Little Marsden is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Lancashire, created in 1783 from a chapelry in Whalley Ancient Parish.
Parish church:
Parish registers begin: 1811
Nonconformists include: Society of Friends/Quaker and Wesleyan Methodist.
Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
Nelson
Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870
NELSON, a village in Little Marsden township, Whalley parish, Lancashire; adjacent to the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway, 3 ½ miles NNE of Burnley. It has a station on the railway, a post-office under Burnley, and an Independent chapel built in 1865; and is lighted with gas.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
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England, Lancashire, Marsden – Cemeteries ( 3 )
Great Marsden (Nelson), St. John the Evangelist : memorial insciptions & grave books
Author: Lancashire Family History & Heraldry Society
Great Marsden St. John’s Church memorial inscriptions
Author: Whittaker, Gladys; Crowther, Doreen; Rossendale Society for Genealogy and Heraldry (Lancashire)
Marsden, Briercliffe, Foulridge, Newhead [monumental inscriptions]
Author: Scott, E. G.; Scott, E. G., Mrs.; Holgate, Elizabeth
England, Lancashire, Marsden – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Great and Little Marsden, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office
England, Lancashire, Marsden – Census – 1851 ( 2 )
Foulridge, 1851 [census] : Great Marsden, folio 145-folio 209
Author: Whittaker, Gladys; Crowther, Doreen; Holgate, C. M.
Little Marsden : folio 5 – folio 141 HO 107/2254
Author: Whittaker, Gladys; Crowther, Doreen; Holgate, C. M.; Holgate, Elizabeth; Rossendale Society for Genealogy and Heraldry (Lancashire)
England, Lancashire, Marsden – Church records ( 9 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Little Marsden and Great Marsden, 1813-1854
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Little Marsden (Lancashire); Church of England. Chapelry of Great Marsden (Lancashire)
Church records, 1654-1775
Author: Society of Friends. Marsden Monthly Meeting (Lancashire)
England, Lancashire, Marsden, Great, St. John the Evangelist parish registers, 1899-1958
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Great Marsden (Lancashire); Lancashire Records Office (Preston, England)
English Friends records, Lancashire, births, 1650-1729, marriages, 1655-1729, deaths, 1659-1729
Author: Cope, Gilbert, 1840-1928
Marriages, births and burials, 1654-1837
Author: Society of Friends. Marsden Monthly Meeting (Lancashire)
Parish registers for Great Marsden, 1845-1900
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Great Marsden (Lancashire)
Parish registers for Little Marsden, 1813-1900
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Little Marsden (Lancashire)
Parish registers for St. Bartholomew’s Church, Colne, 1599-1900
Author: Church of England. St. Bartholomew’s Church (Colne, Lancashire)
Parish registers for St. Mary’s Church, Nelson, 1879-1900
Author: Church of England. St. Mary’s Church (Nelson, Lancashire)
England, Lancashire, Marsden – History ( 1 )
The history of Marsden and Nelson
Author: Bennett, W. (Walter)
Administration
- County: Lancashire
- Civil Registration District: Burnley
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Chester (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Manchester
- Rural Deanery: Whalley
- Poor Law Union: Burnley
- Hundred: Blackburn
- Province: York