lancaster, and Preston, as well as a large part of the Ribble Valley.
Here is an 1848 historical perspective by the topographer Samuel A.  Lewis on this parish:

"MELLING (St. Peter), a parish, in the hundred of Lonsdale south of the Sands, N. division of the county of Lancaster; containing, with the two chapelries of Arkholme with Cawood, and Hornby, and the townships of Farleton, Roeburndale, Wennington, and Wray with Botton, and the township of Melling with Wrayton, 11 miles north and east from Lancaster. At Arkholme, Hornby, and Wray, are separate chapels.

Resources

Civil Registration

Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

Online index of Lancashire Births, Marriages and Deaths Lancashire BMD

Church records

Online Records

• 1538 - 1910 England, Lancashire, Parish Registers 1538-1910 at FamilySearch — index
• 1603 - 1910 England, Lancashire, Cheshire, Yorkshire, Parish Registers, 1603-1910 at FamilySearch — index and images

Melling parish registers and those registers of all of its smaller chapelries lying within its boundaries have been mostly transcribed and are displayed online at the web sites below and for the following ranges of years:

AC = Ancestry.co.uk (£)

FMP = findmypast (£)

FREG = FreeReg

FS = FamilySearch.org

JOIN = Joiner's Marriage Index (£)

LBMD = LancashireBMD.org.uk

LOPC = Lancashire Online Parish Clerk

MELLING ST WILFRID PARISH (1622) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	1720-1902	1752-1935	1836-1861
LOPC	None	1754-1920	1786-1812
FMP	None	1636-1837 - part.	None
LBMD	None	1837-1982	None
JOIN	None	1813-1837	None
AC	1625-1752	1625-1752	1625-1752
ARKHOLME with CAWOOD ST JOHN THE BAPTIST Chapelry (1676) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	1828-1864	None	None
LOPC	None	None	None
AC	1742-1789	1742-1789	1742-1789
LBMD	None	1864-2005	1837-1922
HORNBY ST MARGARET Chapelry (1742) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	1742-1789	None	None
LOPC	1742-1900	1743-1748	1763-1789
LBMD	None	1859-1998	None
FREG	1742-1790	1743; 1748	1763-1789
WRAY Chapelry  (1690) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	1692-1822	[http;//familysearch.org 1690-1801]	1695-1815
LOPC	None	None	None
LBMD	1837-1937	None	1837-1937

Non Conformist Records

• 1647-1996 England, Lancashire Non-conformist Church Records, 1647-1996 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)

Census records

Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.

Probate records

Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Lancashire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Taxation

• 1665-1667 - Lancashire Hearth Tax: Lonsdale Hundred, Melling. E 179/132/352, The National Archives. Microfilm: FHL Film 2228692. Includes Arkholme, Bottin, Farleton, Hornby, Melling with Wrayton, Roeburndale, Wray.

Maps and Gazetteers

Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.

• England Jurisdictions 1851
• Vision of Britain