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This is a link page to all information collected to date on Earlam Births and Baptisms, Marriages and Deaths and Burials.

Britain

Civil Registration in England and Wales
From the third quarter 1837 all births, deaths and marriages were registered centrally by the Registrar General. The General Registry Office Detail on these has been collected both from the indexes prepared by the GRO and actual certificates obtained. See Civil Registration in England and Wales for Earlam entries that have been extracted.

Parish Registers in England and Wales
The earliest parish registers commenced in 1538. They documented baptisms, marriages, banns and burials. From 1598 copies of these registers were also sent by the parish priest to bishops or archdeacons and are known as bishops' or archdeacons' transcripts. From the 1600s protestant groups such as Baptists and other 'non-conformists' also started to keep their own registers. The largest index of these has been developed by the Mormons (Church of Latter Day Saints) and is called the IGI or International Genealogical Index. See Parish Registers for Earlam events in the following counties: Cheshire, Lancashire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, Somerset and Worcestershire.

Monumental Inscriptions in England and Wales
Many inscriptions on gravestones have been recorded and some have been indexed. See MIs for Earlam events in the following counties: Cheshire, Lancashire

Marriages Licences and Bonds in England and Wales
Hardwick's Marriage Act of 1753 confirmed ecclesiatical law by requiring that all marriages after 25 March 1754 (except for Quakers and Jews) had to follow banns or be authorised by a licence. Marriage licences avoided the calling of banns over the three weeks before a wedding could take place. Perhaps the couple needed to marry quickly because the bride was pregnant or because the groom was going abroad. Most people were married by banns because licences cost more money than banns. However, for those who could afford it, marriage licences could be a status symbol. See Marriage Licences and Bonds

Boyd's Marriage Index
Boyd's Marriage Index was compiled by Percival Boyd from printed and transcribed parish registers, Bishop's Transcripts, marriage licences and other sources. Only a percentage of actual marriages in each county is indexed.

There are actually three series. The first series or the Main Series, is arranged in county order; not all counties are included and not all parishes within each county. There are separate volumes for each county. See Earlam's in Boyd's Marriages in Lancashire and Boyd's Marriages in Middlesex.

The second series, also called the Miscellaneous Marriage Index, is arranged in phonetic name order. The third series was completed by the library staff of the Genealogical Society, Salt Lake City, after Boyd's death in 1955. This series is arranged in strictly alphabetical order. For microfilming, the second and third series were combined and are called Boyd's Miscellaneous Marriage Index, Second Series. The Earlam marriages extracted here are from this Second Series. Most of the marriages for Earlam are from Cheshire. See Earlam's in Boyd's Miscellaneous Series.

North and East Cheshire Marriages
Compiled by the Family History Society of Cheshire. Covers the years 1754-1837 for most parishes east of a line drawn from Runcorn to Audlem, together with several thousand entries for Cheshire people married in other counties. Originally compiled by Pauline Litton. See Earlam's in North and East Cheshire Marriages.

Australia

NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages

Prior to 1901 each state of Australia was a separate government or colony. Vital records in a particular state typically begin at the time of the colony's formation, with earlier records (except for Western Australia) found in New South Wales (the original jurisdictional body for Australia).

Records for NSW include both early chuch records and civil registration records from 1856.

NSW Births 1788-1905, Marriages 1788-1955 and Deaths 1788-1975

Ryerson Index to Contemporary Death Notices and Obituaries in Australian Newspapers

An on-going index of death notices, obituary notices and genealogical queries published in the two Sydney daily newspapers, the Sydney Morning Herald and the Daily Telegraph. Indexing commenced in October 1998. Back-indexing the Sydney Morning Herald for the years 1986-1998 is in process. The Kiama Independent is also included. See Earlams in Ryerson Index.

South Australia
Births 1842-1928, Marriages 1842-1937 and Deaths 1842-1915

Victoria
Births 1836-1888, Marriages 1836-1913 and Deaths 1836-1985

Monumental Inscriptions in Australia
Ayr Cemetery, Burdekin, Queensland

BMD Indexes, Australia
International Genealogical Index (IGI), Australia

America

Social Security Death Index

Other Death Indexes

Memorial Inscriptions, USA 

Canada

IGI Canada
British Columbia State Archives