For queries within the area of Lancashire between the Ribble and the Mersey.
This board covers the areas of all our Groups - Liverpool, Southport, Warrington, Skelmersdale, Leigh and Widnes.
Thank you Bertieone for your replies and the link to adding images. Thanks to everyone else for their thoughts.
I asked the same question on another forum and got lots of lovely replies with peoples memories of hearing passing bells. I have a much better idea of what it was all about, even down to there being different peals for men, women and children.
Someone suggested the bells were rung on the day of death, so can I take the date entry as date of death?
And could this mean the actual burial took place at another time?
Or shall I just assume the vicar or recorder had a quirk and the entries were in fact burials? I know I shouldn't assume anything
Jane B
Names in the Liverpool area: Morrow, Blackburn, Bell, Critchley, Clough, Falkner
Happy to help with New Zealand look ups
My opinion would be the bells were rung during the funeral/ burial service and not the day the death occurred.
I will find again and post reports from the newspapers which I think will support this. Yes, it is correct, you could tell the gender of the deceased by the bells .
The date you have in the parish records, will be the date of burial.
