Lancashire Local and Family History

General History

Baines, Edward. History of the county palatine and duchy of Lancaster. Revised edition (James Craston editor). London: John Heywood, 1888. Call #: F54945.1. [No. of vols.?] (Call # for original 1836 edition: F45945.09).

Corry, John. The History of Lancashire. London: G.B. Whittaker, 1825. [No. of vols.?] Call #: F45945.19.

The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster. London: [A. Constable and Co.], 1906-. 8 volumes. Call #: F45945.9.

Visitations, Heraldry, Titled Families

Benolt, Thomas. The Visitation of Lancashire and a part of Cheshire, made in the twenty-fourth year of the reign of Henry the Eighth, A.D. 1533 . . . . Edited by William Langton. [Manchester]: printed for the Chetham Society, 1876-1882. 2 volumes. Call #: F0745.09.

Croston, James. County families of Lancashire and Cheshire. London: J. Heywood, 1887. Call #: E44548.201.

Dugdale, William. The Visitation of the county palatine of Lancaster made in the year 1664-5. Edited by F.R. Raines. [Manchester]: Chetham Society, 1872-1873. 3 volumes. Call #: F0745.245.

Flower, William. The Visitation of the county palatine of Lancaster, made in the year 1567 . . . . Edited by F.R. Raines. [Manchester]: printed for the Chetham Society, 1870. Call #: F0745.3.

Foster, Joseph. Pedigrees of the county families of England. Volume 1 - Lancashire. London: compiler, 1873. Call #: E69477.31. Apparently the only volume published from this series.

Horrocks, Sidney. Lancashire family histories, pedigrees, heraldry. (A Contribution towards a Lancashire bibliography, 4.) Manchester: Joint COmmittee on the Lancashire Bibliography, 1972. Call #: oZ5313.G7.L354.

Saint-George, Richard. The Visitation of the county palatine of Lancaster, made in the year 1613 . . . . [Manchester]: printed for the Chetham Society, 1871. Call #: F0745.77.

Series Containing Source Material

The researcher of Lancashire local and family history will benefit from several historical/antiquarian series of long standing. A few of the more important volumes published as parts of these series are noted; however, it is outside the scope of this bibliography to provide analytical listings for all volumes with the exception of the publications of the Parish Register Society. Even so, researchers should be assured that the Newberry catalogs will in most instances afford subject access to most individual volumes within the various series. The following listings are to a great extent supplied for the benefit of researchers working from citation.

Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire. Proceedings and Papers / Transactions. Vol. 1 (1848) -. Note title change. Also "New Series" volume numbering begins 1885. Index to Transactions now available on-line on the Web site of the Historic Society.

Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society. Transactions. Vol. 1 (1883)-. Ca;; #: F024548.5.

Record Society for the Publication of Original Doucments Relating to Lancashire and Cheshire. [Publications.] Vol. 1 (1879) -. Call #: F45945.7.

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