Newchurch, Lancashire Family History Guide

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Newchurch or Newchurch Kenyon is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Lancashire, created in 1748 from Winwick Ancient Parish. Newchurch comprised the townships of Culcheth and Kenyon, and the hamlets of Holcroft, Pesfurlong, Risley and Bury Lane, and at one time the portion of Bury Lane later called Glazebury. The church was originally a chapel of ease to Winwick.

Alternative names: Culcheth, Winwick Newchurch in Culcheth, Trinity Newchurch Kenyon, Newchurch in Culcheth, Culceth

Newchurch location:

  • British National Grid Ref: SJ 66161 94986
  • BNG Eastings, Northings: 366161, 394986
  • Latitude, Longitude: 53.450541, -2.511008

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1599
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1609

Nonconformists include: Independent Methodist, Primitive Methodist, Roman Catholic, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Newchurch Parish Registers

The Registers of Newchurch 1599 to 1812

The Newchurch Parish Registers 1599 to 1812 are available free to read online, with options to download the pdf for personal research

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The Registers of Newchurch 1599 to 1812

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Baptisms Marriages and Burials

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

Note: Although Newchurch was historically in Lancashire, many of its parish registers appear within the Cheshire Church of England collections due to historic administrative boundaries.

Culcheth New Church, Cheshire Church of England Baptisms Marriages and Burials, 1599-1812

Culcheth, New Church, Cheshire Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1943

Marriage and Banns Records

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

Culcheth Newchurch, Cheshire Church of England Marriages and Banns 1837-1944

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

NEWCHURCH, or Newchurch-Kenyon, a village and a parish in Leigh district, Lancashire. The village stands near Kenyon Junction r. station, 3½ miles S of Leigh; and has a post-office under Warrington. The parish consists of the townships of Kenyon and Culcheth; contains the hamlets of Risley, Bury-Lane, Twiss-Green, Wigsbaw, and Holcroft; and was formerly a chapelry of Winwick parish. Acres, 6,958. Real property, £12,758. Pop. in 1851, 2,688; in 1861, 2,488. Houses, 499. The property is divided chiefly among four.

The manor of Culcheth, with Culcheth Hall, belongs to T. E. Withington, Esq. Kenyon House is the seat of R. Dewhurst, Esq.; New Brook House, of J. Hartley, Esq.; and Ivy House, of M. Tomlinson, Esq. The cotton manufacture is carried on, and bricks and tiles are made. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chester. Value, £240. Patron, the Earl of Derby. The church is old; comprises nave, aisle, chancel, and porch; and contains some brasses. There are a chapel of ease at Bury-Lane, chapels for Methodists, and national schools.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Culcheth – Worrall’s Directory of Warrington, Wigan, St. Helens, Etc 1876

Culcheth is a township in the parish of Newchurch, and contains, according to the census of 1871, a population of 2,266. The area is 5,361 statue acres. The village which is called Newchurch, is 16 miles from Manchester, 24 from Liverpool, 64 Warrington, and 3 from Leigh. Newchurch is one of the parishes taken from the large parish of Winwick by Act of Parliament. The living is a rectory; the Rev W.F. Black, M.A. is the present rector.

A district church, dedicated to All Saints, has been erected at Bury lane; the Rev George Feathers is curate in charge. There are two cotton mills, and large quantities of bricks and tiles are made in the township. The land in the district is in a high of cultivation; the chief crops are oats, potatoes and wheat. Thomas Ellames Withington, Esq., J.P., Culcheth Hall, is lord of the manor. There are two stations in the township (on the London and North Western line), one at Bury lane, and the other at Kenyon junction.

POST OFFICE NEWCHURCH – Thomas Broadhurst postmaster. Letters from all parts arrive (from Warrington) at ten minutes past nine in the morning, and are despatched thereto at twenty five minutes past four in the evening. The nearest Money Order and Telegraph Office is at Leigh.

Parish Church, Newchurch; Rev William F Black DD rector

All Saints Church, Bury lane; Rev George Feathers curate

Methodist (Independent) chapel

Methodist (Wesleyan) chapel

Presbyterian chapel; Rev James Cleland minister

Maps

View detailed 19th-century Ordnance Survey maps from the National Library of Scotland Maps – includes OS 25 inch 1892-1918 maps, a vast range of other historical OS maps and land use maps. These maps reveal old street layouts, parish boundaries, and landmarks long since vanished.

Vision of Britain historical maps

Administration

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

Sources

The following sources have been used to compile this article.

  • F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991)
  • Worrall’s Directory of Warrington, Wigan, St. Helens, Etc 1876
  • The Registers of Newchurch 1599 to 1812
  • Cheshire Archives and Local Studies Catalogue
  • Ancestry.co.uk