LANCASHIRE:
HISTORY, ANCESTRY
& GENEALOGY
Rare Book Collection
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A truly unique and wonderful
collection of over 200 rare, out-of-print books compiled together for the first
time on one USB flash drive covering all aspects of LANCASHIRE
AND ITS SURROUNDS.
Read about the antiquities
of this fascinating county and its surrounds. Discover its history, its
landscape and its people. Search the old local parish registers for
genealogical information, revealing ancestry and family heritage. Explore the
old buildings, landmarks, scenery, legends, superstitions, traditions, folklore
and dialects that have helped to shape this county over thousands of years.
Some of the books contained within this collection are extremely hard-to-find
and will provide a valuable library of reference material. Overall, an absolute
must for anyone with an interest in Lancashire
and its local history, ancestry and genealogy. The full list of titles included
speaks for itself….
This superb compilation of 217
vintage books provides literally 1,000’s of pages of great
content and fabulous photos / illustrations for the reader. All of the books
have been scanned in high quality and preserved forever in pdf format - easy to
read on your laptop or computer, or transfer to tablet, smartphone, kindle or
e-reader. You can also print entire books or select pages.
This is without doubt the
most extensive collection of its kind - compiled over time by
rare-book-collections, and only available here!
The Full List of Titles
Included is as Follows:
A
bibliography of the dialect literature of Cumberland
and Westmorland, and Lancashire
North-of-the-Sands - A. Sparke (1907)
A companion
to the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire by E. Baines (1834)
A description
of the state, civil and ecclesiastical, of the county of Lancaster,
about the year 1590 (1875)
A descriptive
history of the popular watering place of Southport in the Parish of North
Meols, on the western coast of Lancashire - F.
Robinson (1848)
A descriptive
list of the printed maps of Lancashire,
1577-1900 (1901)
A discourse
of the warr in Lancashire - E. Robinson (1864)
A few
interesting details about Garston and district - R. S. Jones (1919)
A fortnight's
ramble to the lakes in Westmorland, Lancashire, and Cumberland - J. Palmer (1795)
A glossary of
the Lancashire dialect - J. H. Nodal (1875)
A glossary of
the words and phrases of Furness (North Lancashire)
by J. P. Morris (1869)
A grammar of
the dialect of Adlington (Lancashire) - A.
Hargreaves (1904)
A grammar of
the dialect of Oldham (Lancashire) - K. G.
Schilling (1906)
A guide to
the Lakes - dedicated to the lovers of landscape studies, and to all who have
visited, or intend to visit, the lakes in Cumberland,
Westmorland, and Lancashire - T. West (1778)
A handbook of
Lancashire place-names - J. Sephton (1913)
A history of Blackburn, town and parish - W. A. Abram (1877)
A history of Lancashire - H. Fishwick (1894)
A history of
the ancient chapel of Blackley, in Manchester
parish; including sketches of the townships of Blackley, Harpurhey, Moston, and
Crumpsall - J. Booker (1854)
A history of
the Lancashire Fusiliers (formerly XX Regiment) Vol. 1 - B. Smyth
(1903)
A journey
made in the summer of 1794 ... to which are added, observations during a tour
to the lakes of Lancashire, Westmoreland, and Cumberland Vols. 1 & 2 by A.
W. Radcliffe (1795)
A List of the
Lancashire Wills Proved Within the Archdeaconry of Richmond Vol. 10 (1879)
A List of the
Lancashire Wills Proved Within the Archdeaconry of Richmond Vol. 13 (1879)
A List of the
Lancashire Wills Proved Within the Archdeaconry of Richmond Vol. 23 (1879)
A List of the
Lancashire Wills Proved Within the Archdeaconry of Richmond Vol. 66 (1879)
A
sixteenth-century survey and year's account of the estates of Hornby castle, Lancashire (1921)
A survey of
the history, commerce and manufacture of Lancashire
(1897)
A year in a Lancashire garden - H. A. Bright (1891)
An essay
towards the history of Liverpool - W. Enfield
(1774)
An
illustrated itinerary of the county
of Lancaster - C. Redding
(1842)
An index to
the wills and inventories now preserved in the Court of probate, at Chester (1545 - 1620) - J.
