St John the Evangelist, Gressingham - Church of England

St John the Evangelist,
Gressingham
Lancashire

Cemeteries

The church has a graveyard.

Church History

It was founded before 1225.

Church Records

Whilst every effort has been made to record exact details of record office and library holdings you are recommended to check with them before visiting to ensure that they do hold the records and years you wish to examine. Similarly check with transcript publishers to ensure they cover the records and years you require before making a purchase.

Original registers

Lancashire Record Office hold:

• Baptisms 1676-1888
• Marriages 1676-1837
• Burials 1676-1888

Bishop's Transcripts

Lancashire Record Office hold:

• Baptisms 1710-1992
• Marriages 1710-1804, 1813-1835
• Burials 1710-1993

Register Transcripts

The Lancashire Parish Register Society have published:

• Volume 59 - Bap 1676-1812, Mar 1691-1828, Bur 1678-1812.

Indexes

Boyd's marriage index 1676-1835 is held at the Lancashire Record Office.

The IGI contains:

• Baptisms - 1676-1812

Transcripts/indexes in progress

• Marriages 1837-1993, baptisms & burials 1813-1993 are being transcribed by Phil Stringer, for publication by the Lancashire Parish Register Society.

  Status: Aug 2006 - The original data was scanned from a list produced by A.H. Thompson and converted to database format. The bapt/bur records up to 1910 have been checked and corrected against the film at the LRO. A second check of this needs to be performed. A check against the BTs also needs to be undertaken. The marriage register is still held by the church, and the vicar will be contacted to see if it is possible to photograph it to perform a check of the original transcript and to add in any extra detail which may be present. It is expected that entries less than 100 years old will not be published so effort is not being put into checking these at this stage.

Work on transcripts and indexes start off with good intentions, but circumstances can arise which mean that the task is larger than first envisaged, or other tasks require the trancribers time. So there is no guarantee that publication will always take place or that initially envisaged target dates will be met.

The work being undertaken is not being done as part of GENUKI, so it will not be available for online research as part of this site. This does not of course preclude it being made available in this way elsewhere. The final publication medium will be determined by the trancriber.

Maps

The church is located at OS grid reference SD5724069924. You can see this on maps provided by:

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