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LINKS - Lancashire Directories, Registers, Lists
« on: Sunday 20 June 04 19:25 BST (UK) »

Directories of Lancashire

- searchable by location, date and keyword:


Gore's Directory of Liverpool, 1766 (reprint)
Scholes's Manchester & Salford Directory, 1794
Scholes's Manchester & Salford Directory, 1797
Pigot & Dean's New Directory of Manchester and Salford, 1821-22
Gore's Liverpool Directory, 1825
Gores' Directory of Liverpool, 1827
Gores' Directory of Liverpool, 1829
Pigot & Slater's Directory of Manchester & Salford, 1841
Slater's Directory of Manchester & Salford, 1850
Gore's Directory of Liverpool & its Environs, 1853
Whellan's Directory of Manchester & Salford, 1853
Slater's Directory of Manchester and Salford, 1863
History and Directory of Mid Lancashire, 1854
Slater's Directory of Manchester & Salford, 1876. [Part 1: Alphabetical Directory]
Slater's Directory of Manchester & Salford, 1876. [Part 2: Trades, Institutions, Streets, etc.]
Slater's Directory of Manchester & Salford, 1877-78. [Part 1: Alphabetical Directory]
Slater's Directory of Manchester & Salford, 1877-8. [Part 2: Trades, Institutions, Streets, etc.]
Slater's Directory of Manchester & Salford, 1879. [Part 1: Alphabetical Directory]
Slater's Directory of Manchester & Salford, 1879. [Part 2: Trades, Institutions, Streets, etc.]
Slater's Directory of Manchester & Salford, 1883. [Part 1: Alphabetical Directory]
Slater's Directory of Manchester & Salford, 1883. [Part 2: Trades, Institutions, Streets, etc.]
Slater's Directory of Manchester & Salford, 1886. [Part 1: Alphabetical Directory]
Slater's Directory of Manchester & Salford, 1886. [Part 2: Trades, Institutions, Streets, etc.]
Cotton Spinners & Manufacturers' Directory, 1891. [Lancashire]
Kelly's Directory of Liverpool & Birkenhead, 1894. [Part 1: Liverpool]   
Kelly's Directory of Liverpool & Birkenhead, 1894. [Part 2: Birkenhead and Trade & Court Directories]
Slater's Manchester & Salford Directory, 1895. [Part 1: Alphabetical Directory]
Slater's Manchester & Salford Directory, 1895. [Part 2: Trades, Institutions, Streets, etc.]
General & Commercial Directory of Burnley, Nelson ..., 1896
Gore's Directory of Liverpool & Birkenhead, 1900. [Part 1: Street List & Street Directory]
Gore's Directory of Liverpool & Birkenhead, 1900. [Part 2: Alphabetical Directory]
Gore's Directory of Liverpool & Birkenhead, 1900. [Part 3: Trade & Official Directories
Slater's Manchester, Salford & Suburban Directory, 1903. [Part 1: Topography & Street Directory]
Slater's Manchester, Salford & Suburban Directory, 1903. [Part 2: Alphabetical Directory]
Slater's Manchester, Salford & Suburban Directory, 1903. [Part 3: Trades & Official Directories, etc.]
Slater's Manchester, Salford & Suburban Directory, 1903. [Part 4: Suburban Directory]
Slater's Manchester, Salford & Suburban Directory, 1909. [Part 1: Topography & Street Directory]
Slater's Manchester, Salford & Suburban Directory, 1909. [Part 2: Alphabetical Directory ]
Slater's Manchester, Salford & Suburban Directory, 1909. [Part 3: Trades & Official Directories, etc.]
Slater's Manchester, Salford & Suburban Directory, 1909. [Part 4: Suburban Directory]
Slater's Manchester, Salford & Suburban Directory, 1911. [Part 1: Street Directory]
Slater's Manchester, Salford & Suburban Directory, 1911. [Part 2: Alphabetical Directory]
Slater's Manchester, Salford & Suburban Directory, 1911. [Part 3: Trades, Ecclesiastical, etc.]
Slater's Manchester, Salford & Suburban Directory, 1911. [Part 4: Suburban, Banking, etc.]
Bulmer's History & Directory of Lancaster & District, 1912
General & Commercial Directory of Preston, 1917

