Lancs County Council is one of the more advanced both in vision and implementation of it’s archives online, This is just one intriguing resource worth a search if your family possibly pre-date the 1837 BMD Registers in the area. Take at a look at the notes to the collection here. There are 40,000 of them available got to be worth a search or two…

You can easily use their online search tool which is available without registration here