P. Earwaker (1879)
Annals and
stories of Colne and neighbourhood - J. Carr (1878)
Ballads &
songs of Lancashire, ancient and modern - J.
Harland (1875)
Bell-founders
in Lancashire and Cheshire
and the adjacent counties, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by J. P.
Earwaker (1820)
Bygone Lancashire - E. Axon (1892)
Calendars of
the names of families which entered their several pedigrees in the successive
heraldic visitations of the county palatine of Lancaster - G. Ormerod (1851)
Cheshire and
Lancashire funeral certificates, A.D. 1600 to 1678 (1882)
Country
rambles, and Manchester walks and wild flowers being rural wanderings in
Cheshire, Lancashire, Derbyshire, & Yorkshire - L. H. Grindon (1882)
County
families of Lancashire and Cheshire
- J. Croston (1887)
Early stages
of the Quaker movement in Lancashire - B.
Nightingale (1921)
East
Lancashire nomenclature and Rochdale names -
H. C. March (1880)
Echoes of old
Lancashire - W. Axon (1899)
Final
Concords of the County
of Lancaster (1905)
Folk songs
and folk-speech of Lancashire - W. Axon (1871)
Genealogye of
the worshipful and ancient families of the Heskaythes of Ruffourd in Lancashire (1869)
Gleanings
towards the annals of Aughton, near Ormskirk - G. C. Newstead (1893)
Goblin tales
of Lancashire - J. Bowker (1878)
Hale Hall,
with notes on the family of Ireland
Blackburne (1881)
Handbook for Lancashire - J. Murray (1880)
Hawkshead
(the northernmost parish of Lancashire) its
history, archaeology, industries, folklore, dialect, etc. - H. S. Cowper (1899)
Historic
sites of Lancashire and Cheshire
- historical, legendary, genealogical and descriptive - J. Croston (1883)
History of
the borough of Preston and its environs, in the county of Lancaster
- C. Hardwick (1857)
History of
the county palatine and duchy of Lancaster Vols.
1 & 2 - E. Baines (1836)
History of
the Fylde of Lancashire - J. Porter (1876)
History of
the old Independent chapel Tockholes, near Blackburn Lancashire; or, About two
centuries and a half of nonconformity in Tockholes - B. Nightingale (1886)
History of
the Pilkington family of Lancashire and its
branches, from 1066 to 1600 - J. Pilkington (1912)
Home-life of
the Lancashire Factory Folk During the Cotton
Famine - E. Waugh (1867)
Horwich - Its
History, Legends and Church - T. Hampson (1893)
Lancashire -
biographies, Rolls of Honour (1917)
Lancashire - F. A.
Bruton (1921)
Lancashire - its
Puritanism and nonconformity Vol. 2 - R. Halley (1869)
Lancashire
and Cheshire Church Surveys. 1649-1655 Vol. 1 (1879)
Lancashire
and Cheshire
historical and genealogical notes Vols. 1 – 3 - J. Rose (1879)
Lancashire
and Cheshire records preserved in the Public Record Office, London Vols. 1 & 2 - W. D. Selby (1882)
Lancashire
and Cheshire, past and present - T. Baines (1868)
Lancashire Characters
and Places - T. Newbigging (1891)
Lancashire folk-lore -
illustrative of the superstitious beliefs and practices, local customs and
usages of the people of the county Palatine - J. Harland (1867)
Lancashire funeral
certificates - T. W. King (1869)
Lancashire gleanings -
W. Axon (1883)
Lancashire humour - T.
Newbigging (1901)
Lancashire
hunting songs, and other moorland lays - C. F. Smith (1909)
Lancashire
illustrated, from original drawings - S. Austin
(1831)
Lancashire legends - J.
