Preston St Paul, Lancashire Genealogy

England Lancashire Lancashire Parishes

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

Preston St Paul, Lancashire
Type	Ecclesiastical Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
Hundred	Amounderness
County	Lancashire
Poor Law Union	Preston
Registration District	Preston
Records begin
Parish registers: 1860
Bishop's Transcripts: 1867
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery	Amounderness
Diocese	Manchester
Province	York
Legal Jurisdictions
Probate Court	Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Commissary of the Archdeaconry of Richmond Western Deaneries - Amounderness
Location of Archive
Lancashire Record Office

Chapel History

Preston St Paul, St Paul's Square was created a district chapel by 1823 from Preston St John Ancient Parish.

The first stone of St. Paul's Church was laid on Tuesday, 21st October, 1823. It was one of two churches ( the other Preston St Peter, Lancashire) funded by money secured from parliament by the Bishop of Chester. Originally intended to build St Peter, petitioned by the Vicar of Preston who saw the need for two parishes. The church closed in the 1990's.

Resources

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 index of Lancashire Births, Marriages and Deaths Lancashire BMD

Lancashire Online Parish Clerks

An extremely useful resource for research in Lancashire Parishes http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/

Church records

Online 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

Church of England

Preston St Paul chapelry's registers of christenings, marriages and burials, along with those of the ancient parish of Preston St John to which it is attached, have been mostly transcribed and are displayed online at the following websites and ranges of years:

FS = FamilySearch.org

LOPC = Lancashire Online Parish Clerk project

FMP = findmypast

LBMD = LancashireBMD.org.uk

AC = Ancestry.co.uk

FREG = FreeReg

PRESTON ST PAUL Chapelry  (1864) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	None	None	None
LOPC	None	None	None
LBMD		1864-1974
PRESTON ST JOHN PARISH (1609) Indexes (ancient parish containing PRESTON ST PAUL Chapelry)
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	1611-1635, 1732, 1767-1792, 1795-1900	1611-1631, 1654-1704, 1729-1906	1731-1732, 1763-1792, 1795-1946
LOPC	1753-1770, 1776-1825, 1828-1861, 1863-1932	1611-1635, 1726-1839, 1841-1847, 1868-1902	1753-1770, 1775-1792, 1795-1827, 1858-1861, 1864-1872
LBMD		1837-1990	1878-1903
FMP	None	1609-1837	None
AC	1611-1635	1611-1635	1611-1635

For a full list of all those chapels surrounding Preston St Paul and comprising the whole ancient parish of Preston St John to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the PRESTON ST JOHN PARISH page.

Census records

Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.

Poor Law Unions

Preston Poor Law Union, Lancashire

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.

Maps and Gazetteers

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• England Jurisdictions 1851
• Vision of Britain