Eccleston (near Prescot), Lancashire Family History Guide

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Eccleston (near Prescot) is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Lancashire, created in 1839 from Prescot Ancient Parish.

Alternative names: Christ Church, Eccleston Douglas Christ Church, Douglas Chapel

Parish church: Christ Church

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1719
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1722

Nonconformists include: Roman Catholic

Adjacent Parishes

Eccleston Parish Records

An index of parish records of people from Eccleston near Prescot. The index includes information from Marriage Licences granted within The Archdeaconry of Chester in the Diocese of Chester V.8 1691-1700

Marriage Licences

The following have been extracted from Marriage Licences granted within The Archdeaconry of Chester in the Diocese of Chester V.8 1691-1700.

1691 May 23 John Glover, and Ann Travis, of Eccleston, co. Lanc, Spinster. At Prescott

1692/3 Feb. 8 Richard Vaughan, of Wrexham, Gentleman, and Ann Fazakerley, Parish of Eccleston, Spinster. Bondsman, Thomas Simpson. At Pulford, Dodleston, or Farndon.

1692/3 Feb. 14 Matthew Bushell, of Eccleston, Parish of Prescott, Yeoman, and Ellen Knowles, of Appleton, in same Parish.

1693/4 Feb. 19 Henry Woods, of Eccleston, Parish of Prescot, co. Lanc., Yeoman, and Tabitha Gaskell, of Great Sankey, co. aforesaid, Spinster. Bondsman, Samuel Gaskell, of Great Sankey aforesaid. Tanner.

1694/5 Jan. 29 Thomas Leech, of Ashton, Parish of Winwick, co. Lanc, and Margaret Bushell, of Eccleston, Parish of Prescott, co. aforesaid.

1694 June 12 Richard Naylor, of Ashton, and Rachael Sephton, of Eccleston, co. Lanc, Bondsman, John Lowe of Ashton aforesaid.

1694 Aug. 18 Edward Ball, of Eccleston, co. Lanc, Yeoman, and Alice Barrow, of Golborne, co. aforesaid. Spinster.

1695 June 1 Ralph Walley, of Up-Holland, co. Lanc, Yeoman, and Ann Barrett, of Eccleston, co. aforesaid, Spinster. Bondsman, John Cross, of Up-Holland aforesaid. Yeoman. At Up-Holland, or Eccleston.

1695 June 26 Richard Dickenson, of Maudsley, Parish of Croston, co. Lanc, Yeoman, and Elizabeth Harrison, of Eccleston, co. aforesaid, Spinster. Bondsman, John Forrest, of Frodsham, co. Chester, Yeoman.

1695 July 6 Daniel Wareing, of Eccleston, co. Lanc, Husbandman, and Margaret Eccleston. At Eccleston.

1695/6 ? Jan. 26 Thomas Crane of Dalton, co. Lanc, and Ann Barrett, of Eccleston, co. aforesaid. At Wigan, co. Lanc.

1695/6 Feb. 21 Thomas Causey, Parish of Standish, and Margery Holmes, Parish of Eccleston, co. Lanc. Bondsmen, Thomas Causey, of Worthington, co. Lanc., Schoolmaster, and John Smalley, of Worthington, same co. Yeoman.

1696 Sep. 3 Thomas Higham, of Eccleston, co. Lanc., Jennet Harrison, of same. Bondsman, Henry Brough, of Standish, co. Lanc., Innholder. At Standish.

1696/7 Jan. 29 Edward Roper, of Wrightington, co. Lanc., and Mary Gooding, of Eccleston, co. aforesaid. At Standish, co. Lanc.

1696/7 Feb. 11 James Brettergh, of Holt, Esquire, and Ann Hurst, of Eccleston, Parish of Prescott, co. Lanc. Bondsman John Hurst, junior, of Eccleston, Newton, co. Lanc.

1697 May 24 William Barton, of Ormskirk, co. Lanc., and Esther Eccleston, Parish of Prescott, Spinster. Bondsman, Richard Houghton, of Ormskirk aforesaid. At Wigan.

1697 Sep. 29 William Marsh, of Prescott, Yeoman, and Martha Tunstall, of Eccleston, Spinster. At Eccleston.

1698 May 23 Richard Loxam, of Hoolswalton [Ulnes Walton], co. Lanc., Yeoman, and Sarah Newton, of Eccleston, co. aforesaid, Spinster. Bondsman William Wilding, of Walton in le Dale, co. aforesaid, Innholder, and Richard Loxam, at Lowchurch.

1698 Nov. 11 William Banester, Parish of Penwortham, co. Lanc., and Hannah Naylor, Parish of Eccleston, co. aforesaid. Bondsman, William Banester, of Longton, co. Lane, Clerk. At Douglas Chappell, co. Lanc.

1699 June 18 Richard Plumb, and Ellen Rigby, both of the Parish of Eccleston, co. Lanc.. Bondsman, Richard Plumb, of Wrightington, and Seth Bibby, of same, Linnen-weaver. At Ormskirk, co. Lanc.

Parish History

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

ECCLESTON, a township, in the parish and union of Prescot, hundred of West Derby, S. division of the county of Lancaster; containing 6247 inhabitants.

In the reign of Edward III. William le Norreys performed suit and service to the county and wapentake, for this, with other manors, by the hands of Alan de Eccleston, his tenant, the pedigree of which latter family ascends to the time of Henry III. The estates descended to Thomas Eccleston, Esq. (afterwards Scarisbrick, of Scarisbrick), who sold them about 1812 to Colonel Taylor, of Moston.

The township includes the small hamlet of Portico and the wild common of Thatto Heath, and portions of the towns of Prescot and St. Helen’s; it lies west of St. Helen’s, and is intersected by the road from that place to Prescot: the area is 3311 acres. The manufacture of crown-glass and earthenware is considerable; and there are several stone-quarries, and mines of coal.

Millbrook is the residence of William Pilkington, Esq., and Springfield that of John Barnes Barrow, Esq. Christ-Church, here, was built in 1838, at a cost of £2500, and is a cruciform structure in the early English style, with a square tower surmounted by a spire; it has some fine oak carving, and the eastern window is of painted glass, with figures of Faith, Hope, and Charity.

The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £120; patron, Samuel Taylor, Esq., of Eccleston Hall, who gave the site, and chiefly defrayed the cost of the erection of the church, parsonage-house, and schools. The impropriate tithes have been commuted for £370, payable to King’s College, Cambridge, and the vicarial for £200. There is an endowment of £20 per annum for teaching children. The learned Dr. Adam Clarke wrote the principal part of his Commentary on the Bible at Millbrook, in the township.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

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