Ashton in Makerfield is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Lancashire, created in 1840 from chapelry in Winwick Ancient Parish.
Other places in the parish include: Haydock.
Alternative names: Ashton in Mackerfield, Ashton in Willows, Ashton le Willows, Ashton within Makerfield
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1698
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1698
Nonconformists include: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Independent Methodist, Independent/Congregational, Particular Baptist, Presbyterian, Roman Catholic, Society of Friends/Quaker, Unitarian, and Wesleyan Methodist.
Adjacent Parishes
- Pemberton
- Golborne
- Ashton in Makerfield Holy Trinity
- Wigan All Saints
- Parr
- Burton Wood
- Newton in Makerfield St Peter
- Newton in Makerfield
- Wigan St Catherine
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
ASHTON-IN-MACKERFIELD, or Ashton-le-Wlllows, a village and a township in Wigan district, and a parish partly also in Warrington district, Lancashire. The village stands 2½ miles NW of Newton, and 3 WNW of Golborne r. station; and has a post office, of the name of Ashton-in-Mackerfield, under Warrington. The township has long been noted for the manufacture of hinges, locks, files, and nails; and is maintained also by cotton factories and coalmines. Acres, 5,557. Real property, £28,364, of which £13,065 are in mines. Pop. in 1851, 5,679; in 1861, 6,566. Houses, 1,176. The parish includes also the township of Haydock, and comprises 7,919 acres. Real property, £42,630, of which £20,893 are in mines. Pop. in 1851, 7,673; in 1861, 10,181. Houses, 1,777. There are two livings, or ecclesiastically two parishes, Holy Trinity and St. Thomas, the former a rectory, the latter a vicarage, in the diocese of Chester. Value of H. T., £550; of St. T., £245. Patron of H. T., the Earl of Derby; of St. T., the Rector. H. T. church is near the hamlets of Downhall-Green and North Ashton, where is a post office under Wigan; and St. T church. is in the village of Ashton. There is also a vicarage of St. James’, Haydock. There are likewise a handsome Independent chapel built in 1867, three other dissenting chapels, a Roman Catholic chapel, an endowed. school with £33, and charities £97.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
Lancashire FH & Heraldry Society
Manchester Archives and Local History
Lancashire
England, Lancashire, Parish Registers 1538-1910
England, Lancashire Non-Conformist Church Records, 1647-1996
Catholic Parish Registers of Liverpool 1741-1773
St James’ Cemetery Burials Liverpool
England, Lancashire, Oldham Cemetery Registers, 1797-2004
England, Lancashire, Rusholme Road Cemetery 1821-1933
Chorlton Upon Medlock Burials 1821-1933
Lancaster Convict Database 1800s
Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
Lancashire Lantern – archive of local old photographs, postcards and other images
Records for England
Births and Baptism Records
England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
Great Britain, Births and Baptisms, 1571-1977
England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008
United Kingdom, Maritime Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1787-1933
Marriage Records
Great Britain Marriages, 1797-1988
England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005
United Kingdom, Maritime Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1787-1933
Death Records
England Death Records, 1998-2015
England Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991
Great Britain Deaths and Burials, 1778-1988
England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007
United Kingdom, Maritime Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1787-1933
England and Wales, National Index of Wills and Administrations, 1858-1957
England and Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1640-1660
Non-Conformist Records
England and Wales Non-Conformist Record Indexes (RG4-8), 1588-1977
Census
England and Wales Census, 1841
England and Wales Census, 1851
England and Wales Census, 1861
England and Wales Census, 1871
England and Wales Census, 1881
England and Wales Census, 1891
England and Wales Census, 1901
England and Wales Census, 1911
Occupations
United Kingdom, Merchant Navy Seamen Records, 1835-1941
War and Conflict
Great Britain, War Office Registers, 1772-1935
United Kingdom, Chelsea Pensioners’ Service Records, 1760-1913
United Kingdom, Royal Hospital Chelsea: Discharge Documents of Pensioners 1760-1887 (WO 122)
United Kingdom, Maritime Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1787-1933
United Kingdom, Militia Service Records, 1806-1915
United Kingdom, World War I Service Records, 1914-1920
United Kingdom, World War I Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps Records, 1917-1920
Newspaper Archives
British Newspaper Archive, Family Notices
British Newspaper Archives, Obituaries
Maps
Vision of Britain historical maps
Administration
- County: Lancashire
- Civil Registration District: Wigan
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Chester (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Chester
- Rural Deanery: Winwick
- Poor Law Union: Wigan
- Hundred: West Derby
- Province: York