Hale, Lancashire Genealogy

England Lancashire  Lancashire Parishes

Chapelry History
HALE, a chapelry,in the parish of Childwall, union of Prescot, hundred of West Derby, S. division of Lancashire, 11½ miles west by southwest of Warrington. The chapel, dedicated to St. Mary, was built by 1572.

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 

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

Genealogy
Bell, Kathleen. Who Was Mary Pomfrey. A discussion of the family of Peter Pomfrey and Mary Yates married in 1846 at Hale Village. Mary also married Will Hughes in 1854. Article covers years 1841-1977. Article in magazine, Hel Achau, #11, Winter 1983, pages 21-22. Family History Library Ref. 942.93 D25h

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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