Aughton, Lancashire Genealogy

England Lancashire  Lancashire Parishes



Parish History
Aughton St Michael is an Ancient Parish in the county of Lancashire.

There is evidence of a Saxon Cross from the 850 Ad Saxon church on the site and the earliest parts of the building show that an established stone church was present by the 12th century.

Aughton is a village and civil parish within the West Lancashire district of Lancashire, England, situated between Ormskirk in Lancashire and Maghull in Merseyside. The northern part is known as Aughton village, the south-west as Holt Green and the south-east as Town Green. John Grindrod 1919-2009, Anglican Primate of Australia, was born in Aughton on 14 December 1919.

"AUGHTON, a parish and a subdistrict in the district of Ormskirk, Lancashire. There was a Roman Catholic church here."

This parish is one of the very few in Lancashire where there are no known chapels of ease or chapelries of the Church of England attached to or found within the boundaries of this ancient parish prior to 1870.

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

There is much online content for Ashton under Lyne St Michael's Parish and its several attached churches, called chapelries, including baptisms, marriages and some burial. These records include vital content from the following chapels and the (St Michael's) parish:

[Note: FS = FamilySearch.org; LOPC = Lancashire Online Parish Clerk; AC = Ancestry.Co.uk]

Census records
http://www.1881pubs.com/ for details of public houses in the 1881 census

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


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
http://www.aughtonstmichael.org.uk/index.html Church Website includes history of the church (PDF)