THORNBER BAPTISM RECORDS IN LANCASHIRE
ENGLAND TO 1850, PRESENTED BY PARISH

Part 2. Parishes M to W

Not yet included are Burnley St Andrew, Clitheroe & Padiham.  The information is drawn from volumes of the Lancashire Parish Register Society transcripts, inspection of registers and microfilms at Lancashire County Record Office and the International Genealogical Index (IGI)

BE WARNED .   This listing is not complete because many of the parish register transcripts go only to 1812.  The IGI sometimes indexes up to 1837, when general registration began, but in cases where it goes beyond 1837 I have included entries up to 1850.  The IGI is on average only 50% complete for England.  Even for registers that have been indexed, the IGI does not necessarily cover all time periods for which the registers exist.  In some cases the IGI is based on the bishops' transcripts not on the original register and these often have missing years.  This table is intended to be only a signpost to further research.

The first thing to do for any record of interest is to check it yourself in the full register to see if there are further details such as the father's occupation and abode. 
The second thing to do is to consult the burial registers to see if the child died in infancy.  In some districts up to one third of children died before the age of 20 in the period covered.

The information here is presented by place of worship then by date. This allows one to pick up families more readily than by looking at a table in date order or alphabetical order of Christian name. You can also use the "Find in this page" function in your browser to home in on a particular name.

Important note on Dates

In England the official date for the change from the Julian Calendar to the Gregorian Calendar was 1 January 1752. Before then the year began on 25 March, which is Lady Day. Hence the months January and February and the days from 1 to 24 March were at the END of the year. I prefer to quote the dates as they were at the time. However, some researchers try to change the dates to what they would be on the Gregorian Calendar even though they were recorded before 1752. Other hedge their bets by giving dates such as 20 Jan 1749/50 indicating that it was actually 1749 but the by 25 March it would become 1750. As a result, some dates between 1 January and 24 March before 1752 that are quoted below may actually be in error by one year.

Link to Thornber Baptism Records in Lancashire, Parishes A to L
Link to Thornber Marriage Records in Lancashire
Link to Thornber Burial Records in Lancashire

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