Newchurch, Lancashire Family History Guide

Newchurch is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Lancashire, created in 1748 from Winwick Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Bury Lane, Wigshaw, Twiss Green, Risley, Kenyon, Holcroft, and Desfurlong.

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

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

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

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

Adjacent Parishes

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].

Parish Registers

The Registers of Newchurch 1599 to 1812

The Registers of Newchurch 1599 to 1812. Lancashire Parish Register Society: Publications : Lancashire Parish Register Society : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Parish Records

FamilySearch

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England, Lancashire, Newchurch-Kenyon

England, Lancashire, Newchurch – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Newchurch, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Lancashire, Newchurch – Census – 1851 – Indexes ( 2 )
1851 census surname index of Lancashire–Newchurch sub-district : Public Record Office ref. HO 107/2248
Author: Lancashire Family History & Heraldry Society

Newchurch 1851 census–notes and addenda
Author: Lancashire Family History & Heraldry Society

England, Lancashire, Newchurch – Church history ( 1 )
A history of the parish of Newchurch : a brief survey of the parish registers
Author: Plant, Oscar Reginald

England, Lancashire, Newchurch – Church records ( 5 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Newchurch, 1609-1893
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Newchurch (Lancashire)

Newchurch (Culcheth), Lancashire, register of baptisms and burials, January 1813 – June 1841
Author: Bulmer, John Rubens, 1911-1996; Turner, M.; Church of England. Parish Church of Southworth-with-Croft (Lancashire); Church of England. Parish Church of Newchurch (Lancashire)

Parish of Winwick, Chapelry of Newchurch, Chapelry of Croft-with-Southworth
Author: Bulmer, John Rubens, 1911-1996; Church of England. Parish Church of Winwick (Lancashire); Church of England. Parish Church of Southworth-with-Croft (Lancashire); Church of England. Parish Church of Newchurch (Lancashire)

Parish registers for Newchurch, 1775-1853
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Newchurch (Lancashire)

The registers of Newchurch in the township of Culcheth in the county of Lancaster : christenings, weddings, and burials, 1599-1812
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Newchurch (Lancashire); Kaye, Walter J. (Walter Jenkinson); Kaye, Eugene Walter Whittenbury

England, Lancashire, Newchurch – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Computer printout of Newchurch in Culcheth or Newchurch Kenyon, Lancs., Eng

Maps

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