Manchester and Lancashire Family History Society

Bolton, Lancashire memorial inscriptions

http://mlfhs.org.uk/index.php

Manchester and Lancashire Family History Society (MLFHS) has added records for 20 burial sites in the Bolton, Lancashire area (see listing below) comprising over 52,000 memorial inscriptions carefully transcribed to computerised format. The records date back to 1555.

MLFHS is one of the largest family history societies in the UK and a member of Manchester's Archives+ partnership. The society, a registered charity founded 50 years ago, has a branch specialising in family history research in Bolton.

The MLFHS sites with records on Deceased Online are as follows:
- St Peter, Belmont, Bolton 1850
- St Katherine, Blackrod 1777
- St Peter Bolton le Moor Bolton 1685
- St Stephen, Lever Bridge 1807
- Emmanuel, Bolton 1848
- St Paul, Astley Bridge, Astley 1848
- Wesleyan Chape, Fletcher St, Bolton 1815
- Chirst Church, Walmsley 1820
- Unitarian Chapel, Walmsley 1721
- Old Chapel, Walmsley 1721
- St James, Breightmet 1830
- St Maxentius, Bradshaw 1851
- St Mary Deane (Old and New) Bolton 1555
- St Michael, Bolton 1838
- St John, Farnworth 1820
- St Paul, Halliwell 1801
- Holy Trinity, Horwich 1714
- Lea Lane Chapel, Horwich 1787
- Congregational United Reform, Little Lever 1833
- St Bartholomew, Westhoughton 1735

Deceased Online has a substantial range of 415,000 other burial and cremation records (which include register scans, grave details and a range of cemetery maps) for the area managed by Bolton Council. These are:
- Blackrod Cemetery, opened 1887
- Farnworth Cemetery, opened 1876
- Heaton Cemetery, opened 1879
- Horwich (Ridgemont) Cemetery, opened 1928
- Tonge Cemetery, opened 1856
- Westhoughton Cemetery, open 1858
- Overdale Crematorium, opened 1954