Croft with Southworth, Lancashire Genealogy

England Lancashire  Lancashire Parishes

Parish History
"CROFT, with Southworth (Christ Church), is a parish in the union of Warrington, hundred of West Derby, S. division of the county of Lancaster, 5 miles north by northeast of Warrington. There were places of worship for Unitarians and Methodists as well as a Roman Catholic chapel.

Croft With Southworth was created a parish by the mid-19th century, by act of Parliament.

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.

Church records
Online Records

Croft-with-Southworth Christ Church Parish has online content available as follows:

[FS = FamilySearch.org;LOPC = Lancashire Online Parish Clerk project; AC = Ancestry.co.uk]

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.

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