
- All burial and cremation records for the large South Lancashire local authority area of Blackburn with Darwen have been added to www.deceasedonline.com
- The new collection includes nearly 350,000 individual burial and cremation records comprising nearly 1 million data items including:
- digital scans of original burial and cremation registers
- details of all interments in each grave
- maps indicating the cemetery section location for each grave
- Blackburn and Darwen was a thriving industrial area, world-renowned for cotton and textile production as well as engineering, brewing, mining and other industries throughout the late 18th and 19th centuries.