Burton Wood, Lancashire Genealogy

England Lancashire  Lancashire Parishes

Parish History
BURTONWOOD, a chapelry, in theparish and union of Warrington, hundred of West Derby, S. division of the county of Lancaster, 5 miles (N. W.) from Warrington.

Burton-Wood was created a chapel of ease in the parish of Warrington by 1668. The chapel is St. Michael.

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 Records
 Church of England 

Burtonwood chapelry's registers of christenings, marriages and burials, along with those of the ancient parish of Warrington St. Elphin to which it is attached, have been mostly transcribed and are displayed online at the following web sites and ranges of years:

For a full list of all those chapels surrounding Burtonwood and comprising the whole ancient parish of Warrington St. Elphin to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the WARRINGTON ST ELPHIN PARISH page.

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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
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