Ashton in Makerfield, Lancashire Genealogy

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

Parish History
ASHTON-IN-MAKERFIELD, or Ashton-le-Willows, is a township, in the union of Wigan, hundred of West Derby, S. division of the county of Lancaster, 5 miles (S.) from Wigan, and 7 miles (N. N. W.)from Warrington. The township was until lately, with Haydock, a chapelry in the parish of Winwick. By an act of parliament for the division of Winwick, passed in 1845, the Brynn-End and the Garswood-End were made a separate parish, called the rectory of Ashton; the Town-End was annexed to the adjoining township of Haydock, and the two places formed into another and distinct parish, called the vicarage of St. Thomas (the Apostle) in Ashton. The Independents, Quakers, Unitarians,and Roman Catholics have places of worship.

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Civil Registration
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Church Records
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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.

Chapelries of Ashton in Makerfield
Online Parish Records Table

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 * Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
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 * 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)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at Findmypast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)
 * 1647-1996 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)

Genealogy
Hart of Anderton, Ashton-inMakerfield and Hindley. by Swain, Margaret. Family History and Pedigree chart of James Hart and Ellen Roscoe-Kirkham, dating from 1640-1942. Other surnames listed, Mortland, Low, Green, Doodson, Glover, Rigby, Kerfoot, Jones, Bridge, Poole, Baxter, Lawton, Martin, Swain, Faber, Miller, Cripwell, Sorg. Article in Lancashire Family History and Heraldry Soc. magazine, vol. 7 no.3. pages 18-29. FHL Ref. 942.72 B2r

Poor Law Unions
Wigan 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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Websites
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