Lancashire_Parish_Register_Society

Lancashire Parish Register Society

Lancashire Parish Register Society

Text publication society and registered charity

The Lancashire Parish Register Society is a text publication society and registered charity which was founded for the "purpose of printing the registers of the ancient parishes" in Lancashire and has published more than 175 volumes, CDs and CD-Roms since 1898.

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History

The society was formed at a meeting at Chetham's Library, convened by the historian Henry Fishwick, on 26 November 1897, but the year 1898 was fixed as the first year of the society's existence. The society became a registered charity (No. 511396) in 1981.[1]

Publications

Since 1898, the society has published 175 printed volumes of Lancashire's parish registers, as well as numerous CDs and CD-Roms.[2] The society published its 175th volume in 2012.[3]

Membership

Membership is open to all individuals and institutions interested in the parish registers of the county.

Officers

Presidents

General Editors

  • 1976–2008 Dr Colin D. Rogers
  • 2008–present Alan A. Kenwright

Secretaries

  • 1897–98 Rev. W. Löwenberg
  • 1898–1931 Dr Henry Brierley
  • 1931–56 Archibald Sparke
  • 1941–82 Dr Frank Taylor
  • 1982–86 Jean M. Ayton
  • 1986–89 Irene Foster
  • 1989–93 R. Neil Hudson
  • 1993–99 John Leslie Ogilvie Holden
  • 1999–2010 Marnie Mason
  • 2010–present R. Neil Hudson

Treasurers

  • 1897–1936 John Rigg Faithwaite
  • 1936–48 Dr Ernest Bosdin Leech
  • 1948–77 Dr Robert Dickinson
  • 1971–77 Florence Dickinson
  • 1977–95 J. R. Bulmer
  • 1995–2005 T. O’Brien
  • 2005–08 Alan A. Kenwright
  • 2008–present Jackie Roberts

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Charity Commission of England and Wales". Charity Commission of England and Wales. 11 December 2015. Retrieved 11 December 2015.
  2. [2]
    Lancashire Parishes for the Genealogist (Lancashire Parish Register Society, 2007), s. 1. ISBN 1-85445-157-X.
  3. [3]
    The Registers of the Parish of Wigan, 1711-40, ed. K. T. Taylor, Lancashire Parish Register Society, 175 (2012). ISBN 978-1-85445-171-2.
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