Links to other sites about Halsall

Halsall on Wikipedia

Halsall St Cuthbert’s Church

Halsall St Cuthbert’s CE Primary School

Halsall Parish Council 

Halsall Memorial Hall – War Memorials Register

Halsall – St Cuthbert’s Church Records at Online Parish Clerk (OPC)

Historic Society of Lancashire & Cheshire – A Moat or Medieval Fish Pond at Scarisbrick Hall?

Lancashire History Magazine – Archives. Free Digital Copies

“Old Man of Halsall Moss” – a ghost story from Fortean Times

Ormskirk and District Family History Society

Ormskirk and District Family History Society – Elizabeth Moorcroft’s (9JNS-B4N) Postcard Collection

Ormskirk and District Family History Society – Elizabeth Moorcroft’s (9JNS-B4N) Autograph Collection

ODFHS  Boat Families of Leeds Liverpool Canal

Ormskirk & West Lancs Numismatic Society  – Halsall Penny and Colonel Mordaunt’s Mill

St Cuthbert and Halsall Community Hub Archives

Reviews

Wanderers in Time and Place – Halsall

General Genealogy

Genuki            (Reference library of UK genealogical information, suggested sources for any UK location)

Ancestry         (leading commercial UK and world genealogical software/system)
[mainly pay-to-use]

Findmypast    (another commercial largely UK software/system)

                          [mainly pay-to-use]

FamilySearch (largest source of world information and a single world family tree )

                          [free-to-use]

Lancashire Online Parish Clerks  (Most counties have volunteers to transcribe parish records pre1837)

                         [free-to-use. St Cuthbert’s Parish Registers are well documented)
WikiTree         (relatively new single world free family tree)

                         [free-to-use]

GRO                 (UK Registry Office, source of all UK birth, marriage & death certificates)
[some free information. The cheapest source of certificates – do not buy from other websites]
[Now offering instant access to older birth and death certificates for only £2.50 each (2024)]

FreeBMD        (Index of UK certificates, from 1837 up to mid 1990’s.)
[Free-to-use. Mother’s maiden names for births after 1911. ]

                         [Wild card and long date range searching on names that can’t do on GRO.]

Rootschat      (probably largest forum for advice and information from fellow researchers)

Internet Archive.  Millions of documents harvested from websites, most of which are no longer available. Try search for “Genealogy” for text books  or “Population Census” for free access to many Census returns from around the world, especially US ones. 

 

Books

John Cotterall, Halsall The Village Built on a Rock, (Carnegie Publishing 2000)

Stephen Henders, Curfew over the Moss, ( Countyvise 2014). Tales of Halsall Church from medieval times to the present.

Stephen Henders, Halsall Chimes and Ages Past, (Lutebearer 2024)

Stephen Henders, Barton Rose Queens (Lutebearer 2024)

Richard Cheetham-Houghton, Burscough Boatmen: Their Marriages and Their Boats (March 1999)

Peter Nodin, These Charming Acres  (Internet Archive)

Taylor & Radcliffe, Notes on Parish and Church of Halsall (1896, Internet Archive).  Detailed drawings of church architecture.