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How to search BMD records – Birth, Marriages and Deaths.  
www.lan-opc.org.uk  
Use the link above:  
Now click on “Parishes in Lancashire”  
Click on “E” for Edenfield and Parish Church.  
Bapꢁsms from 1731 to 1877.  
Burials from 1774 to 1800.  
A year or surname index.  
A year or surname index.  
Click on “H” for Hawkshaw and Hawkshaw United Methodist Free Church.  
Bapꢁsms from 1866 to 1931. A year or surname index.  
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Click on “H” for Hawkshaw and St. Marys Church a sister church to Emmanuel Church, Holcombe.  
Bapꢁsms from 1877 to 2016.  
Marriages from 1892 to 2016.  
Burials from 1893 to 2015.  
Graves.  
A year or surname index.  
A year or surname index.  
A year or surname index.  
A Book or surname Index.  
Click on “H” for Holcombe and Emmanuel Church.  
Bapꢁsms from 1726 to 2016.  
Marriages from 1837 to 2016.  
Burials from 1730 to 2013.  
Graves.  
A year or surname index.  
A year or surname index.  
A year or surname index.  
A surname Index.  
Now click on “R” for Ramsbottom and St. Paul’s Church  
Bapꢁsms from 1850 to 1854.  
Burials from 1851 to 1854.  
A year or surname index.  
A year or surname index.  
Click on “S” for Summerseat and Rowlands Church.  
Bapꢁsms from 1831 to 1837.  
Burials from 1831 to 1837.  
A year or surname index.  
A year or surname index.  
Click on “W” for Walmersley and Christ Church.  
Bapꢁsms from 1838 to 1841.  
Burials from 1838 to 1841.  
A year or surname index.  
A year or surname index.  
Click on “W” for Walmersley and Park Chapel.  
Bapꢁsms from 1803 to 1837.  
A year or surname index.  
This is a vast resource of informaꢁon for Family History.  
Lancashire BMD  
www.lancashirebmd.org.uk  
Click on ‘Births’.  
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Region: click on ‘Bury’ for Ramsbottom, Summerseat, Holcombe. Leave as All Regions for Edenfield.  
Enter: Surname e.g. ‘Lomax’  
Match: Someꢁmes they have been entered incorrectly e.g. Howarth or Haworth. So ‘Near’ or ‘Vague’ can  
be helpful.  
Shade in your year range.  
Click on ‘Display’  
You now have the Mother’s Maiden Name: e.g. ‘Greenhalgh’. Born in Holcombe.  
Go back and enter that, delete the first name and you will pick up all the siblings.  
‘Marriages’ and ‘Deaths’ work in the same way.  
You can order the cerꢁficates as well at a price.  
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FreeBMD Home Page  
Free access to Births, Marriages and Seath records.  
Search Births, Marriages and Deaths  
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FreeCEN - Census Research  
The link at the top “Original Version of FreeCEN”  
Allows you to search for streets.  
In “Civil Parish” for Ramsbottom and Holcombe type “Toꢂngton Lower End”, for Summerseat type “Elton”  
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FreeREG – Parish Records  
War Deaths  
Commonwealth War Graves Commission  
www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/  
Just fill in ‘Surname’, ‘World War’ and ‘Served with’, if this gives you too many results try ‘Served in’.  
First name can be recorded just as an iniꢁal, so try both.  
A Street Near You  
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Use the search box to go to the area you are interested in.  
Lives of the First World War  
hꢀps://livesoꢃhefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk  
Find a Grave  
hꢀps://www.findagrave.com  
Enter a place and/or a name.  
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