Tarleton, Lancashire, England Genealogy

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Tarleton

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

Tarleton
Type	Ecclesiastical Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
County	Lancashire
Hundred	Leyland
Poor Law Union	Ormskirk
Registration District	Ormskirk
Records Begin
Parish registers	1719
Bishop's Transcripts	1723
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery	Leyland
Diocese	Manchester
Province	York
Probate Court	Court of the Bishop of Chester (Episcopal Consistory)
Archive
Lancashire Record Office

Parish History

Tarleton was formerly a chapel of ease but became an ecclesiastical parish in the county of Lancashire by 1719, formed from the Parish of Croston, Lancashire.

The village's name is sometimes said to be derived from an early Viking settlement known as Jarle's Town. The more likely derivation is from the Norse name Tharaldr, to which tun has been added. The early form is already "Tarleton", ca. 1200 and in the Feet of Fines, 1298. Tarleton is also a civil parish within the West Lancashire District. It is currently within the Parliamentary Constituency of South Ribble. Recently, it has been significantly built up with new housing developments, but it is still a relatively quiet rural village.
Tarleton Old Church is a picturesque building, standing in its large churchyard beside the main road. Built in brick in 1717, the small tower was heightened in stone, with a pretty domed bell-cote above, in 1824, and the porch and vestry were then added at the west end. A fine example of an early Georgian chapel, it retains many original fittings in its simple interior: box pews at the east end, open benches at the west, stone flagged floors, a reading desk and a west gallery that extends along the south wall. The large round-headed windows clearly lit the building.

TARLETON St Mary; 1719, a parish,inthe union of Ormskirk, hundred of Leyland, N. division of the county of Lancaster, 8½ miles north by east from Ormskirk. The parish wasformerly a chapelry in the parish of Croston. The church, consecrated in 1719.

Resources

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Cemeteries

• St. Mary's, Tarleton, Burials & Monumental Inscriptions(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
• Tarleton, St. Mary's [ Monumental 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
  

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Tarleton Parish Records
All Chapelries Found in Tarleton 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.

• 1647-1996 England, Lancashire Non-conformist Church Records, 1647-1996 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)

Catholic

• 1628 - 1628 List of Recusants in Tarletonn (p. 176)

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.

Taxation

• 1628 - 1628 Subsidy of Tarleton (p. 167)

• 1665 - Lancashire Hearth Tax: Leyland Hundred, Tarleton. E 179/132/351, The National Archives. Microfilm: FS Library Film 2228692.

Maps and Gazetteers

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