Roby (1911)
Lancashire
legends, traditions, pageants, sports, etc. with an appendix containing a rare
tract on the Lancashire witches, etc. - J. Harland (1873)
Lancashire lyrics -
modern songs and ballads of the county palatine - J. Harland (1866)
Lancashire
memorials of the rebellion, MDCCXV - S. Hibbert (1845)
Lancashire memories -
L. Potter (1879)
Lancashire
nonconformity, or, Sketches, historical & descriptive, of the
Congregational and old Presbyterian churches in the county Vols. 1, 2, 4, 5
& 6 - B. Nightingale (1890)
Lancashire registers,
Brindle and Samlesbury (1922)
Lancashire registers,
northern part - J. P. Smith (1916)
Lancashire registers,
Northern Part (1913)
Lancashire registers,
The Flyde (1914)
Lancashire sketches -
E. Waugh (1869)
Lancashire songs - E.
Waugh (1866)
Lancashire worthies -
F. Espinasse (1874)
Lancashire,
its history, legends, and manufactures - G. N. Wright (1843)
Lancashire; brief
historical and descriptive notes - L. H. Grindon (1892)
Landnama book
of Iceland as it illustrates the dialect, place names, folk lore, &
antiquities of Cumberland, Westmorland,and North
Lancashire - T. Ellwood (1894)
Legends of Lancashire - P. Landreth (1841)
Marriage
Licences Granted Within the Archdeaconry of Chester. Vols. 1, 3, 5, 6 & 7 (1907)
Memorials of
old Lancashire Vols. 1 & 2 - H. Fishwick
(1909)
Miscellanies,
Relating to Lancashire and Cheshire
- W. Beamont (1902)
Nooks and
corners of Lancashire and Cheshire,
a wayfarer's notes in the palatine counties, historical, legendary,
genealogical, and descriptive - J. Croston (1882)
North country
poets - poems and biographies of natives or residents of Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmoreland, Durham,
Lancashire and Yorkshire - W. Andrews (1888)
North
Lancashire - J. E. Marr (1912)
Notes of a
Tour in the Manufacturing Districts of Lancashire
- W. C. Taylor (1842)
Notes on the
churches of Lancashire - S. R. Glynne (1893)
Old halls in
Lancashire and Cheshire - H. Taylor (1884)
Old
south-east Lancashire (1880)
On some
ancient battle-fields in Lancashire and their
historical, legendary, and aesthetic associations by C. Hardwick (1882)
On the south Lancashire dialect - T. Heywood (1861)
Palatine
anthology - a collection of ancient poems and ballads, relating to Lancashire
and Cheshire -
J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
Pedigrees of
the county families of England,
authenticated by the members of each family. The heraldic illus. by J.
Forbes-Nixon. Vol. I - Lancashire - J. Foster
(1873)
Poems, an
offering to Lancashire (1863)
Poems and Lancashire songs - E. Waugh (1861)
Poems, songs
& recitations in the Lancashire dialect -
J. Brown (1881)
Popular
traditions of Lancashire Vols. 1 - 3 - J. Roby
(1843)
Pott's
Discovery of witches in the county
of Lancaster - T. Potts
(1745)
Remains,
historical & literary, connected with the palatine counties of Lancaster and Chester
Vol. 81
Scarsdale;
or, Life on the Lancashire and Yorkshire border, thirty years ago Vols. 1 - 3 -
J. P. Kay-Shuttleworth (1860)
Seets i'
Yorkshire and Lancashire - Grimes' comical trip from Leeds to Liverpool
by canal - J. Hartley (1876)
Sketches of Lancashire life and localities - E. Waugh (1855)
South
Lancashire in the reign of Edward II (1919)
Summer
rambles in Cheshire, Derbyshire, Lancashire, and
Yorkshire - L. H. Grindon (1866)
Tales and
sketches of Lancashire life - B. Brierley
(1884)
That lass o'
Lowrie's, a Lancashire story - F. H. Burnett
(1877)
The annals of
Manchester - a
chronological record from the earliest times to the end of 1885 - W. Axon
(1886)
The apostles
of Fylde Methodism - J. Taylor
(1885)
The birds of Lancashire - F. S. Mitchell (1892)
The Cheshire and Lancashire
historical collector Vols. 1 & 2 (1853)
The Danes in
Lancashire and Yorkshire - S. W. Partington
(1909)
The dialect
of South Lancashire - T. Bobbin (1854)
The earliest
registers of the Parish of Liverpool (St.
