Prescot, Lancashire Genealogy

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Guide to Prescot, Lancashire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records. See "A Comprehensive List of Prescot Parish Chapelries"

Prescot, Lancashire
Type	Ancient Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
Hundred	West Derby
County	Lancashire
Poor Law Union	Prescot
Registration District	Prescot; Warrington
Records begin
Parish registers: 1573
Bishop's Transcripts: 1602
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery	Prescot
Diocese	Chester
Legal Jurisdictions
Probate Court	Court of the Bishop of Chester (Episcopal Consistory)
Location of Archive
Lancashire Record Office

Parish History

PRESCOT (St Mary), a market-town and parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of West Derby, S. division of the county of Lancaster, 8 miles east by northeast of Liverpool. The parish consists of the chapelries of Farnworth, Rainford, St. Helen's, and Great Sankey, and the townships of Bold, Cronton (which had at one time, 31 Nonconformist chapels in the area--mostly Welsh), Cuerdley, Ditton (Hough Green), Eccleston, Parr, Penketh, Prescot, Rainhill, Sutton, Whiston, Widness, and Windle. There are chapels at Eccleston, Farnworth, Parr, Rainford, Rainhill, St. Helen's, Great Sankey, and Sutton. The Unitarians, Primitive Methodists, and Wesleyan Methodists, have places of worship in the town; and at Portico, a mile and a half on the east, is a Roman Catholic chapel, built in 1790, and dedicated to St Nicholas.

Resources

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.

Church records

Online Records

• 1538 - 1910 England, Lancashire, Parish Registers 1538-1910 at FamilySearch — index

Prescot St. Mary parish registers and those registers of all of its smaller chapelries lying within its boundaries have been mostly transcribed and are displayed online at the following websites and ranges of years:

AC = Ancestry.co.uk (£)

FMP = findmypast (£)

FREG = FreeReg

FS = FamilySearch.org

LBMD = LancashireBMD.org.uk

LOPC = Lancashire Online Parish Clerk

PRESCOT ST MARY PARISH (1531) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	1580-1632, 1770-1776, 1813-1828, 1861-1900	1576-1900	1770-1775, 1812-1900
LOPC	1665-1900	1667-1837, 1845-1900	1665-1900
LBMD	1837-1961	1911-1969	None
AC	1531-1666	1531-1666	1531-1666
ECCLESTON ST THOMAS Chapelry  (1839) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	1864-1887	1841-1885	1839-1849, 1858-1903
LOPC	1839-1872	1841-1876	1839-1865, 1878-1884, 1896-1903
LBMD	None	1841-1955	None
ECCLESTON-ST HELENS CHRIST CHURCH Chapelry  (1838) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	1838-1900	1840-1868	None
LOPC	1838-1900	1840-1900	None
LBMD	None	None	None
FARNWORTH ST WILFRID Chapelry  (1538) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	1538-1915	1538-1909	1727-1873, 1895-1953
LOPC	1728-1920	1600-1611, 1728-1875	1728-1812
LBMD	1837-1879	None	1837-1956
AC	1538-1612	1538-1612	1538-1612
HOUGH GREEN (DITTON) ST MICHAEL Chapelry  (1870) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	1870-1927	1875-1935	None
LOPC	None	None	None
LBMD	None	None	None
PARR ST PETER Chapelry  (1835) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	1869-1888	None	1860-1861
LOPC	1845-1908	1846-1894	1866-1881
LBMD	None	1846-1974	None
FREG	1835-1905	None	None
RAINFORD ALL SAINTS Chapelry  (1702) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	1765-1881	1800-1837, 1876-1877	1765-1867
LOPC	1676-1686, 1697-1700, 1718-1881	1719-1868	1718-1870
LBMD	1837-1974	None	None
AC	1702-1812	1704-1812	1702-1812
FREG	1765-1833	None	1765-1812
RAINHILL Chapelry  (1688) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	1690-1720 (partial)	None	None
LOPC	1688-1691	None	None
LBMD	None	None	None
GREAT SANKEY ST MARY Chapelry  (1649) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	1649-1880	1658-1683, 1730-1750, 1842-1913	None
LOPC	1728-1937	1730-1752, 1842-1938	1735-1909
LBMD	None	None	None
ST HELENS Chapelry  (1680) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	1713-1850	1724-1855	1765-1767, 1775-1800, 1821-1851
LOPC	1676-1687, 1697-1700, 1813-1850	1813-1850	1697-1700, 1813-1850
LBMD	1837-1935	None	1837-1850
AC	1713-1812	1713-1837	1713-1812
SUTTON ST NICHOLAS Chapelry  (1849) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	1849-1873	1850-1893	1850-1871, 1887-1888
LOPC	1849-1892	1850-1897	1850-1888
LBMD	None	1850-1968	None
FMP	None	None	None
FREG	1849-1892	1850-1897	None
WHISTON Chapelry  (1865) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	1868-1870; 1892-1894	None	1868-1870; 1892-1894
LOPC	None	None	None
LBMD	None	1911-1960	None
WIDNES ST MARY Chapelry  (1856) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	None	None	None
LOPC	None	None	None
LBMD	None	1837-1900	None

Original Records

The Lancashire Record Office at Bow Lane, Preston PR2 1RE, holds the original parish registers in its vast collections. Contact their website for contact information.

The Family History Library has microfilmed the parish registers and Bishop's transcripts of Prescot St. Mary parish for the years 1576-1900. These films are available for ordering/circulating and researching at any one of its satellite FamilySearch Centers worldwide.

Census records

Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.

Court records

A manor court baron was held here six times a year; and a court leet on the festival of Corpus Christi, when a coroner for the manor and liberty is appointed.

There is a court of requests, for the recovery of debts to any amount, at which the steward of the manor presides; and petty-sessions for the Prescot division of the hundred take place once a month.

Newspapers

Furmsten, Chris.  Newspaper Indexes.  A four month extraction of names from the Prescot Reporter a weekly newspaper, listing name, date, event, occupation, age, and place.  Covers years Nov. 1859-April 1860. In the journal Hel Achau, #20, 1986, pages 9-13. Family History Library Ref. 942.93 D25h

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.

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