Our Lady's RC Church, Lydiate | Views Of The Churchyard 

Ormskirk and District Family History (registered charity no. 1004895) are delighted to introduce a new video featuring a blend of historical information relating Our Lady’s Roman Catholic Church, on Hall Lane, Lydiate, and photos of the church and graveyard that were taken in July 2023.
Evidence shows that Lydiate was sympathetic to the Catholic religion for centuries, in spite of numerous laws and penalties that were specifically designed to discourage them during the Elizabethan and early Stuart period.
The modern church was opened in the 1850s, and a memorial to World War I soldiers can be found in the grounds. Other features of the churchyard are quite considerably older.
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RESOURCES USED TO PREPARE THIS VIDEO
Recusant Rolls for West Derby Hundred (1641); transcribed by W.E. Gregson, published in Vol. 50 of the Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire (1898), pg.232
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Lancashire Quarter Sessions. Records: Register of Recusants 1682; published by the North West Catholic History Society (1999)
'Townships: Lydiate', in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 3, ed. William Farrer and J Brownbill (London, 1907), pp. 200-208. British History Online www.british-his... [accessed 8 October 2023].
Parish registers for Our Lady’s RC Church, Lydiate, held at the Lancashire Archives, Bow Lane, Preston, Lancashire [microfilm reference - DDX 241/23]
1841 Census for Lydiate Hall, Lydiate, Lancashire
1851 Census for Lydiate Hall, Lydiate, Lancashire
Liverpool Mercury, Tuesday 1 January 1850
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History and Directory of Mid Lancashire (1854), editor - P. Mannex, pp.645-651
www.genuki.org... - general historical information about Our Lady’s RC Church, Lydiate
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Historical Notes on English Catholic Missions (1907), editor - Bernard William Kelly
[accessed on 7 October 2023]
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[accessed on 7 October 2023]