Adlington, Lancashire Genealogy

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Adlington

Guide to Adlington, Lancashire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: chapelry register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Adlington, Lancashire
Type	Ecclesiastical Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
Hundred	Leyland
County	Lancashire, England Genealogy
Poor Law Union	Chorley
Registration District	Chorley
Records begin
Parish registers: 1839
Bishop's Transcripts: 1839
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery	Leyland
Diocese	Manchester
Province	York
Legal Jurisdictions
Probate Court	Court of the Bishop of Chester (Episcopal Consistory)
Location of Archive
Lancashire Archives

Parish History

ADLINGTON, a township with a chapelry, in the parish of Standish, in the union of Chorley, hundred of Leyland, N. division of the county of Lancaster, 4 miles (N.) from Wigan. The townships of Adlington, Anderton, Duxbury, and Heath-Charnock, in the parish, form a district chapelry; and a church, a neat structure in the Norman style, has been erected by Her Majesty's Commissioners.

Records

Census

The following two web sites provide online data at no cost, which covers Adlington chapelry for 1881 and the 1901 censuses:

1881 - FamilySearch

1901 - 1901CensusOnline

Lancashire census records have been indexed and transcribed countywide, and made available online by the following subscription web sites for the census years, 1841-1911:

• Ancestry.co.uk
• findmypast.com
• TheGenealogist.co.uk

Church records

• 1538 - 1910 England, Lancashire, Parish Registers 1538-1910 at FamilySearch — index
• 1603 - 1910 England, Lancashire, Cheshire, Yorkshire, Parish Registers, 1603-1910 at FamilySearch — index and images

Online Records

Adlington chapelry registers, along with those of the ancient parish of Standish to which it is attached, have been transcribed to a considerable extent, and are available online at the following websites^_:

FS =FamilySearch.org

LOPC = Lancashire Online Parish Clerk

FMP =  findmypast

LBMD = Lancashire BMD

AC = Ancestry.co.uk

GLUK = GenealogyLinks

UKGEN = UKGenealogy

Here are the online transcriptions and indexes by chapelry and ranges of years:

ADLINGTON CHRIST CHURCH Chapelry  (1837) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	1839-1846	1843-1900	1839-1900
LOPC	1839-1900	1843-1886	1839-1900
LBMD	1837-1959	1934-1975	1837-1959
ADLINGTON ST PAUL Chapelry  (1843) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	None	None	None
LOPC	1885-1900	1886-1900	None
LBMD	None	1843-1975	None
STANDISH ST WILFRID PARISH (1560) Indexes (ancient parish containing ADLINGTON chapelries)
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	1560-1656	1560-1656
LOPC	1653-1900	1653-1900	1653-1900
LBMD	1837-1950	1837-1950	1837-1953
FMP	None	1558-1837	None
AC	1560-1653	1560-1653	1560-1653
GLUK	1654-1840	1653-1840	1653-1840
UKGEN	1560-1653	1560-1653	1560-1653

For a full list of all those chapels surrounding Adlington and comprising the whole ancient parish of Standish to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the STANDISH PARISH page.

Catholic

• 1628 - FamilySearch Digital Library List of Recusants in Duxburye and Adlington (p. 173)

Non-Conformist Churches

• 1647-1996 England, Lancashire Non-conformist Church Records, 1647-1996 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)

Civil Registration of Births, Marriages & Deaths - 1837 to the Present

Learn key information about England Civil Registration (vital records) of birth, marriages and deaths on the England main page.

Online Indexes

There are two separate (free) indexes available for Lancashire civil registration of births, marriages and deaths. One index covers all registrations nation-wide, and one index covers the copies of the local registration district office's certificate copies for all registration districts throughout Lancashire, as follows:

• FreeBMD - an online (free) index to the certificates held at the General Registrar's Office, formerly in London, now in Solihull, Merseyside, UK. The years currently covered in this index include July, 1837 to at least 1940.
• LancashireBMD - an online index (free) to the local superintendant's registrar of births, marriages and deaths for all registration districts throughout Lancashire, for the following range of years and their events:  births 1837-1974; marriages 1837-2010; deaths 1837-1975.
• Lancashire-OPC.org.uk provides numerous parish and chapel transcriptions online (free) for the post-1837 to 1910 period, including some marriages which are replicas of those marriage certificates kept by the General Registrar's Office and local Registration District Offices throughout the country.

Other Indexes

FamilySearch's Family History Library British collections holds the quarterly indexes of births, marriages and deaths from July, 1837 to 1983 in microform media.

Genealogy

Hart of Anderton, Ashton-in-Makerfield and Hindley by Swain, Margaret.  History and Pedigree chart of James Hart and Ellen Roscoe-Kirkham dating from 1640-1942. Other surnames listed Mortland, Low, Green, Doodson, Glover, Rigby, Kerfoot, Jones, Bridge, Poole, Baxter, Laston, Marton, Swain, Faber, Miller, Cripwell, Sorg. Article to be found in Lancashire Family History & Heraldry Soc. Magazine Vol. 7, no.3. pages 18-29. FHL Ref. 942.72 B2r

Poor Law Unions

Chorley Poor Law Union, Lancashire

Probate

Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. To search indexes and original probate records, go to the Lancashire Probate Records and follow the steps to find possible wills for ancestors in Lancashire.

Taxation

• 1628 - FamilySearch Digital Library Subsidy of Duxburye and Addlington}} (p. 167)

Maps and Gazetteers

Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.

• England Jurisdictions 1851
• OldMapsOnline
• Vision of Britain

Websites

[1] Adlington on GENUKI

Family History Library