Golborne, Lancashire Genealogy

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Chapelry History
Golborne St Thomas was created a district chapelry in 1850 and lay within the boundaries of Lowton, Lancashire Ecclesiastical Parish.

GOLBORNE, a township, in the parish of Lowton, union of Leigh, hundred of West Derby, S. division of Lancashire, 2 miles (N. N. E.) from Newton-in-Makerfield; containing 1657 inhabitants. A family of the local name possessed lands here in the reign of Henry III., and subsequently the manor was held by various families, among whom were the Fleetwoods and Leghs: Thomas Legh, Esq., is now the principal landowner. The township comprises 1570 acres, of which 325 are arable, and nearly all the remainder pasture; the surface is gently undulated, and the soil half clay and half clay-loam. Coal exists; and there is a large and a smaller cotton-mill, affording employment to many of the population. Golborne Hall is occupied by Nathan Newbould, Esq. By a private act passed in 1845 to amend a private act in 1841, it is provided that if a church be built in Golborne, the place is to become a separate parish and rectory. The tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of £158, payable to the rector of Winwick. The Independents have a place of worship. A school, with a house for the master, was built in 1791, by William Street and others, who endowed it with the interest of £120, for which six children of the township are taught.—See Lowton.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis (1848), pp. 312-315. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50984 Date accessed: 01 July 2010.

Civil Registration
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Lancashire Online Parish Clerks
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Church records
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Bishop's transcripts for Golborne and Lowton Microfilm of original records at the Lancashire Record Office, Preston.

Census records
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Poor Law Unions
Leigh, Lancashire Poor Law Union

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.

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