Winwick, Lancashire, England Genealogy

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Lancashire

Lancashire Parishes

Winwick

Guide to Winwick, Lancashire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records. View a List of Chapels in the Parish of Winwick.

Winwick
Type	Ancient Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
County	Lancashire
Hundred	West Derby
Poor Law Union	Warrington
Registration District	Leigh; Warrington; Wigan
Records Begin
Parish registers	1563
Bishop's Transcripts	1600
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery	Winwick
Diocese	Chester
Probate Court	Court of the Bishop of Chester (Episcopal Consistory)
Archive
Lancashire Record Office

Parish History

WINWICK St Oswald a parish, in the union of Warrington, hundred of West Derby, S. division of Lancashire; containing, with the township of Houghton with Middleton and Arbury, the township of Winwick with Hulme, 3 miles north from Warrington. The parish was, until lately, of great extent, and included the now distinct parishes of Ashton-in-Makerfield, St Thomas in Ashton, Croft with Southworth, Lowton, Newchurch, and Newton-in-Makerfield; all which, by acts of parliament passed in 1844 and 1845, were formed into separate parishes. Other places in the parish include: Arbury, Haydock, Houghton, Houghton, Middleton and Arbury, Winwick with Hulme, Kenyon, Middleton, Myddleton, Risley, and Hulme.

Resources

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Use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map

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Cemeteries

• St. Oswald's Church, Winwick, Monumental Inscriptions of the Church, the Churchyard and the New Burial Ground(*) 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.

Chapelries of Winwick

Ashton-In-Mackerfield Holy Trinity Chapelry, see Ashton-In-Mackerfield St Thomas Parish Ashton-In-Mackerfield St Thomas Chapelry, see Ashton-In-Mackerfield St Thomas Parish Croft with Southworth Christ Church Chapelry - 1833

Lowton Chapelry - 1845 Newchurch in Culcheth Chapelry - 1599 Newton-In-Mackerfield St Peter Chapelry - 1743 Newton-Le-Willows Emmanuel Chapelry - 1841

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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Winwick Parish Records
All Chapelries Found in Winwick 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)

Census Records

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

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.

• England Jurisdictions 1851
• Vision of Britain