Church Kirk is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Lancashire, created in 1723 from Whalley Ancient Parish.
Other places in the parish include: Oswaldtwistle and Huncoat.
Alternative names: Church, Churchkirk, Churchtown
Parish church: St James
Parish registers begin:
Church Kirk
- Parish registers: 1633
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1600
Oswaldtwistle
- Parish registers: 1837
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1848
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist
Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
CHURCH, a township, in the parish of Whalley, union, and Lower division of the hundred, of Blackburn, N. division of the county of Lancaster, 4¾ miles (E.) from Blackburn; containing 1545 persons.
This township, and the townships of Huncoat and Oswaldtwistle, form the parochial chapelry of ChurchKirk, comprising 8667 inhabitants. The district is subject to the honor of Clitheroe, and yields suit and service to the court of Accrington.
The printing of calicoes, and power-loom and hand-loom weaving, are the principal manufactures.
The Leeds and Liverpool canal, which extends along the northern margin of Church and Oswaldtwistle, opens a communication to the eastern and western seas.
The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £218; patrons, the Trustees of William Hulme: the chapel is dedicated to St. James, and is a plain structure with an antique castellated tower; the body was rebuilt in 1804. Emmanuel church was built at Oswaldtwistle in 1837; the patronage is vested in five Trustees.
There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.
At Church, Oswaldtwistle, Cabin-End, and Daisy-Green, are national schools; and at Fox-Hill Bank is an infants’ school.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Parish Records
FamilySearch
England, Lancashire, Church – Business records and commerce ( 1 )
Accrington and Church Industrial Co-operative Society Limited : history of fifty years progress, a souvenir in commemeration of the Society’s jubilee, 1869-1910
Author: Haslam, James
England, Lancashire, Church – Cemeteries ( 2 )
Church Kirk, Saint James [monumental inscriptions]
Author: Hull, Roland; Lancashire Family History and Heraldry Society. Ribble Valley Branch; Church of England. Chapelry of Church (Lancashire)
Monumental inscriptions, Church, Lancashire, England
Author: Bibby, James
England, Lancashire, Church – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Church, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office
England, Lancashire, Church – Church records ( 9 )
Bishop’s transcripts of the chapelry of Church, 1600-1877.
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Church (Lancashire); Church of England. Christ Church (Chatburn, Lancashire)
Church records, 1633-1747
Author: Wesleyan Church (Church, Lancashire)
England, Lancashire, Church Kirk, St. James’ parish registers, 1633-1830
Author: Church of England. St. James’ (Church, Lancashire); Lancashire Records Office (Preston, England)
Higham Wesleyan Extracts of baptisms, burials and marriages, Lancashire, 1560-1820
Author: Norman, Bertram William Tuff, 1880-1959; Wesleyan Chapel (Higham, Lancashire); Church of England. Chapelry of Church (Lancashire); Church of England. Chapelry of Altham (Lancashire); Church of England. Chapelry of Great Harwood (Lancashire)
Parish registers for Church, 1633-1948
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Church (Lancashire); Lancashire Record Office
The register of Church Kirk, 1600-1747
Author: Dickinson, Robert; Church of England. Chapelry of Church (Lancashire)
The registers of St James, Church Kirk, 1747-1812
Author: Broderick, Jack, -2008; Broderick, Kathleen, 1923-; Roberts, Jackie
Some burials of Lancashire, England : Chapel Street, Blackburn (1785-1878), Church or Church Kirk, St. Bartholomews church at Great Harwood (mostly nineteenth century) and Whalley parish church (after 1836)
Author: Bibby, James
Wesleyan Chapel records, christenings, April 1827-Dec. 1839 and burials, Sept. 1820-1864, and extracts from Gisburn (Yorks) Church Kirk, Machpelah Baptist Burial Ground, Accrington, Lancs, Altham, Lancs, and Great Harwood, Lancs
Author: Wesleyan Church (Higham-Booth-with-West-Close-Booth, England); Norman, Bertram William Tuff, 1880-1959
England, Lancashire, Church – Church records – Indexes ( 5 )
Church Kirk [marriage index]
Author: Rossendale Society for Genealogy and Heraldry (Lancashire); Grayson, Jennifer Creighton; Church of England. Chapelry of Church (Lancashire)
Computer printout of Church Kirk, Lancs., Eng
Computer printout of Church Kirk, Wesleyan, Lancs., Eng
Parish register printouts of Church Kirk, Lancashire, England, (Wesleyan Church), marriages, 1635-1747
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department
Parish register printouts of Church, Lancashire, England (Wesleyan Methodist Church) ; christenings, 1633-1746
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department
Administration
- County: Lancashire
- Civil Registration District: Blackburn
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Chester (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Manchester
- Rural Deanery: Whalley
- Poor Law Union: Blackburn
- Hundred: Blackburn
- Province: York
