Salesbury, Lancashire Family History Guide

Salesbury is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Lancashire, created in 1809 from a chapelry in Blackburn St Mary Ancient Parish.

Alternative names:

Parish church: St. Peter

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1809
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1808

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

SALESBURY, a chapelry, in the parish, union, and Lower division of the hundred, of Blackburn, N. division of the county of Lancaster, 4½ miles (N.) from Blackburn; containing 399 inhabitants.

In the reign of Edward II. a charter for free warren in this manor was granted to Sir Robert de Cliderhou, whose daughter occurs as owner of the manor in 1406. Isabella, her daughter, conveyed the manor in marriage to John Talbot, of Bashall. Their son was instrumental to the betrayal of Henry VI., whose apprehension is said to have occurred here, though Leland fixes the scene in Cletherwoode. However this may be, letters-patent were granted to him by Edward IV. for a pension of twenty marks out of the duchy revenues.

In this odious service, Sir James Haryngton was the principal actor, and the Talbots his subordinate agents. John Talbot, the last male heir of the family, left a daughter, married to Edward Warren of Poynton, from whose family the manor passed by marriage: it now belongs to Lord de Tabley. The Hall of Salesbury is at present a ruin.

The township, which lies in the valley of the Ribble, is interspersed with woods and copses: the road from Preston to Clitheroe passes through.

The living is a perpetual curacy, in the patronage of the Vicar of Blackburn; net income, £120 per annum. The chapel, dedicated to St. Peter, was repaired in 1844.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Lancashire, Salesbury – Cemeteries ( 3 )
Monumental inscriptions, Salesbury nr. Blackburn, Lancashire, England, ca. 1801-1900
Author: Salesbury Cemetery (Salesbury, Lancashire)

Monumental inscriptions, Salesbury, Lancashire, England, 1807-1950

St. Peter’s parish church, Salesbury, Graveyard survey with memorial inscriptions
Author: Harwood, Michael; Harwood, Susan; Church of England. Chapelry of Salesbury (Lancashire)

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

England, Lancashire, Salesbury – Church records ( 6 )
Bishop’s transcripts of Mellor, Salesbury, Samlesbury and Tockholes, 1623-1876
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Mellor (Lancashire); Church of England. Chapelry of Salesbury (Lancashire); Church of England. Chapelry of Samlesbury

Bishop’s transcripts of St. Mary’s Church (Blackburn, Lancashire), 1606-1854
Author: Church of England. St. Mary’s Church (Blackburn, Lancashire); Church of England. Chapelry of Tockholes (Lancashire); Church of England. Chapelry of St. James (Over Darwen, Lancashire); Church of England. Chapelry of Salesbury (Lancashire); Church of England. St. John’s Church (Blackburn, Lancashire)

Coucher books, 1680-1896
Author: Church of England. St. Mary-the-Virgin Church (Blackburn, Lancashire)

Parish register transcripts, 1807-1812, Chapelry of Salesbury
Author: Gardner, David Ensign, 1915-2007

Parish registers of the chapelry of Salesbury, 1807-1900
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Salesbury (Lancashire)

Some registers of South Ribble : the registers of St Leonard, Balderstone (bap, bur 1751-1841), St Peter, Salesbury (bap, bur 1807-1839), St Mary, Mellor (bap, bur 1829-1841), St Saviour, Mellor Brook (bap 1837-1841)
Author: Lancashire Parish Register Society

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

Administration

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