Hesketh with Becconsall, Lancashire Genealogy

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Parish History
Hesketh with Becconsall is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Lancashire, created by 1745, lying within the boundaries of Croston, Lancashire Ancient Parish. Other places in the parish include: Hesketh Bank and Becconsall.

Hesketh Bank is a small agricultural village in Lancashire. It lies to the north-east of the town of Southport on the Irish Sea estuary of the River Ribble. The area falls under West Lancashire Borough Council for administrative purposes, and Hesketh-with-Becconsall Parish Council for parochial matters.

Becconsall Old Church was hit by bomb shrapnel during World War II, All Saints Church on Station Road replaced the old church.



"HESKETH, with Becconsall, a parish, in the union of Ormskirk, hundred of Leyland, N. division of the county of Lancaster, 11 miles north by east of Ormskirk. The church, erected in 1745, and generally called Becconsall chapel, stands one mile below Hesketh Bank; it became the parish church in 1821, when an act was passed separating Hesketh and Becconsall from Croston, and forming them into a distinct parish.

The Primitive Methodists have a place of worship."

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 index of Lancashire Births, Marriages and Deaths Lancashire BMD

Lancashire Online Parish Clerks
An extremely useful resource for research in Lancashire Parishes http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/

Online Records
[FS = Familysearch.org; LOPC = Lancashire Online Parish Clerk project; AC = Ancestry.co.uk]

Other important considerations:

Prior to 1821 when Hesketh with Becconsall became a parish by act of Parliament, searches for ancestry prior to this year, must be made in the Croston parish registers and those of its attached chapelries. The baptisms, marriages and burials for Croston Parish are online for the following range of years:

See (and search) Winwick Parish'schapelries also (visit the Winwick Parish page).

Original records

While FamilySearch has microfilmed the St Thomas Ashton in Makerfield Parish registers, baptisms, marriages and burials from 1698-1900, these have not been completely transcribed and published online with the exception of the baptisms (see above). However, the Parish of Winwick which formerly was the mother or ancient parish until about 1845, has been transcribed, indexed and published online on the web site. :

[Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection]

Census records
http://www.1881pubs.com/ for details of public houses in the 1881 census

Poor Law Unions
Ormskirk Poor Law Union, Lancashire

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
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