A Comprehensive List of Wigan Parishes and Chapelries

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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, and Winstanley, 51,988 inhabitants, of whom 25,517 are in the town, 18 miles (W. N. W.) from Manchester, and 199 (N. W. by N.) from London. From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 568-571.

Here is a list of Wigan parish churches and attached chapelries lying within its boundaries. To be thorough, be certain to search all of these churches and their church registers of baptisms, burials, and where extant, marriage registers for ancestry:

Wigan All Saints - 1550

Wigan St Catherine's - 1846

Wigan St George - 1814

Wigan St Thomas - 1848

Abram - 1838

Billinge - 1696

Hindley - 1644

Pemberton - 1832

Treals - 1858

Upholland - 1600