Winwick, Lancashire Genealogy

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Guide to Winwick, Lancashire family history and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

View a List of Chapels in the Parish of Winwick.



Parish History
WINWICK St Oswald a parish, in the union of Warrington, hundred of West Derby, S. division of Lancashire; containing, with the township of Houghton with Middleton and Arbury, the township of Winwick with Hulme, 3 miles north from Warrington. The parish was, until lately, of great extent, and included the now distinct parishes of Ashton-in-Makerfield, St Thomas in Ashton, Croft with Southworth, Lowton, Newchurch, and Newton-in-Makerfield; all which, by acts of parliament passed in 1844 and 1845, were formed into separate parishes. Other places in the parish include: Arbury, Haydock, Houghton, Houghton, Middleton and Arbury, Winwick with Hulme, Kenyon, Middleton, Myddleton, Risley, and Hulme.

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/

Online Records
Winwick St Oswald 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 web sites and ranges of years:

Winwick Parish held very extensive boundaries, reaching into Newton in Makerfield, Ashton in Makerfield, along with several other townships. In 1845 The Winwick Rectory Act was passed dividing the old Parish of Winwick St Oswald into at least nine new parishes including Winwick St Oswald, Croft with Southworth, Newton-in-Makerfield Emmanuel, Newton St Peter, Newchurch in Culcheth, Golborne, Lowton, Ashton-in-Makerfield, and Ashton St Thomas. It was enacted that the Parish and Rectory of Ashton-in-Makerfield should comprise the whole of the township of Ashton-in-Makerfield "except that part which is called the Town End", and that the Town End, together with the whole of the township of Haydock should form the Parish and Vicarage of Ashton St Thomas.

Original Records
For original registers of above please enquire at Cheshire Record Office.

The Manchester Room and Greater Manchester County Record Office Email: archiveslocalstudies@manchester.gov.uk

The Manchester Room@City Library (Local Studies)

Parish registers of Winwick, 1563-1909 Microfilm copy of original record in the Cheshire Record Office, Chester, England. Cheshire Record Office no.: P158/1/1-8, P158/2988/1-2, P158/2/1-9, P158/2988/3/1-2, P158/3/1-2, P158/4296/1.

Winwick- St Oswald  Baptisms Transcript-1563-1660- 929.3272 Wi1 Baptisms Transcript-1661-1756- 929.3272 Wi1 or MFE 929.342719 Wi4 Baptisms Transcript-1756-1808- 929.3272 Wi1 Burials Transcript-1563-1661- 929.3272 Wi1 Burials Transcript-1661-1756- 929.3272 Wi1 or MFE 929.342719 Wi4 Burials Transcript-1756-1837- 929.3272 Wi1 or MFE 929.342719 Wi4 Marriages Transcript-1600-1660- 929.3272 Wi1 Marriages Transcript-1661-1754- 929.3272 Wi1 or MFE 929.342719 Wi4 Marriages Transcript-1754-1812- 929.3272 Wi1 or MFE 929.342719 Wi(080)

FamilySearch Records

In addition, microfilmed copies are available at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A. and its 4,600 satellite FamilySearch.Centers worldwide.

Below is a list indicating the ranges of years of avilability and the microfilm numbers for ordering to the FamilySearch Centers:

Bishop's transcripts for Winwick, 1600-1890 Microfilm of original records at the Lancashire Record Office, Preston. Includes records of Ashton, Newchurch, Newton, Lowton and Croft. Ashton, Newchurch, Newton, Lowton, Croft are in the parish of Winwick.

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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