Croft with Southworth, Lancashire Family History Guide

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Croft with Southworth is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Lancashire, created in 1835 from Winwick Ancient Parish; located on Lady Lane.

Other places in the parish include: Winwick with Hulme, Southworth, and Houghton, Middleton and Arbury.

Alternative names: Croft, Southworth and Croft, Southworth with Croft, Winwick Croft with Southworth

Parish church: Christ Church

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1833
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1833

Nonconformists include: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Presbyterian, and Roman Catholic.

Adjacent Parishes

Croft with Southworth Parish Registers

Search online registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials including digitised images of original records and registers and indexed transcriptions.

Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers of baptism, marriage, and burial records.

Croft With Southworth, Christ Church, Cheshire Church of England Baptisms, 1833-1956

Marriage and Banns Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers of marriages and banns records.

Croft With Southworth Christ Church, Cheshire Church of England Marriages and Banns 1845-1944

Death and Burial Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers of deaths and burial records.

Croft With Southworth Christ Church, Cheshire Church of England Burials 1834-1989

Parish History

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

CROFT, with Southworth (Christ Church), a parish, in the union of Warrington, hundred of West Derby, S. division of the county of Lancaster, 5 miles (N. N. E.) from Warrington; containing 1155 inhabitants. The Croft family held lands in Croft in the reign of Edward III.; Southworth gave name to the knightly family of Southworth, and both manors were possessed by Sir John Southworth in the 39th of Elizabeth. They subsequently passed to other families, and also belonged to the Roman Catholic establishment at Stonyhurst.

This is a new parish formed out of the parish of Winwick by act of parliament, in 1845. It comprises 1851 acres, whereof 1288 are meadow and pasture, and the remainder nearly all arable; the surface is level, and the soil clay and peat. The population consists partly of handloom weavers.

The living is a rectory, in the patronage of the Earl of Derby: the tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of £230; and there is a glebe-house, built at the expense of the rector of Winwick. The church, which is in the later English style, with a tower and spire, was erected in 1833, at the cost of £4000, defrayed by the rector of Winwick, aided by society grants. There are places of worship for Unitarians and Methodists; and a Roman Catholic chapel. A school is endowed with £6. 10. per annum, and a house and garden.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Administration

  • County: Lancashire
  • Civil Registration District: Warrington
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Chester (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Chester
  • Rural Deanery: Winwick
  • Poor Law Union: Warrington
  • Hundred: West Derby
  • Province: York