Nicholas's Church) - christenings, marriages, and burials pt. 1. (1660-1704)
(1909)
The earliest
registers of the Parish of Liverpool (St.
Nicholas's Church) - christenings, marriages, and burials pt. 2. (1705-1725)
(1909)
The geology
of the Burnley coal-field and of the country around Clitheroe, Blackburn,
Preston, Chorley, Haslingden, and Todmorden - E. Hull
(1875)
The geology
of the country around Oldham, including Manchester
and its suburbs - E. Hull (1864)
The geology
of the country around Prescot, Lancashire - E. Hull
(1882)
The great
civil war in Lancashire, 1642-1651 - E. Broxap
(1910)
The history
of Brunswick Church, Bury - T. P. Dale (1896)
The history
of Everton - including familiar dissertations on the people, and descriptive
delineations of the several & separate properties of the township - R.
Syers (1830)
The history
of Preston, in Lancashire (1882)
The history
of the Lancashire family of Pilkington and its
branches from 1066 to 1600 - J. Pilkington (1894)
The history
of the parish of Preston in Amounderness in the county of Lancaster
- H. Fishwick (1900)
The Jacobite
trials at Manchester
in 1694 - From an unpublished manuscript (1853)
The
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway - T.
Normington (1898)
The Lancashire cotton industry; a study in economic
development - S. J. Chapman (1904)
The
Lancashire Hollands
- B. H. Holland (1917)
The
Lancashire library; a bibliographical account of books on topography,
biography, history, science, and miscellaneous literature relating to the
county palatine - H. Fishwick (1875)
The Lancashire lieutenancy under the Tudors and Stuarts. The
civil and military government of the county, as illustrated by a series of
royal and other letters - J. Harland (1859)
The
Lancashire Pipe rolls of 31 Henry I., A.D. 1130, and of the reigns of Henry II,
A.D. 1155-1189; and King John, A.D. 1199-1216, also early Lancashire
charters of the period (1902)
The makers of
Wesleyan Methodism in Preston and the relation
of Methodism to the Temperance & Tee-total Movements - W. Pilkington (1890)
The
monumental brasses of Lancashire and Cheshire
- J. L. Thornely (1893)
The new
Lancashire gazetteer; containing an accurate description of the several
hundreds, boroughs, market towns, parishes, townships, and hamlets, in the
county palatine of Lancaster - S. R. Clarke (1830)
The
nonconformist register, of baptisms, marriages, and deaths 1644-1702, 1702-1752, ... comprehending
numerous notices of Puritans and Anti-Puritans in Yorkshire, Lancashire,
etc - O. Heywood (1881)
The oldest
register book the parish of Hawkshead in Lancashire.
1568-1704 - H. S. Cooper (1897)
The
palaeontology of the Lancashire coal measures
Vols. 1 & 2 - H. Bolton (1904)
The
parliamentary representation of Lancashire,
(county and borough), 1258-1885, with biographical and genealogical notices of
the members, etc. - W. D. Pink (1889)
The
parliamentary representation of the six northern counties of England.
Cumberland, Durham, Lancashire, Northumberland, Westmoreland, and Yorkshire,
and their cities and boroughs - W. Bean (1890)
The place
names of Lancashire, their origin and history
- H. Wyld (1911)
The
place-names of Lancashire - E. Ekwall (1922)
The
place-names of the Liverpool district; or, The
history and meaning of the local and river names of South-west Lancashire and
of Wirral - H. Harrison (1898)
The races of Lancashire, as indicated by the local names and the
dialect of the county - J. Davies (1856)
The registers
of Hornby, Lancashire 1742-1789 (1922)
The registers
of Saint Helens Chapel in the parish of Prescot pt. 1 (1713-1787) (1900)
The registers
of Saint Helens Chapel in the parish of Prescot pt. 2 (1788-1812) (1900)
The registers
of the church of St.
