Longton, Lancashire Genealogy

Guide to Longton, Lancashire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: chapelry register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Chapelry History
LONGTON, was created a chapel of ease from, and lying within the boundaries of 1719 from chapelry in Penwortham, union of Preston, hundred of Leyland, N. division of Lancashire, 5 miles (S. W. by W.) from Preston. The Parish Church, St. Andrew's was completed in 1887 when the previous chapel of 1772 which stood nearer the main road was demolished. This stood on the site of an earlier chapel, the records of which are lost. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.

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

 * 1538 - 1910 at FamilySearch — index
 * 1603 - 1910 at FamilySearch — index and images

 Church of England 

Longton chapelry's registers of christenings, marriages and burials, along with those of the ancient parish of Penwortham to which it is attached, have been mostly transcribed and are displayed online at the following web sites and ranges of years:

For a full list of all those chapels surrounding Longton and comprising the whole ancient parish of Penwortham to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the PENWORTHAM ST MARY PARISH page.

Non Conformist Records

 * 1647-1996 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)

Genealogy
Barlow, Angela. A Lancashire Family. History and family history charts of Ralph Loxham and his first wife Margery, and second wife Jane 1622, and William Loxham and his wife Margaret Howthe 1638. of Longton and Preston. Other surnames Wilding, Sharples, Brewer, Jenkins, Gregson, Lawe, Sherdley, Eccleston, Johnson, Bannister, Rigby, Thompson, Proctor, Holland, Norris, Atherton, Sherdley, Walton, Premberlon, Critchley, Haylock, Whitehead Sidebottom, Farrer, Clayton, Willis, Fielden, Farrer. The Lancashire Family History and Heraldry Soc. magazine vol. 10.no.1, pages 25-35, FHL Ref 942.72 B2r

Poor Law Unions
Preston 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.

Taxation

 * 1628 - 1628 Subsidy of Longton (p. 169)


 * 1665 - Lancashire Hearth Tax: Leyland Hundred, Longton. E 179/132/351, The National Archives. Microfilm:.

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