Golborne, Lancashire Genealogy

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

Chapelry History
GOLBORNE, a township, in the parish of Lowton,union of Leigh, hundred of West Derby, S. division of Lancashire, 2 miles (N. N. E.) from Newton-in Makerfield. By a private act passed in 1845 to amend a private act in 1841, it is provided that if a church be built in Golborne, the place is to become a separate parish and rectory. The Independents have a place of worship.

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
 * 1538 - 1910 at FamilySearch — index

Golborne Parish was created a parish in the year 1845 by an act of Parliament, and prior to that year was united with Winwick St Oswald Parish. Winwick St Oswald Parish held parochial jurisdiction over at least 8 chapelries and townships which were then created parishes under the same act. These eight chapelries included: Ashton in Makerfield Holy Trinity, Ashton St Thomas, Croft with Southworth, Golborne, Lowton St Luke, Newton-in-Makerfield Emmanuel, Newton St Peter, and Newchurch in Culcheth.

Online Records
 Church of England 

Golborne chapelry's registers of christenings, marriages and burials, along with those of the ancient parish of Lowton 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 Golborne and comprising the whole ancient parish of Lowton to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the LOWTON PARISH page.

Original Records

Bishop's transcripts for Golborne and Lowton Microfilm of original records at the Lancashire Record Office, Preston. The following microfilm for Golborne is available through the Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT, USA and its 4,600 satellite FamilySearch Centres worldwide:

Non Conformist Records

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

Poor Law Unions
Leigh, Lancashire Poor Law Union

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
 * Vision of Britain