Wigan All Saints, Lancashire Genealogy
England Lancashire
Lancashire Parishes
Guide to Wigan All Saints, Lancashire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: chapelry register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records. See a List of Wigan Chapelries.
Wigan All Saints, Lancashire | |
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Type | England Jurisdictions |
Civil Jurisdictions | |
Hundred | West Derby |
County | Lancashire, England Genealogy |
Poor Law Union | Wigan |
Registration District | Wigan |
Records begin | |
Parish registers: 1580; Separate registers exist for Abram beginning 1838 | |
Bishop's Transcripts: 1600 | |
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
Rural Deanery | Wigan |
Diocese | Chester |
Legal Jurisdictions | |
Probate Court | Court of the Bishop of Chester (Episcopal Consistory) |
Location of Archive | |
Lancashire Archives | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
WIGAN (All Saints),a parish, borough, and market town, which has separate jurisdiction, and the head of a union, chiefly in the hundred of West Derby, S. division of the county of Lancaster; containing, with the chapelries of Abram, Billinge, Haigh, Hindley, Pemberton, and Up Holland, and the townships of Aspull, Billinge Higher End, Dalton, Ince-in-Makerfield, Orrell, 18 miles west by northwest of Manchester. Wigan (St George's) church, in the town, was erected as a chapel of ease, in 1781. St. Catherine's church, at Scholes, of which the first stone was laid on the 6th April 1840. Both these churches have districts assigned to them. Wigan St Thomas's church, in the Queen-street, was erected in 1848. At Abram, Billinge, Haigh, Hindley, Holland, and Pemberton are also other chapels of the Church of the Church of England. In the town are places of worship for Baptists and Independents, a handsome meeting-house for Wesleyans, and a Scottish church. The Roman Catholics have two chapels; St Mary's, and St John's, built in 1819. In Scholes is St Patrick's Roman Catholic chapel.[1]
Resources[edit | edit source]
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]
- 1538 - 1910 England, Lancashire, Parish Registers 1538-1910 at FamilySearch — index
Online Records
Wigan All Saints parish registers and those registers of all of its smaller chapelries lying within its boundaries have been mostly transcribed and are displayed online at the following websites and ranges of years:
AC = Ancestry.co.uk (£) | |||||
AC = Ancestry.co.uk (£) | |||||
FMP = findmypast (£) | |||||
FREG = FreeReg | |||||
FS = FamilySearch.org | |||||
LBMD = LancashireBMD.org.uk | |||||
LOPC = Lancashire Online Parish Clerk |
The ancient parish of Wigan All Saints has numerous additional chapelries including Abram subdividing its boundaries, which see.
WIGAN ALL SAINTS PARISH (1578) Indexes | |||||
Baptisms | Marriages | Burials | |||
AC | 1580-1812 | 1580-1812 | 1580-1812 | ||
FS | 1578-1926 | 1594-1880 | 1749-1952 | ||
LOPC | 1813-1842, 1844, 1861-1869, 1879-1896 | 1594-1625, 1754-1898 | 1754-1904 | ||
LBMD | 1837-1950 | 1837-1950 | 1837-1951 | ||
FMP | None | 1594-1837 | None | ||
AC | 1580-1625 |
1580-1625 |
1580-1625 | ||
FREG | 1580-1588, 1590-1625 | 1594-1625 | 1584-1597, 1600-1626 | ||
WIGAN ST ANDREW Chapelry (1871) Indexes | |||||
Baptisms | Marriages | Burials | |||
FS | 1871-1901 | 1883-1917 | None | ||
LOPC | None | None | None | ||
LBMD | None | 1883-1950 | None | ||
WIGAN ST GEORGE Chapelry (1854) Indexes | |||||
Baptisms | Marriages | Burials | |||
FS | None | 1861-1885 | None | ||
LOPC | None | 1854-1885 | None | ||
LBMD | None | 1854-1950 | None | ||
WIGAN ST CATHERINE Chapelry (1841) Indexes | |||||
Baptisms | Marriages | Burials | |||
FS | 1841-1893 | 1862-1869 | None | ||
