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.

Church records
Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

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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