Links to other sites about Halsall
Halsall St Cuthbert’s CE Primary School
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.