Standish, Lancashire Genealogy
Guide to Standish, Lancashire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records. See a List of Chapelries in the Parish of Standish
| Standish, Lancashire | |
|---|---|
| Type | England Jurisdictions |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Leyland |
| County | Lancashire, England Genealogy |
| Poor Law Union | Wigan |
| Registration District | Chorley; Wigan |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1558 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1611 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Leyland |
| Diocese | Manchester |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Bishop of Chester (Episcopal Consistory) |
| Location of Archive | |
| Lancashire Archives | |
Parish History[edit | edit source]
STANDISH St Wilfrid, a parish, in the unions of Wigan and Chorley, hundred of Leyland, N. division of Lancashire, 3¼ miles northwest by north from Wigan. The parish comprises the townships (and chapelries--see links) of Adlington, Anderton, Charnock-Richard, Coppull, Duxbury, Heath-Charnock, Shevington, Standish with Langtree, Welsh-Whittle, and Worthington. St Wilfrid Standish Parish church was built by at least 1560. At Adlington, Standish with Langtree and Coppull are other chapels.
At Standish Hall is a Roman Catholic chapel.[1]
Resources[edit | edit source]
Find Neighboring Parishes[edit | edit source]
Use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map
- Type the name of the parish in the search bar
- Click on the location pin on the map
- Choose Options from the pop up box
- Click "List Contiguous Parishes" to find the neighboring parishes
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.
Church Records[edit | edit source]
The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor.
Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.
Church of England[edit | edit source]
Chapelry is a church or churches built in a large ecclesiastical parish to help the members attend worship services closer to their homes.
Chapelries of Standish[edit | edit source]
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Online Parish Records Table
Due to the increasing access of online records:
- Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
- Dates in the following table are approximate
Hover over the collection's title for more information
| Standish Parish Records | ||||||
| All Chapelries Found in Standish are included in these links. | ||||||
| FamilySearch Collections-Lancashire | ||||||
| Parish Registers-Lancashire | ||||||
| Bishop's Transcripts - FamilySearch Catalog | ||||||
| FreeREG | ||||||
| Findmypast-Lancashire ($) | ||||||
| Ancestry-Church of England BMD-Lancashire ($) | ||||||
| Ancestry-England & Wales, Birth, Christening, Marriage and Death Indexes ($) | 1500s-1900s |
1500s-1900s |
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| Databases with Known Incomplete Parish Coverage | ||||||
| Boyd's Marriage Indexes-FMP (Free) | ||||||
| National Burial Index-FMP (Free) | ||||||
Other Websites
These databases have incomplete parish coverage.
- Joiner Marriage Index - Lancashire ($)
- The Genealogist Parish Registers - Lancashire ($)
- UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
- Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records
- OnLine Parish Clerks - Lancashire - OnLine Parish Clerks project for Lancashire
Non-Conformist Churches (All other Religions)[edit | edit source]
- 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at Findmypast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)
Census Records[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
Probate records
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Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Lancashire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.
Taxation[edit | edit source]
- 1628 - 1628 Subsidy of Standish and Langtre (p. 167)[2]
- 1628 - 1628 Subsidy of Duxburye and Addlington FamilySearch Digital Library (p. 167)[2]
- 1628 - 1628 Subsidy of Heathe Charnocke and Anderton FamilySearch Digital Library (p. 168)[2]
- 1628 - 1628 Subsidy of Shevington and Walch Whittle FamilySearch Digital Library (p. 168)[2]
- 1628 - 1628 Subsidy of Charnocke Richard FamilySearch Digital Library (p. 168)[2]
- 1665 - Lancashire Hearth Tax: Leyland Hundred, Standish. E 179/132/351, The National Archives. Microfilm: FHL Film 2228692. Includes Anderton, Blainsco, Charnock Richard, Coppull, Duxbury, Duxbury and Adlington, Heath Charnock, Langtree, Shevington, Welsh Whittle, and Worthington.
Maps and Gazetteers
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Websites[edit | edit source]
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References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis (1848), pp. 180-183;nbsp;Adapted. Date accessed: 18 November 2013.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 J.P. Earwaker, Three Lancashire Subsidy Rolls, viz., for the Hundred of Salford, 1541, the Hundred of Salford, 1622 and the Hundred of Leyland, 1628, Together with a Recusant Roll for the Hundred of Leyland, in 1628 (London: Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 1885). Digital version at FamilySearch Digital Library.