Prescot Genealogical Records
Prescot Birth & Baptism Records
An index to births registered throughout England & Wales. Provides a reference to order copies of birth certificates from the national registrar of births, marriages and deaths – the General Register Office.
Baptism registers are the primary source for birth documentation before 1837, though are relevant to the present. They record the date a child was baptised, their parents' names and more.
Name index linked to original images of the baptism registers of Ravenhead, Prescot. Records document parents' names and date of baptism and/or birth.
Baptism registers record the baptism of those born in and around Parr and were subsequently baptised in an Anglican place of worship. They are the primary source of birth details before 1837, though are useful to the present.
Records of baptism for people born in and around Sutton between 1840 and 1899. Details include child's name, parents' names and dates of birth and/or baptism.
Prescot Marriage & Divorce Records
An index to marriages registered throughout England & Wales. This is the only national marriage index that allows you to search by both spouse's names. Provides a reference to order copies of marriage certificates from the national registrar of births, marriages and deaths – the General Register Office.
Details on those who married at Ravenhead, Prescot between 1870 and 1936. Information given usually includes abode and marital status. After April 1837 father's names and ages are recorded.
Details on those who married at Sutton between 1850 and 1899. Information given may include parents' names, ages, marital status, abode and more.
Marriage records from people who married at Parr between 1840 and 1936. Lists an individual's abode, marital status, father's name, age and signature
Marriage registers record Anglican marriages in Prescot. They are the primary marriage document before 1837 and contain the same details as marriage certificates from then on.
Prescot Death & Burial Records
An index to deaths registered throughout England & Wales. Provides a reference to order copies of death certificates from the national registrar of births, marriages and deaths – the General Register Office.
Burial registers are the primary source for death documentation before 1837, though are relevant to the present. They record the date someone was buried, their age & residence.
Burial records for people buried at Sutton between 1850 and 1889. Lists the deceased's name, residence and age.
Burial registers record burials that occurred at Prescot. They are the primary source documenting deaths before 1837, though are useful to the present. Details given may include the deceased's name, residence, age, names of relations, cause of death and more.
Burial registers are the primary source for death documentation before 1837, though are relevant to the present. They record the date someone was buried, their age & residence. Details given may include the deceased's name, residence, age, names of relations, cause of death and more.
Prescot Census & Population Lists
An index to and digital images of records that detail 40 million civilians in England and Wales. Records list name, date of birth, address, marital status, occupation and details of trade or profession.
The 1911 census provides details on an individual's age, residence, place of birth, relations and occupation. FindMyPast's index allows searches on for multiple metrics including occupation and residence.
A tax list of wealthier Lancashire residents.
Two lay subsidies from the reigns of Henry III and Edward I.
A history of the Chartist Cooperative Land Society, which aimed to settle chartists on smallholdings. Also includes a list of over 5,000 chartist sympathizers in Lancashire.
Newspapers Covering Prescot
A searchable newspaper providing a rich variety of information about the people and places of the Liverpool district. Includes obituaries and family announcements.
A local newspaper including news from the Liverpool area, family announcements, business notices, advertisements, legal & governmental proceedings and more.
A database allowing full text searches of a newspaper covering regional news, family announcements, obituaries, court proceedings, business notices and more in the Liverpool area.
A searchable newspaper providing a rich variety of information about the people and places of the Bolton le Moors district. Includes obituaries and family announcements.
A local paper including news from the Bury area, legal & governmental proceedings, family announcements, business notices, advertisements and more.
Prescot Wills & Probate Records
Searchable index and original images of over 12.5 million probates and administrations granted by civil registries. Entries usually include the testator's name, date of death, date of probate and registry. Names of relations may be given.
A searchable index of testators connected to original images of their will and any probate documents. These records can help trace your Cheshire ancestors back to the 15th century.
A calendar of probate, admon and testamentary depositions from Chester Diocese. The latter, deposition, are sworn statements at testamentary trials.
Digital images, indexed by testor's name, of 28,716 wills, administrations, inventories and other probate documents. The records can shed light on an individual’s relations, possessions, land holdings, legal agreements and more. They cover various jurisdictions throughout the north of England.
An index to 263,822 wills, administrations and other probate documents proved by an ecclesiastical court in York. The index included the testor's name, residence, year of probate, type of document and reference to order copies of the referenced document(s.).
Prescot Immigration & Travel Records
Records of around 40,000 people and their families who were forcibly moved from one parish to another. Contains many Irish individuals.
A name index connected to original images of passenger lists recording people travelling from Britain to destinations outside Europe. Records may detail a passenger's age or date of birth, residence, occupation, destination and more.
A full index of passenger lists for vessels arriving in the UK linked to original images. Does not include lists from vessels sailing from European ports. Early entries can be brief, but later entries may include dates of births, occupations, home addresses and more. Useful for documenting immigration.
An index to and images of documents recording over 1.65 million passengers who arrived in Victoria, Australia, including passengers whose voyage was paid for by others.
Details on over 600,000 non-British citizens arriving in England. Often includes age and professions. Useful for discerning the origin of immigrants.
Prescot Military Records
A history of a Lancashire division's WWI campaigns.
A record of the division's movements in WWI.
Lists of officers by rank, regiment and name.
A general history of the militia, including lists of officers from various periods.
Brief biographies of Officers of the Lancashire Militia, includes date of birth, appointments, promotions and other details.
Prescot Court & Legal Records
A name index linked to original images of over 250,000 Manchester prison records. Records contain details on the convict's birth, appearance, crime and more.
