Leyland, Lancashire Genealogy

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

Parish History
LEYLAND (St Andrew), a parish, in the union of Chorley, hundred of Leyland, N. division of the county of Lancaster; consisting of the chapelries of Euxton, Heapey, and Hoghton, and the townships of Clayton-le-Woods, Cuerden, Leyland, Wheelton, Whittlele-Woods, and Withnell. Leyland is 4½ miles northwest of Chorley. At Euxton, Heapey, Hoghton, Whittle-le-Woods, and Withnell are separate chapels. For other places in the parish see a List of Chapelries Within Leyland Parish. There are places of worship for Wesleyan Methodists, Independents, and Roman Catholics.

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 index of Lancashire Births, Marriages and Deaths Lancashire BMD

Lancashire Online Parish Clerks
An extremely useful resource for research in Lancashire Parishes http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/

Church records

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

Online Records

Leyland St Andrew's parish registers and those registers of all of its smaller chapelries lying within its boundaries have been mostly transcribed and are displayed online at the web sites below and for the following ranges of years:

Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the FamilySearch Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

Catholic

 * 1628 - 1628 List of Recusants in Laylande FamilySearch Digital Library (p. 180)
 * 1628 - 1628 List of Recusants in Cuerden FamilySearch Digital Library (p. 182)
 * 1628 - 1628 List of Recusants in Claytonn FamilySearch Digital Library (p. 182)
 * 1628 - 1628 List of Recusants in Wheeleton and Heapey FamilySearch Digital Library (p. 183)

Non Conformist Records

 * 1647-1996 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)

Poor Law Unions
Chorley Poor Law Union, Lancashire

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 Leylande FamilySearch Digital Library (p. 170)
 * 1628 - 1628 Subsidy of Wheeleton and Heapey FamilySearch Digital Library (p. 171)
 * 1628 - 1628 Subsidy of Cuerden FamilySearch Digital Library (p. 170)
 * 1665 - Lancashire Hearth Tax: Leyland Hundred, Clayton le Woods. E 179/132/351, The National Archives. Microfilm:.
 * 1665 - Lancashire Hearth Tax: Leyland Hundred, Leyland. E 179/132/351, The National Archives. Microfilm:.
 * 1665 - Lancashire Hearth Tax: Leyland Hundred, Wheelton. E 179/132/351, The National Archives. Microfilm:.

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