Halewood, Lancashire Family History Guide

Halewood is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Lancashire, created in 1845 from Childwall Ancient Parish. In 1869 Halewood ecclesiastical boundary was altered with the creation of Whiston Ecclesiastical Parish, in 1875 with the creation of Ditton Ecclesiastical Parish and in 1957 with the creation of Hunts Cross Ecclesiastical Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Halewood with Little Woolton.

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers: 1839
• Bishop’s Transcripts: 1839

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

• Much Woolton
• Prescot
• Hale
• Childwall
• Huyton

Halewood Parish Registers

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

Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials

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

Halewood St Nicholas, Church of England Baptisms 1839-1906

Marriages and Banns

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

Halewood, St Nicholas, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1846-1935

Burials

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

Halewood, St Nicholas, Church of England Burials, 1841-1961

Parish History

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

HALEWOOD, a township, in the parish of Childwall, union of Prescot, hundred of West Derby, S. division of Lancashire, 8 miles (S. E. by E.) from Liverpool; containing 1101 inhabitants. It comprises 3759a. 3r., of generally level surface, and for the most part good strong corn-land, which has been much improved by drainage and the application of manure. The Earl of Derby, and John Ireland Blackburne, Esq., are the chief owners of the soil.

An antiquated and secluded building here, called The Hutte, or The Haut, was the abode of the Ireland family, lords of the place, who subsequently removed to Hale Hall. Halewood Farm is the residence of Robert Neilson, Esq.; Halewood Green, that of Spencer Steer, Esq.; and Woodside, that of Sidney Sherlock, Esq.

Part of this township and part of Tarbock have been formed into an ecclesiastical district, of which the living is a perpetual curacy, in the patronage of the Vicar of Childwall, and endowed with £15 from the tithes of Childwall, £18 from Queen Anne’s Bounty, and a rent-charge of £20 from the Earl of Derby: there is a good parsonage-house.

The tithes of the township have been commuted for £61. 9. 4. payable to the vicar, £330 to the lessee of the Bishop of Chester, and £3. 9. 4. to the incumbent of Hale. The church, dedicated to St. Michael, was built in 1839, at a cost of £1200, and was enlarged in 1847, at a cost of £900; it is a cruciform structure in the early English style, with a very neat interior.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Historical Maps

National Library of Scotland Maps – includes OS 25 inch 1892-1918 maps, a vast range of other historical OS maps and land use maps

The Lower Mersey, Runcorn and Warrington 1913: One Inch Sheet 097 (Old Ordnance Survey Maps - Inch to the Mile) This Inch to the Mile map covers the busy and fascinating area of the Mersey from Allerton and Garston eastward to Warrington and Thelwall; coverage north-south is from Knowsley Hall to Helsby. The Manchester Ship Canal runs through the map, and major towns include Widnes, Runcorn and Warrington, with all their industrial history. Other towns on the map are Frodsham, Precot and Ellesmere Port. On the reverse is included a map of Preston Brook, on the Bridgewater Canal. View Map Details*

Administration

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