Halsall is an Ancient Parish in the county of Lancashire.
Other places in the parish include: Haskeyne, Downholland, Down Holland, Cunscough, and Barton.
Alternative names:
Parish church: St. Cuthbert
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1653
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1606
Nonconformists include:
Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
HALSALL (St. Cuthbert), a parish, in the union of Ormskirk, hundred of West Derby, S. division of the county of Lancaster; comprising the townships of Down Holland, Halsall, and Lydiate, and the chapelries of Maghull, and Melling with Cunscough; and containing 4445 inhabitants, of whom 1218 are in the township of Halsall, 3 miles (W. N. W.) from Ormskirk.
Halsall was anciently under the barony of Warrington. Of a family of the local name, was Simon de Halsall, contemporary with Sir Adam de Molines, 12th Henry III.; and previous to 1593 lived Sir Edward Halsall, some time chancellor of the exchequer at Chester. Sir Cuthbert Halsall sold the manor and advowson of the church, for, it is said, £1000, to Sir Gilbert, Lord Gerard of Bromley. By the will of the Gerards, Lord Mahon, Baron of Oakhampton, succeeded to Halsall; and his wife conveyed the property, by her second marriage, to the Mordaunts, who sold the living to the Blundell family.
The parish comprises 29,312 acres, of which 6996a. 3r. are in Halsall township. It is situated near the coast, and intersected by the Leeds and Liverpool canal, which passes through each of its townships; the views of the sea are good, and the air salubrious. There are some quarries of freestone; and in Halsall moss, which is rather extensive, is found a bituminous turf, which burns like a candle. La Mancha, here, is the residence of Thomas Fisher Moore, Esq.
The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £24. 11. 5½., and in the patronage of R. B. B. Hollinshead Blundell, Esq., of Deysbrook; net income, £3051: the rector’s house is a stately structure of stone, built in 1847. The parochial church is handsome, partly in the decorated and partly in the later English style, with a lofty spire, and forms a conspicuous object in the scenery.
There are also churches at Maghull, Melling, and Lydiate, the livings of which are perpetual curacies, in the patronage of the rector.
In the churchyard is a school-house, built in 1595, by Edward Halsall, who bequeathed a rent-charge of £13. 6. 8.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Parish Records
FamilySearch
England, Lancashire, Halsall – Cemeteries ( 1 )
St. Cuthbert’s church, Halsall : monumental inscriptions
Author: Liverpool & S. W. Lancashire Family History Society
England, Lancashire, Halsall – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Halsall, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office
England, Lancashire, Halsall – Census – 1851 – Indexes ( 1 )
Index of 1851 census, Ref. HO 107-2196, for the township of Halsall
Author: Sagar, John H.; Peet, Geoffrey; Ormskirk and District Family History Society
England, Lancashire, Halsall – Church records ( 11 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Halsall, 1606-1893
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Halsall (Lancashire)
Bishop’s transcripts for Lydiate, Maghull, and Melling, 1610-1868
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Lydiate (Lancashire); Church of England. Chapelry of Maghull (Lancashire); Church of England. Chapelry of Melling (near Maghull, Lancashire)
Bishop’s transcripts for Melling, near Maghull, 1664-1877
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Melling (near Maghull, Lancashire)
England, Lancashire, Halsall, Saint Cuthbert parish registers, 1813-1938
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Halsall (Lancashire); Lancashire Records Office (Preston, England)
Parish register transcripts, 1707-1948
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Maghull (Lancashire)
Parish registers for Halsall, 1653-1919
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Halsall (Lancashire); Lancashire Record Office
Parish registers for Lydiate, 1841-1921
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Lydiate (Lancashire); Lancashire Record Office
Parish registers for Maghull, 1729-1921
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Maghull (Lancashire); Lancashire Record Office
Parish registers for Melling, 1603-1921
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Melling (near Maghull, Lancashire); Lancashire Record Office
The registers of Melling Chapel in the parish of Halsall : baptisms and burials 1607-1812; marriages 1603-1837
Author: Williams, Thomas, 1737-1802; Williams, Thomas, 1737-1802; Church of England. Chapelry of Melling (near Maghull, Lancashire)
The registers of the parish of Halsall, 1606-1754
Author: Williams, Thomas, 1737-1802; Church of England. Parish Church of Halsall (Lancashire)
England, Lancashire, Halsall – Church records – Indexes ( 7 )
Computer printout of Halsall, Lancs., Eng
Computer printout of Maghull and Halsall, Lancs., Eng
Computer printout of Maghull, Lancs., Eng
Computer printout of Melling Chapel in Halsall, Lancs., Eng
Halsall [marriage index]
Parish register printouts of Halsall, Lancashire, England ; christenings, 1606-1754
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department
Parish register printouts of Halsall, Lancashire, England ; marriages, 1606-1754
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department
England, Lancashire, Halsall – Land and property ( 1 )
Documents deposited by Major C.V.R. Blundell, Halsall
Administration
- County: Lancashire
- Civil Registration District: Ormskirk
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Chester (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Chester
- Rural Deanery: North Meols
- Poor Law Union: Ormskirk
- Hundred: West Derby
- Province: York