Kirkham, Lancashire, England Genealogy

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

Kirkham

Type	Ancient Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
County	Lancashire
Hundred	Amounderness
Poor Law Union	Fylde
Registration District	Fylde; Garstang; Preston
Records Begin
Parish registers	1539
Bishop's Transcripts	1678
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery	Amounderness
Diocese	Manchester
Probate Court	Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Commissary of the Archdeaconry of Richmond Western Deaneries - Amounderness
Archive
Lancashire Record Office

Parish History

KIRKHAM (St Michael), a market-town and parish, in the union of the Fylde, hundred of Amounderness, N. division of the county of Lancaster west by north of Preston. Other places in the parish include: Whittingham, Wharles, Brown Moss, Bryning with Kellamergh, Esprick, Great Plumpton, Greehalgh with Thistleton, Greenalgh with Thistleton, Greenhalgh, Larbreck, Little Eccleston, Little Eccleston with Larbreck, Little Ecclestone with Larbrick, Little Plumpton, Medlar with Wesham, Newsham, Newton with Scales, Roseacre, Roseacre and Wharles, Thistleton, Treals, Treals, Roseacre and Wharles, Westby, Westby with Plumpton, Westby with Plumptons, and Ballam.^[1]

The earliest evidence of a church on the site is in 684 AD. The fabric of the present church dates from 1822 when the nave, designed by Robert Roper, an architect from Preston, was built. In 1844 the tower and spire, designed by the Lancaster architect Edmund Sharpe, were added at the west end. In 1853 the chancel was rebuilt, probably by Joseph Hansom, to make the altar visible from the nave. The north and south galleries were removed in the middle of the 20th century and the area under the west gallery has been turned into a separate room. In 2004 it was discovered that the spire had developed structural problems because the iron ties reinforcing the stones had corroded. An appeal to repair the spire was launched and the work is now complete.

Places

Chapelries

Kirkham consists of the following chapelries:

Barton St Lawrence Chapelry - 1850
Goosnargh St Mary the Virgin Chapelry - 1639
Great & Little Singleton Chapelry - 1841
Hambleton Blessed Virgin Mary Chapelry - 1695
Lund Chapelry - 1840
Ribby Upon Wrea St Nicholas Chapelry - 1716
Warton Chapelry - 1848
Weeton with Preese St Michael Chapelry - 1850
Whitechapel St James Chapelry - 1819

Resources

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Cemeteries

1653-1999 St. Michael Parish Church, Kirkham, Index Monumental Inscriptions, 1653-1999(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
1700-1997 The Blessed Virgin Mary, Hambleton, Index of Monumental Inscriptions, 1700-1997(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
1852-1995 Holy Trinity Parish Church, Freckleton, Memorial Inscription Records, 1852-1995(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
St. John the Evangelist [Kirkham, Index [and] Burial Registers, Memorial Inscriptions](*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images

Civil Registration

Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day.

See England Civil Registration for online resources and information.

Online index of Lancashire Births, Marriages and Deaths Lancashire BMD

Church Records

The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor.
Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

Church of England

Chapelry is a church or churches built in a large ecclesiastical parish to help the members attend worship services closer to their homes.

Online Parish Records Table

Due to the increasing access of online records:

Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified

Dates in the following table are approximate

Hover over the collection's title for more information

Kirkham Parish Records
All Chapelries Found in Kirkham are included in these links.
Collections	Baptisms		Marriages		Burials
	Indexes and images	Indexes only	Indexes and images	Indexes only	Indexes and images	Indexes only
FamilySearch Collections-Lancashire	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-
Parish Registers-Lancashire	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-
Bishop's Transcripts - FamilySearch Catalog	1700s-1800s	-	1700s-1800s	-	1700s-1800s	-
FreeREG	-	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s
Findmypast-Lancashire ($)	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-
Ancestry-Church of England BMD-Lancashire ($)	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-
Ancestry-England & Wales, Birth, Christening, Marriage and Death Indexes ($)	-	1500s-1900s 1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s 1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s
Databases with Known Incomplete Parish Coverage
Boyd's Marriage Indexes-FMP (Free)	-	-	-	1500s-1800s	-	-
National Burial Index-FMP (Free)	-	-	-	-	-	1800s-1900s

Other Websites
These databases have incomplete parish coverage.

Joiner Marriage Index - Lancashire ($)
The Genealogist Parish Registers - Lancashire ($)
UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records
OnLine Parish Clerks - Lancashire - OnLine Parish Clerks project for Lancashire

Nonconformist Records

"Nonconformist" is a term referring to religious denominations other than an established or state church. In England, the state church is the Church of England.

Census Records

Census records from 1841 to 1921 are available online. See England Census for more resources.

Poor Law Unions

Fylde 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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Websites

References

↑ John M. Wilson, A Topographical Dictionary of England Published A Fullarton Co. Edinburgh (1848), pp. 697-701. Adapted.

[1] John M. Wilson, A Topographical Dictionary of England Published A Fullarton Co. Edinburgh (1848), pp. 697-701. Adapted.

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