Wigan St Catherine, Lancashire Genealogy

Guide to Wigan St Catherine, Lancashire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: chapel register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Chapelry History
St Catherine Wigan, was a created a chapel of ease in the year 1841 and lay within the civil parish boundaries of All Saints Wigan.

WIGAN, a parish, borough, and market town, which has separate jurisdiction, and the head of a union, chiefly in the hundred of West Derby, S. division of the county of Lancaster;containing, with the chapelries of Abram, Billinge, Haigh,Hindley, Pemberton, and Up Holland, and the townships of Aspull, Billinge HigherEnd, Dalton, Ince-in-Makerfield,and Orrell.

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

 Church of England 

Wigan St Catherine chapelry's registers of christenings, marriages and burials, along with those of the ancient parish of Wigan All Saints to which it is attached, have been mostly transcribed and are displayed online at the following websites and ranges of years:

For a full list of all those chapels surrounding Wigan St Catherine and comprising the whole ancient parish of Wigan All Saints to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the WIGAN ALL SAINTS PARISH page.

Non Conformist Records

 * 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