Record agents
List of Record Agents
The people whose names are included on this list may be available to undertake paid research in local archives. Arrangements must be made directly with the record agents themselves and not through Lancashire Archives. Lancashire Archives staff cannot recommend particular agents nor enter into any negotiations concerning them.
Please note that inclusion on this list does not constitute any guarantee of availability and that Lancashire Archives cannot be held responsible for any work undertaken.
This list was last updated November 2023.
Name: Jane Hamby
Qualifications: LHG
Address: 26 Fulwood Hall Lane
Preston
PR2 8DB
Email Address: hambyje@aol.com
Family and Local History: A comprehensive genealogical service searching all types of records, background research for authors, digital photography of documents and ancestral locations.
House History
Research for Legal Enquiries: adoption and intestacy.
Palaeography and Transcription
Areas Covered: Lancashire, Cumbria, and Cheshire.
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Business Name: Lancashire Family History Research
Name: Denise A Harman
Qualifications: Over 40 years’ Archive experience.
Address: 12 Wrights Fold, Leyland, Preston. PR25 4HT
Email Address: deniseharman62@gmail.com
Website: http://www.lancashirefamilyhistoryresearch.co.uk
Family and Local History: A comprehensive service provided by a long-established professional researcher. Photography, Problem solving, and document ordering.
House History: Detailed property searches.
Research for Legal Enquiries: Tracing living relatives, and Probate inquiries.
Research for Media: Worked with the producers of ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’, and ‘Secrets of the Workhouse’.
Palaeography and Transcription: English Palaeography and Transcription from 16th Century onwards.
Areas Covered: Lancashire, Cheshire & Cumbria, searching all records held at the Lancashire Archives and other repositories.
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Business Name: Kate Hurst Family History Research
Name: Kate Hurst
Qualifications: BA (Hons)
Address: 15 Beverley Drive
Clitheroe
BB7 1HY
Email Address: kate.hurst@icloud.com
Website: http://katehurst.wix.com/kate-hurst-research
Family and Local History: BMD, census, parish register and trade directory, land tax and probate searches.
Particular interest in Roman Catholic records and pre-1900 records
House History
Research for Legal Enquiries
Research for TV/radio companies
Document transcription
Areas Covered: All areas of old Lancashire, including Liverpool and Manchester, as well as North and West Yorkshire.
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Business Name: House Historians North West
Name: Carole Knight
Qualifications:
Address: 14 Higher Bank Road
Preston
PR2 8PD
Email Address: info@househistorians.co.uk
Website: http://www.househistorians.co.uk
House History: Research into history of Lancashire and South Cumbria buildings, the people associated with them, and the area in which they are situated
Research for Legal Enquiries
Areas Covered: Lancashire and South Cumbria
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Business Name: Evergreen Ancestry
Name: Anne Mealia
Qualifications: BA(Hons) MA, PGDipLib, Higher Certificate in Genealogy; AGRA member
Address: 1 Castle Cottage
Dobroyd Road
Todmorden
OL14 7JJ
Email Address: info@evergreenancestry.com
Website: http://evergreenancestry.com
Family and Local History: Comprehensive research in all records, including Roman Catholic registers
Palaeography and Transcription: 16th-19th centuries
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Name: Simon Martin
Qualifications: BSc(Hons) Cert HE; AGRA member
Address: 21 Petticoat Lane
Higher Ince
Wigan
WN2 2LH
Email Address: FamilyHistoryDet@aol.com
Family and Local History: Comprehensive service including research in pre-1858 and post-1858 probate records, parish registers, Census returns in Lancashire, Liverpool, Manchester, Wigan, and GRO indexes.
Research for Media: Historical research for TV companies and academics.
Areas Covered: Research also carried out in other northern counties
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Business Name: Lancashire Origins
Name: J Alan Smith
Qualifications:
Address: 11 St Judes Avenue
Walton le Dale
Preston
PR5 4UH
Email Address: smithhouse11@hotmail.co.uk
Website: http://www.lancashireorigins.co.uk
Family and Local History: Comprehensive genealogical service searching all types of records
Palaeography and Transcription
Areas Covered: Lancashire, Cumbria, Cheshire Also other areas by arrangement
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Business Name: Archive Mole
Name: Matthew Kidd
Qualifications:
Email Address: info@archivemole.com
Website: http://www.archivemole.com
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Name: Jayne Stevenson
Qualifications: BA (Hons)
Address: 11 Kipling Drive
Blackpool
FY3 9UX
Email Address: jayne408@btinternet.com
Website: www.jaynesgenealogy.co.uk
Family and Local History: all family and local history research, Including Military
House History
Research for Media
Palaeography and Transcription
Areas Covered: Lancashire and North West, as well as other areas of the UK
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Business Name: Anglia Research
Name: Eileen Butcher
Qualifications: AGRA member
Address: Gordon House
3-5 Leicester Street
Southport
PR9 0ER
Email Address: eileen.butcher@angliaresearch.co.uk
Website: http://www.angliaresearch.co.uk
Family and Local History
Research for Legal Enquiries
Research for Media: TV researcher for Who Do You Think You Are? etc.
Areas Covered: Lancashire and Cheshire