Standish, Lancashire Genealogy

England Lancashire  Lancashire Parishes

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.

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
Standish was an ancient parish with the district chapelry with Christ Church (1839) chapel at Adlington and a later district chapel called St Paul's Adlington built by 1885. Standish parish registers have been transcribed and the data is now posted online at Lancashire Online Parish Clerk as follows:

[Note: Transcribed/indexed data is found at FamilySearch = FS; and at Lancashire Online Parish Clerk = LOPC}:

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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