Warrington St Elphin, Lancashire Genealogy

Guide to Warrington St Elphin, Lancashire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records. See A Comprehensive List of Warrington Chapelries

Parish History
WARRINGTON (St. Helen), a borough, market town, and parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of West Derby, S. division of the county of Lancaster; the parish containing, with the chapelry of Burtonwood, and the townships of Poulton with Fearnhead, Rixton with Glazebrook, and Woolston with Martinscroft. The ancient church, dedicated to St. Elfin, was of Saxon origin, and existed at the time of the Conquest: of this there are no remains. The site is occupied by the present church, dedicated to St. Helen, a spacious cruciform structure, of various styles, with a central tower, which, with the piers and arches supporting it, and the chancel, are the oldest parts, and a fine specimen of the decorated English style. There are places of worship for Baptists, the Society of Friends, the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion, Independents, Wesleyans, Independent Methodists, Unitarians, and Roman Catholics. Other places in the parish include: Bank Quay, Woolstone with Martinscroft, Glazebrook, Howley, Little Sankey, Martinscroft, Orford, Poulton and Fearnhead, Poulton with Fearnhead, Rixton, Rixton and Glazebrook, Rixton with Glazebrook, Woolston, Woolston and Martinscroft, Woolston with Martinscroft, and Fearnhead.

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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 Warrington St Elphin
Online Parish Records Table

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 * OnLine Parish Clerks - Lancashire - OnLine Parish Clerks project for Lancashire

Genealogy
Higman, Julian. Touchet of Warrington, Manchester and London. History and family tree of Richard and ? Touchet with the following surnames. Gandy, Dainteth, Bayley, Hallows, Grier, Adair, Greaves, Rasbothom, Wilkinson, Rigby, Harrison, Ford, James, Colquitte, Bayley, Elgie, Gardiner, Harrington, Ridley, dating from 1669-1881. Article in The Lancashire Family History and Heraldry Soc. magazine. vol.9. no.1. pages 20-32. FHL 942.72 B2r

Poor Law Unions
Warrington Poor Law Union, Lancashire This page also includes details of Warrington Rate Books and Valuation Lists 1846-1885 for Warrrington

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.

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