Blackrod, Lancashire Family History Guide

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Blackrod (St Katherine) is an Ecclesiastical Parish, created in 1730 from a chapelry in Bolton le Moors St Peter parish, in the county of Lancashire.

Status: Ecclesiastical Parish

Parish church: St Katherine

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1606
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1606

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BLACKROD, a village and a township-chapelry in Bolton-le-Moors parish, Lancashire.

The village stands on elevated ground near the river Douglas and the Bolton and Preston railway, 4½ miles SSE of Chorley: and it has a joint station with Horwich on the railway, and a post office of its own under Chorley. Its site is supposed to have been occupied by the Roman station Coccium, on Watling-street; and many Roman relics have been found.

The chapelry comprises 2,367 acres. Real property, £14,264; of which £7,711 are in mines. Pop., 2,911. Houses, 546. The property is not much divided. The inhabitants are chiefly cotton-spinners and colliers. A fire in a colliery here was extinguished by drawing into it the river Douglas.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £400. Patron, the Vicar of Bolton. The church is good; and there is a Wesleyan chapel.

A free grammar school has £140 a year, besides sums for three exhibitions at Pembroke college, Cambridge; and other charities have £104.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Registers

Blackrod 1606-1701 – UK Genealogy Archives – Free

Baptisms – Lancashire OnLine Parish Clerks – Free

Marriages – Lancashire OnLine Parish Clerks – Free

Burials – Lancashire OnLine Parish Clerks – Free

Census

1841 Census – Lancashire OnLine Parish Clerks – Free

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Lancashire, Blackrod – Cemeteries ( 2 )
Monumental inscriptions, St. Catherine Church, Blackrod, Lancashire, England

Register of burials in the burial ground of Blackrod, 1887-1998
Author: Blackrod (Lancashire). Burial Board

England, Lancashire, Blackrod – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Blackrod, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Lancashire, Blackrod – Church records ( 6 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Blackrod, 1606-1863
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Blackrod (Lancashire)

Bishop’s transcripts for Bolton-le-Moors, 1573-1872
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Bolton-le-Moors (Lancashire)

Parish register transcripts, 1701-1853
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Blackrod (Lancashire)

Parish registers for St. Katherine’s Church, Blackrod, 1701-1860
Author: Church of England. St. Katherine’s Church (Blackrod)

The registers of St. Katherine’s, Blackrod, 1701-1837
Author: Taylor, Ken T.; Church of England. St. Katherine’s Church (Blackrod)

The registers of the parish church of Blackrod in the county of Lancaster : baptisms, burials, and marriages, 1606-1701
Author: Winder, Thomas H.; Church of England. Chapelry of Blackrod (Lancashire)

England, Lancashire, Blackrod – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Computer printout of Blackrod, St. Katherins, Lancs., Eng

England, Lancashire, Blackrod – Schools ( 2 )
Admission registers, 1914-1961
Author: Blackrod Wesleyan School

Admission registers, 1915-1947
Author: Blackrod parish Church of England school

Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

Administration

  • County: Lancashire
  • Civil Registration District: Wigan
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Chester (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Manchester
  • Rural Deanery: Bolton le Moors
  • Poor Law Union: Wigan
  • Hundred: Salford
  • Province: York