The Church of St James, Haslingden in the County of -- Lancashire --

Churchings at St James
in the Township of Haslingden, Rossendale
Churchings recorded in the Register for 1608 - 1617

This transcription is taken from a mixed register containing Baptisms, Burials and Churchings. The document is in very poor condition, and has been restored and then rebound. Many entries are barely readable, and some pages appear out of sequence. Page numbers had been added in pencil at some stage in the past, and where those exist we have included them in our transcription; these do not always correspond with the page order in the rebound book. Our transcription presents the material in the order in which we believe it was originally entered in the book.

This transcription has drawn upon source material from both the Parish Register [PR] and Bishop's Transcripts [BT]. There are often discrepancies between the sources, and where those differences are significant, a note has been added.

In some entries, it is unclear whether the event was a Baptism (Bapt), Burial (Bur) or Churching (Pur[ification]). Where it has not been possible to categorise them, some events have been included in more than one transcription, with a note.