Pigot's Lancashire 1828 - Extracts - covering Bury, Haslingden and Newchurch
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Re: LINKS - Lancashire Directories, Registers, Lists
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 12 June 07 15:08 BST (UK) »
I hope the short list of some of the Directories held in Manchester Library prove to be useful to members

Elizabeth Raffald's Directory for Manchester and Salford 1772

Manchester and Salford Directory 1788 Published: Neil Richardson, 1984
Published: Manchester and Lancashire Family History Society. 

Banks's Manchester and Salford directory 1800 : alphabetical list of the merchants, manufacturers and principle inhabitants
Published: Neil Richardson, 1982

Directories of Irish born people and resident in Manchester and Salford in the 1861 census.
Published: Manchester and Lancashire Family History Society.
Vol. 1 : Ancoats
Vol. 2 : Ardwick, Beswick, Bradford and Newton and Cheetham sub-districts
Vol. 3 : Deansgate sub-district
Vol. 4 : Withington, Didsbury, Fallowfield, Levenshulme, Chorlton, Chorlton on Medlock, Ardwick (part), Gorton, Hyde Road gaol and Openshawe

Kelly's directory of Lancashire with Slater's Manchester and Gore's Liverpool Edition 27th ed. 1898

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Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

CHS: Barber(Tabley) Barlow(Antrobus) Blackshaw(Lymm, Mobberley) Blease/Done/Moore(G Bud) Owen(Netherton, Tabley) Spragg/Witter(Goostrey) Youd(Frodsham) Pennell Bankes Birchall Beckett
DBY: Higginbottom(Mellor)
HRT: Gurney
HRT/BED/ESS: Verney (Markyate St)
LAN: Davenport(Bolton) Schofield/Gurney(Oldham) Lord(Heap) Quinn(Manchester) Sutcliffe(Rossendale)
NTH: Tubb/Johnson(Hellidon)Brown(Kettering)
YKS: Scott(Clapham)

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LINKS - Lancashire Directories, Registers, Lists
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 05 December 10 18:09 GMT (UK) »
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Family and Business in North-west England, 1760-1820
DESCRIPTION: Searchable database of individuals and families involved in small family businesses in the north-west of England between 1760-1820.

Paradise Mill, Oldham Wage Records: 1852 to 1858

Factory Workers in Cotton Factories around Manchester 1819 - 1819 - the main page shows a list of the factories included - click on the "dataset" link for a list of the workers in comma delimited format.

Liverpool Schools Index
List of Liverpool schoolteachers from the 1891 census
A spreadsheet containing information relating to Liverpool schoolteachers, extracted from 1891 census Currently contains over 4000 names - can be viewed and downloaded from the link.

Manchester Unity of Odd Fellows Directory -  Transcribed by Ted Wildy and is listed Alphabetically giving date of birth, Death and burial information.
Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

CHS: Barber(Tabley) Barlow(Antrobus) Blackshaw(Lymm, Mobberley) Blease/Done/Moore(G Bud) Owen(Netherton, Tabley) Spragg/Witter(Goostrey) Youd(Frodsham) Pennell Bankes Birchall Beckett
DBY: Higginbottom(Mellor)
HRT: Gurney
HRT/BED/ESS: Verney (Markyate St)
LAN: Davenport(Bolton) Schofield/Gurney(Oldham) Lord(Heap) Quinn(Manchester) Sutcliffe(Rossendale)
NTH: Tubb/Johnson(Hellidon)Brown(Kettering)
YKS: Scott(Clapham)


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Re: LINKS - Lancashire Directories, Registers, Lists
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 04 November 14 12:06 GMT (UK) »
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Re: LINKS - Lancashire Directories, Registers, Lists
« Reply #5 on: Monday 27 February 17 10:50 GMT (UK) »
Sadly the links that Christopher had given to the MLFHS registers no longer in available but here are some additional directories from the special collections.

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01jl4/
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