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

Parish History
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, Anderton, Charnock-Richard, , Duxbury, Heath-Charnock, Shevington, , 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.

Civil Registration
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.

Online Records

 * 1538 - 1910 at FamilySearch — index
 * 1603 - 1910 at FamilySearch — index and images

Standish was an ancient parish that included the district chapelries of Christ Church (1839) and St Paul's (1885) at Adlington. Standish parish registers have been transcribed and the data is now posted online at Lancashire Online Parish Clerk as follows:

Catholic

 * 1628 - 1628 List of Recusants in Standish and Langtree FamilySearch Digital Library (p. 176)
 * 1628 - 1628 List of Recusants in Duxburye and Adlington FamilySearch Digital Library (p. 177)
 * 1628 - 1628 List of Recusants in Heath Charnocke and Anderton FamilySearch Digital Library (p. 178)
 * 1628 - 1628 List of Recusants in Shevington and Walchwhittle FamilySearch Digital Library (p. 178)
 * 1628 - 1628 List of Recusants in Charnocke Richard FamilySearch Digital Library (p. 179)

Non Conformist Records

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

Probate records
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

 * 1628 - 1628 Subsidy of Standish and Langtre (p. 167)
 * 1628 - 1628 Subsidy of Duxburye and Addlington FamilySearch Digital Library (p. 167)
 * 1628 - 1628 Subsidy of Heathe Charnocke and Anderton FamilySearch Digital Library (p. 168)
 * 1628 - 1628 Subsidy of Shevington and Walch Whittle FamilySearch Digital Library (p. 168)
 * 1628 - 1628 Subsidy of Charnocke Richard FamilySearch Digital Library (p. 168)
 * 1665 - Lancashire Hearth Tax: Leyland Hundred, Standish. E 179/132/351, The National Archives. Microfilm: . 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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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain