England
& Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index |
The ParishThe parish of Leyland lies in central Lancashire centred upon the town of Leyland but including a wide area of surrounding rural and semi-rual land. Leyland is located around 6 miles south of the large industrial town of Preston and sits just west of the A49 road which connects Preston with Wigan. As a large and extensive parish Leyland parish included 3 chapelries, Euxton, Heapey and Hoghton, the last being licensed for marriages from 1781 and carrying its own page within this project. At the time of this transcript Leyland would have been a middle-sized town with a population of close to 3,000 folk surrounded by a heavily populated rural agricultural landscape. The economy of the wider parish dominated by pastoral farming whilst Leylane provided the specialist services and market to its hinterland. With the coning of the industrial revolution and into modern times Leyland has grown into a substantial urban area with large townships of Clayton le Woods and Whittle le Woods the urban area stretches for almost 3 miles from west to east. The area is thick with modern developments, the first notable change was the construction of the Leeds - Liverpool Canal which cut through the south of the parish. The railway age saw the main West Coast rail line from London to Glasgow pass through with Leyland acquiring a station on that line. Most modern is the M6 motorway which squeezes between Leyland and its subsidiary towns on its way from London to Carlisle. Leyland is, of course, synonymous with the car plants that carry its name now sadly smaller than in the mid 20th century. Leyland is drained southwestwards by the River Lostock which soon meets the heavily man-influenced River Asland and in turn the outer Ribble estuary before meeting the Irish Sea. Leyland is sited at between 20 and 50 metres with the western suburbs being lower, it is around 40 metres by the church, land rises steadily to the east of Clayton & Whittle le Woods onto the western Pennines quickly rising to 300 metres on Wheelton Moor. The wider parish of Leyland was extensive, as are many in Lancashire, covering close to 18,000 acres the wider parish would have supported a population of around 14,000 parishioners albeit it was much lower at the start of this transcription period. In Domesday times Leyland barely merits a mention, it being almost a frontier settlement at that time for the Normans, held by Roger de Poitou its assets were barely listed at all recording only a small patch of woodland. |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
1 |
14th May 1754 - 28th May 1766 |
Lancashire Record Office - Preston - Reference -
PR2908/1/13 |
Standard preprinted and self-numbered combined Banns &
Marriage register with 4 entries per page |
Grade 3 Register - there are sufficient quality issues
with this register to indicate that some misreads will occur
albeit few in number |
Fading of this register may lead to one or two misreads |
2 | 18th June 1766 - 22nd April 1783 | Lancashire Record Office - Preston - Reference - PR2908/1/14 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 4 entries per page | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
3 | 13th May 1783 - 10th June 1793 | Lancashire Record Office - Preston - Reference - PR2908/1/15 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 3 entries per page | Grade 3 Register - there are sufficient quality issues with this register to indicate that some misreads will occur albeit few in number | A stretch of this register has been filmed out-of-focus requiring retrieval of unreadable data from BTs to achieve a transcript |
4 | 17th June 1793 - 31st December 1812 | Lancashire Record Office - Preston - Reference - PR2908/1/16 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 4 entries per page | Grade 3 Register - there are sufficient quality issues with this register to indicate that some misreads will occur albeit few in number | This register suffers both fading and at times poor handwriting making for a rather tricky read with a likelihood of a few misreads as a result |
5 | 4th January 1813 - 13th May 1822 | Lancashire Record Office - Preston - Reference - PR2908/1/17 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
6 | 13th May 1822 - 22nd August 1831 | Lancashire Record Office - Preston - Reference - PR2908/1/18a | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None NB this register is bundled with its successor into a single archival deposit |
7 | 29th August 1831 - 12th January 1834 | Lancashire Record Office - Preston - Reference - PR2908/1/18b | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None NB this register is bundled with its predecessor into a single archival deposit |
8 | 12th January 1834 - 25th June 1837 | Lancashire Record Office - Preston - Reference - PR2908/1/19 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
Penwortham
St Mary
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Walton
le Dale St Leonard
Samlesbury St Leonard |
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Bolton
St Peter
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