LOPC | 1841-1860, 1878-1893 | 1854-1956 | 1841-1908 | ||
LBMD | None | 1841-1950 | None | ||
WIGAN ST GEORGE Chapelry (1854) Indexes | |||||
Baptisms | Marriages | Burials | |||
FS | None | 1861-1885 | None | ||
LOPC | None | 1854-1885 | None | ||
LBMD | None | 1854-1950 | None | ||
WIGAN ST MICHAEL ALL ANGEL Chapelry (1878) Indexes | |||||
Baptisms | Marriages | Burials | |||
FS | None | None | |||
LOPC | 1878-1946 | 1881-1921 | None | ||
LBMD | None | 1878-1950 | None | ||
WIGAN ST THOMAS Chapelry (1852) Indexes | |||||
Baptisms | Marriages | Burials | |||
FS | None | ||||
LOPC | |||||
LBMD | None | 1852-1950 | None | ||
ABRAM ST JOHN Chapelry (1838) Indexes | |||||
Baptisms | Marriages | Burials | |||
FS | 1838-1901 | 1856-1901 | 1839-1901 | ||
LOPC | 1838-1911 | 1854-1911 | 1839-1911 | ||
LBMD | None | 1854-1950 | None | ||
BILLINGE ST AIDAN Chapelry (1696) Indexes | |||||
Baptisms | Marriages | Burials | |||
FS | 1696-1857 | 1762-1857 | None | ||
LOPC | 1696-1899 | 1699-1709, 1722-1922 | 1699-1714, 1721-1872, 1899-1936 | ||
LBMD | 1904-1918 | None | 1904-1918 | ||
AC | 1696-1812 | 1696-1812 | 1696-1812 | ||
HAIGH ST DAVID Chapelry (1833) Indexes | |||||
Baptisms | Marriages | Burials | |||
FS | None | None | None | ||
LOPC | 1833-1912 | 1834-1936 | 1834-1915 | ||
LBMD | None | 1837-1951 | None | ||
HINDLEY ALL SAINTS Chapelry (1698) Indexes | |||||
Baptisms | Marriages | Burials | |||
FS | 1698-1879 | 1698-1881 | None | ||
LOPC | 1698-1915 | 1698-1946 | 1698-1948 | ||
LBMD | 1837-1950 | 1837-1950 | 1837-1951 | ||
PEMBERTON ST JOHN THE DIVINE Chapelry (1832) Indexes | |||||
Baptisms | Marriages | Burials | |||
FS | 1838-1901 | 1835-1900 | 1855-1901 | ||
LOPC | 1832-1901 | 1835-1900 | 1832-1901 | ||
LBMD | 1837-1921 | 1837-1950 | 1837-1922 | ||
POOLSTOCK ST JAMES Chapelry (1863) Indexes | |||||
FS | None | None | None | ||
LOPC | 1864-1945 | 1866-1949 | |||
LBMD | |||||
SCHOLES ST CATHERINE Chapelry (1841) Indexes | |||||
Baptisms | Marriages | Burials | |||
FS | None | 1861-1885 | None | ||
LOPC | 1841-1893 | 1841-1889 | 1854-1916 | ||
LBMD | None | None | None | ||
UPHOLLAND ST THOMAS Chapelry (1600) Indexes | |||||
Baptisms | Marriages | Burials | |||
FS | 1604-1900 | 1600-1896 | None | ||
LOPC | None | None | None | ||
LBMD | 1837-1904 | 1837-1950 | 1837-1904 |
Original Records[edit | edit source]
The Lancashire Record Office at Bow Lane, Preston PR2 1RE, holds the original parish registers in its vast collections. Contact their website for contact information.
The Family History Library has microfilmed the parish registers and Bishop's transcripts of Wigan parish for the years 1578-1900. These films are available for ordering/circulating and researching at any one of its satellite FamilySearch Centers worldwide.
Non Conformist Records[edit | edit source]
- 1647-1996 England, Lancashire Non-conformist Church Records, 1647-1996 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)
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.
Genealogy[edit | edit source]
In Search of James Bethell. History and family tree of Thomas Bethell (Bithill) and Mary Sumner, dating from 1758-1878, other surnames included; Parr, Smedley, Hervey, Green, Lees, Pigby, to be found in The Lancashire Family History And Heraldry Society magazine. vol.13 no. 4, pages 31-36, FHL Ref. 942.72 B2r
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]
Maps and Gazetteers
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Websites[edit | edit source]
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References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 568-571. Adapted. Date accessed: 08 October 2013.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 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.