Longton, Lancashire Genealogy

Guide to Longton, Lancashire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: chapelry register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Chapelry History
LONGTON, was created a chapel of ease from, and lying within the boundaries of 1719 from chapelry in Penwortham, union of Preston, hundred of Leyland, N. division of Lancashire, 5 miles (S. W. by W.) from Preston. The Parish Church, St. Andrew's was completed in 1887 when the previous chapel of 1772 which stood nearer the main road was demolished. This stood on the site of an earlier chapel, the records of which are lost. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.

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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
The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor. Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

Church of England
Chapelry is a church or churches built in a large ecclesiastical parish to help the members attend worship services closer to their homes.

Online Parish Records Table

Due to the increasing access of online records: Hover over the collection's title for more information Other Websites These databases have incomplete parish coverage.
 * Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
 * Dates in the following table are approximate
 * Joiner Marriage Index - Lancashire ($)
 * The Genealogist Parish Registers - Lancashire ($)
 * UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records
 * OnLine Parish Clerks - Lancashire - OnLine Parish Clerks project for Lancashire

Non-Conformist Churches (All other Religions)

 * 1647-1996 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)

Genealogy
Barlow, Angela. A Lancashire Family. History and family history charts of Ralph Loxham and his first wife Margery, and second wife Jane 1622, and William Loxham and his wife Margaret Howthe 1638. of Longton and Preston. Other surnames Wilding, Sharples, Brewer, Jenkins, Gregson, Lawe, Sherdley, Eccleston, Johnson, Bannister, Rigby, Thompson, Proctor, Holland, Norris, Atherton, Sherdley, Walton, Premberlon, Critchley, Haylock, Whitehead Sidebottom, Farrer, Clayton, Willis, Fielden, Farrer. The Lancashire Family History and Heraldry Soc. magazine vol. 10.no.1, pages 25-35, FHL Ref 942.72 B2r

Poor Law Unions
Preston 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.

Taxation

 * 1628 - 1628 Subsidy of Longton (p. 169)


 * 1665 - Lancashire Hearth Tax: Leyland Hundred, Longton. E 179/132/351, The National Archives. Microfilm:.

Maps and Gazetteers
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