Angerton, Lancashire Genealogy

Guide to Angerton, Lancashire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
Angerton was an extra-parochial place, having its own jurisdiction, and lying next to Kirkby Ireleth Parish (which see), on Lancashire's coastal line.

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
Church of England
 * 1538 - 1910 at FamilySearch — index

Original Records

Census records
Family History Library only has census records for 1861, 1881, and 1891.

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

Websites
Angerton on GENUKI