Ormskirk, Lancashire, England Genealogy

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

Here is List of Chapelries in Ormskirk Parish

Ormskirk
Ormskirk Parish Church.JPG
Type Ancient Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
County Lancashire
Hundred West Derby
Poor Law Union Ormskirk
Registration District Ormskirk
Records Begin
Parish registers 1557
Bishop's Transcripts 1604
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery North Meols
Diocese Chester
Probate Court Court of the Bishop of Chester (Episcopal Consistory)
Archive
Lancashire Record Office


ORMSKIRK (St Peter and St Paul), a market town and parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of West Derby, S. division of Lancashire; containing, with the chapelry of Skelmersdale, and the townships of Bickerstaffe, Burscough, Lathom, and Scarisbrick, 13 miles north by northeast of Liverpool. Another church was erected here in 1848; and at Bickerstaffe, Burscough, Lathom, and Skelmersdale are also chapels. There are places of worship for Independents, Unitarians, and Wesleyans; also a Roman Catholic chapel, built about a century ago, and dedicated to St. Oswald.[1]

Resources

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Civil Registration

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

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.

Chapelries of Ormskirk
  • Bickerstaffe Holy Trinity Chapelry - 1837
  • Burschough St John Chapelry - 1848
  • Latham Park Chapel Chapelry - 1929
  • Scarisbrick St Mark Chapelry - 1837
  • Skelmersdale St Paul Chapelry - 1817

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

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

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

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

Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.

Websites

References

  1. Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 479-483. Adapted. Date accessed: 22 October 2013.

The Ormskirk and District Family History Society