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Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Merseyside and Isle of Man
Ancestry £ ancestry.co.uk
Has major Liverpool and Manchester collections with baptism, marriage, banns and burial collections, plus material for Cheshire and Cumbria.
FamilySearch familysearch.org
Provides access to records from the Diocese of Manchester, as well as transcriptions of registers from Cheshire Archives. There are parish collections for Lancashire (1538-1910) and Isle of Man registers (1598-2009) too.
Findmypast £ findmypast.co.uk
Its Cheshire Collection, produced with Cheshire Archives and Local Studies and FamilySearch, has baptisms, marriages and burials for the Diocese of Chester (1538-1911) and bishops’ transcripts (1576-1906).
FreeREG freereg.org.uk
Explore parish registers for Cheshire (7,882), Cumberland (73,814), Lancashire (1,609,975) and Westmorland (23,998).
TheGenealogist £ thegenealogist.co.uk
Has a large number of Lancashire parishes often drawn from printed volumes of transcriptions.
Lancashire OPC lan-opc.org.uk
There’s an A-Z of parishes, a single rose symbol means further information for that parish is available, two symbols indicates some records are online.
Manx National Heritage imuseum.im/search
Search Isle of Man registers by clicking the ‘People’ button and then selecting ether baptisms, burials or marriages from the advanced search drop- down.