Lawrence, Denton in the County of Lancaster, 1695-1757 (1913)
The registers
of the parish church of Bolton-le-Sands in the County Of Lancaster,
1665-1736 (1911)
The registers
of the parish church of Burnley in the County of Lancaster.
Christenings, weddings, and burials 1562 to 1653 (1899)
The registers
of the parish church of Bury in the County of Lancasrter.
Christenings, burials, & weddings Vol. 2 (1617-1746) (1901)
The registers
of the parish church of Chorley in the county of Lancaster
1548-1653 (1910)
The registers
of the parish church of Deane (1916)
The registers
of the parish church of Eccles in the County of Lancaster.
Baptisms, burials, and marriages 1564-1632 (1906)
The registers
of the parish church of Eccleston, in the County of Lancaster christenings, burials, and weddings,
1603-1694 (1903)
The registers
of the parish church
of Gorton. 1599-1741
(1913)
The registers
of the parish church of Over Kellet in the County of Lancaster,
1648-1812 (1911)
The registers
of the parish church of Padiham in the County of Lancaster.
Christenings, burials, and weddings, 1573 to 1653 (1903)
The registers
of the parish church
of Prestwich ; baptisms,
burials and weddings, 1603-1688 (1909)
The registers
of the parish church
of Rochdale, (1642-1700)
Pt. 1 (1921)
The registers
of the parish church
of Rochdale, (1642-1700)
Pt. 2 (1921)
The registers
of the parish church of Urswick in Furness, Lancashire.
Christenings, weddings, and burials, 1608-1695 (1907)
The registers
of the parish church of Whittington in the County of Lancaster.
Christenings, burials, and weddings, 1538 to 1764 (1899)
The registers
of the parish of Croston in the County
of Lancaster (1900)
The registers
of the parish of Middleton in the County
of Lancaster.
Christenings, Burials, and weddings (1902)
The registers
of the parish of Pilling, in the County
of Lancaster (1910)
The registers
of the parish of Walton=le=Dale in the Country of Lancaster
baptisms, burials and marriages 1609-1812 - G. Clayton (1910)
The registers
of Woodplumpton in the county
of Lancaster - baptisms,
burials, and marriages Pt. 2 (1659-1784) (1906)
The Song of
Solomon in the Lancashire dialect, as spoken at Bolton
- J. T. Staton (1859)
The story of
the Lancashire Congregational Union, 1806-1906
- B. Nightingale (1906)
The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster Vols.
1 – 7 (1906-1912)
The
visitation of Lancashire and a part of Cheshire, made in the twenty-fourth year
of the reign of King Henry the Eighth, 1533 A.D. Vols. 1 & 2 (1876)
The visitation
of the county palatine of Lancaster,
made in the year 1613 - R. Saint-George (1871)
The war
history of the 1st 4th Battalion, the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, now the
Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire), 1914-1918
(1921)
The worthies
of Yorkshire and Lancashire; being lives of the most distinguished persons that
have been born in, or connected with, those provinces - H. Coleridge (1832)
Three Lancashire documents of the fourteenth and fifteenth
centuries (published 1868)
Tim Bobbin's Lancashire dialect and poems - T. Bobbin (1828)
Tracts
relating to military proceedings in Lancashire
during the great civil war - G. Ormerod (1844)
Traditions of
Lancashire Vols. 1 & 2 - J. Roby (1872)
Traditions,
superstitions, and folklore, (chiefly Lancashire and the north of England)
their affinity to others in widely-distributed localities - C. Hardwick (1872)
Transactions
of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire
for the year 1914 (1914)
Walks in South Lancashire and on its borders - S. Bamford (1844)
Yorkshire
place names, as recorded in the Yorkshire Domenday book, 1086 - comprising all
the references (nearly five thousand,) to places in the three ridings and North Lancashire - J. H. Turner (1901)
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