A Comprehensive List of Kirkham Parishes and Chapelries

KIRKHAM (St. Michael), a market-town and parish, in the union of the Fylde, hundred of Amounderness, N. division of the county of Lancaster; containing 11,604 inhabitants, of whom 2903 are in the town, 9 miles (W. by N.) from Preston, 22 (S. by W.) from Lancaster, and 226 (N. W. by N.) from London. From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 697-701.

Here is a list of all Kirkham (parish) chapelries lying within Kirkham's civil parish boundaries; these chapelries were normally smaller church units which kept registers of baptisms, marriages (some) and burials:

Kirkham St Michael - 1539

Barton - 1850 - which lies partly in Preston, Garstang and Lancaster parishes, as well as in Kirkham Parish.

Copp - 1771

Hambleton -1695

Goosnargh - 1639

Great &amp; Little Singleton - 1841

Lund - 1840

Ribby upon Wrea - 1847

Warton - 1848 - the Bishop's transcripts for the years 1733 to 1847 are missing; the whereabouts of the parish registers preceding 1848 are not known.

Weeton - 1850 - marriages only

Whitechapel - 1819