Great Eccleston, Lancashire Genealogy

England Lancashire  Lancashire Parishes

Guide to Great Eccleston, Lancashire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: chapelry register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Chapelry History
GREAT ECCLESTON, or Copp Chapell, is a township in the parish of St. Michael upon Wyre, union of Garstang, hundred of Amounderness, N. division of the county of Lancaster, 7 miles southwest of Garstang. The ecclesiastical district of Eccleston includes also Little Eccleston, Larbrick, and Elswick. The church, dedicated to St. Ann, stands on Copp Hill; it was built in 1723. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists, and a Roman Catholic chapel.


 * COPP is a chapelry in-Michael-on-Wyre and Kirk. It is adjacent to the Preston and Lancashire railway, 3 miles SSE of Garstang. It was constituted in 1849; and its post-town is Garstang. Pop., 1,140. Houses, 247. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £190.* Patron, the Vicar of St. Michael-on-Wyre.


 * Great Eccleston is a township and Copp is a chapelry in Great Eccleston; these two places share the same records.

Here is an excellent old publication about this chapel and parish history, entitled The History of the Parish of St. Michaels-on-Wyre in the County of Lancaster, that is available on Google Books for free.

Churches in the parish

 * St Mary, Hall Lane, Great Eccleston (Roman Catholic) - founded 1771
 * Chapel Street Wesleyan Methodist - founded before 1847 now closed and developed as private housing
 * Baptist Church, High Street - founded 1870 closed Twentieth Century site now developed as residential accommodation
 * Hall Lane Methodist Church - built 1970

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

 * 1538 - 1910 at FamilySearch — index
 * 1603 - 1910 at FamilySearch — index and images

Church of England
Great Eccleston chapelry's registers of christenings, marriages and burials, along with those of the ancient parish of St Michael on Wyre 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 Great Eccleston and comprising the whole ancient parish of St Michael on Wyre to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the ST MICHAEL ON WYRE PARISH page.

Non-Conformist Churches

 * 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)

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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites

 * Copp on GENUKI
 * Great Eccleston on GENUKI