Standish, Lancashire Genealogy

Guide to Standish, Lancashire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records. See a List of Chapelries in the Parish of Standish

Parish History
STANDISH St Wilfrid, a parish, in the unions of Wigan and Chorley, hundred of Leyland, N. division of Lancashire, 3¼ miles northwest by north from Wigan. The parish comprises the townships (and chapelries--see links) of, Anderton, Charnock-Richard, , Duxbury, Heath-Charnock, Shevington, , Welsh-Whittle, and Worthington. St Wilfrid Standish Parish church was built by at least 1560. At Adlington, Standish with Langtree and Coppull are other chapels.

At Standish Hall is a Roman Catholic chapel.

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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
The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor. Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

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 Standish
Online Parish Records Table

Due to the increasing access of online records: Hover over the collection's title for more information Other Websites These databases have incomplete parish coverage.
 * Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
 * Dates in the following table are approximate
 * 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)

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.

Taxation

 * 1628 - 1628 Subsidy of Standish and Langtre (p. 167)
 * 1628 - 1628 Subsidy of Duxburye and Addlington FamilySearch Digital Library (p. 167)
 * 1628 - 1628 Subsidy of Heathe Charnocke and Anderton FamilySearch Digital Library (p. 168)
 * 1628 - 1628 Subsidy of Shevington and Walch Whittle FamilySearch Digital Library (p. 168)
 * 1628 - 1628 Subsidy of Charnocke Richard FamilySearch Digital Library (p. 168)
 * 1665 - Lancashire Hearth Tax: Leyland Hundred, Standish. E 179/132/351, The National Archives. Microfilm: . Includes Anderton, Blainsco, Charnock Richard, Coppull, Duxbury, Duxbury and Adlington, Heath Charnock, Langtree, Shevington, Welsh Whittle, and Worthington.

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain