Eccleston St Thomas, Lancashire Family History Guide
Eccleston St Thomas is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Lancashire, created in 1839 from Prescot Ancient Parish.
Alternative names:
Parish church: St Thomas
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1839
- Bishop’s Transcripts: None
Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist, Roman Catholic, Wesleyan.
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
ECCLESTON, a township and two chapelries in Prescot parish, Lancashire. The township lies nominally ¾ of a mile NNE of Prescot; but it includes parts of both Prescot and St. Helens towns; and it shares the railway and postal facilities of both. Acres, 3,387. Real property, £36,478; of which £4,206 are in mines, £264 in quarries, and £466 in gas-works. Pop. in 1851, 8,509; in 1861, 11,640. Houses, 2,045. Pop. of the part in Prescot town, 930; of the part in St. Helens town, 8,012. Crown-glass and earthenware have been extensively manufactured.
The chapelries are Christ Church and St. Thomas; the former connected with Prescot town, the latter with St. Helens. Christ Church was constituted in 1838; St. Thomas, in 1839. Pop. of the former, 2,328; of the latter, 8,206. The living of Christ Church is a p. curacy, that of St. T. a vicarage, in the dio. of Chester. Value of C., £110; of St. T., £300. Patron of the former, S. Taylor, Esq; of the latter, Trustees. One of the churches is a modern edifice, with a spire. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Roman Catholics, and a national school.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].