An index to and images of books dealing with legal matters and administration in the county. They cover legal decisions, costs of prosecution, filiation and maintenance orders, settlement orders, removal orders, transportation orders, sentences passed on criminals, setting highway rates, appointing officials and presentments for repairs to roads and bridges, poor relief, settlement, licences for various trades and more.
Abstracts of records that detail land conveyances.
Early legal records, largely covering serious cases refereed by lower courts. Many entries record transfers and disputes relating to land.
Transcripts of records created on the death of a direct tenant of the monarch to asses their Lancashire land-holdings. Contains much useful genealogical information.
Prescot Taxation Records
A tax list of wealthier Lancashire residents.
Two lay subsidies from the reigns of Henry III and Edward I.
An index to 11,000,000 parcels of land and property, connected to digital images of registers that record their owner, occupier, description, agricultural use, size and rateable value.
This vital collection details almost 1.2 million properties eligible for land tax. Records include the name of the landowner, occupier, amount assessed and sometimes the name and/or description of the property. It is a useful starting point for locating relevant estate records and establishing the succession of tenancies and freehold. Most records cover 1798, but some extend up to 1811.
An index linked to original images of registers recording apprenticeship indentures. Details are given on the trade and nature of apprenticeship. Many records list the parents of the apprentice.
Prescot Land & Property Records
Abstracts of records that detail land conveyances.
Early legal records, largely covering serious cases refereed by lower courts. Many entries record transfers and disputes relating to land.
Transcripts of records created on the death of a direct tenant of the monarch to asses their Lancashire land-holdings. Contains much useful genealogical information.
Transcripts of records that detail the lives and lands of Cheshire and Lancashire landholders.
Deeds from the Norris family of Speak.
Prescot Directories & Gazetteers
A directory of Warrington, St Helens, Prescot, Leigh, Newtown-le-Willows, Widnes, Runcorn, Frodsham, Altrincham, Bowdon, Knutsford, Middlewich, Northwich, Winsford and adjoining townships. Includes descriptions of each place, a list of their residents: their calling and abode.
A comprehensive place-by-place gazetteer, listing key contemporary and historical facts. Each place has a list of residents and businesses. Contains details on local schools, churches, government and other institutions.
Historical & topographical descriptions of Lancashire, supplemented with lists of the area's leading private, commercial and official persons.
A comprehensive place-by-place gazetteer, listing key historical and contemporary facts. Contains details on local schools, churches, government and other institutions. Also contains a list of residents and businesses for each place.
A directory of residents and businesses; with a description of each settlement, containing details on its history, public institutions, churches, postal services, governance and more.
Prescot Cemeteries
Photographs and descriptions of Lancashire's most illustrious church monuments, often featuring effigies, medieval inscriptions and heraldic devices.
Images of millions of pages from cemetery and crematoria registers, photographs of memorials, cemetery plans and more. Records can be search by a name index.
Photographs and transcriptions of millions of gravestones from cemeteries around the world.
Profiles of several hundred mausolea found in the British Isles.
Several thousand transcribed memorials remembering those connected with the nautical occupations.
Prescot Obituaries
The UKs largest repository of obituaries, containing millions of searchable notices.
A growing collection currently containing over 425,000 abstracts of obituaries with reference to the location of the full obituary.
A collection of 364 obituaries of Quakers from the British Isles. The volume was published in 1849 and includes obituaries of those who died in late 1847 through 1848.
This transcribed and searchable work by Sir William Musgrave contains 10,000s of brief obituaries. The work is a reference point for other works containing information on an individual.
A text index and digital images of all editions of a journal containing medical articles and obituaries of medical practitioners.
Prescot Histories & Books
Extracts from a vast array of historical documents giving details on thousands of individuals connected to the history of Lancashire.
A detailed history of the county's hundreds, parishes and religious houses.
A history of two Northern counties from the Germanic invasion to the Victorian period.
Photographs and images of churches in Lancashire.
A history of the Chartist Cooperative Land Society, which aimed to settle chartists on smallholdings. Also includes a list of over 5,000 chartist sympathizers in Lancashire.
Prescot School & Education Records
A name index connected to digital images of registers recording millions of children educated in schools operated by the National Society for Promoting Religious Education. Records contain a variety of information including genealogical details, education history, illnesses, exam result, fathers occupation and more.
A name index linked to original images of registers recording the education and careers of teachers in England & Wales.
A name index linked to original images of short biographies for over 120,000 Oxford University students. This is a particularly useful source for tracing the ancestry of the landed gentry.
A transcript of a vast scholarly work briefly chronicling the heritage, education and careers of over 150,000 Cambridge University students. This is a particularly useful source for tracing the ancestry of the landed gentry.
A searchable database containing over 90,000 note-form biographies for students of Cambridge University.
Prescot Occupation & Business Records
Abstracts of over 20,000 admissions to an insane asylum.
An introduction to smuggling on the west coast of Britain & the Isle of Man, with details of the act in various regions.
Articles on coal mining in Lancashire, including details of disasters and a list of mines.
An index to police officers mentioned in records held by Lancashire record Office.
A brief history of policing in the county from Saxon times. Includes extensive details on police uniforms.
Pedigrees & Family Trees Covering Prescot
A detailed history of the county's hundreds, parishes and religious houses.
Extensive and impeccably sourced genealogies for British, Irish & Manx royalty and nobility. Scroll down to 'British Isles' for relevant sections.
A searchable database of linked genealogies compiled from thousands of reputable and not-so-reputable sources. Contains many details on European gentry & nobility, but covers many countries outside Europe and people from all walks of life.
A searchable book, listing pedigrees of titled families and biographies of their members.
A book containing genealogies and biographies of Britain's titled families.
Prescot Royalty, Nobility & Heraldry Records
A detailed history of the county's hundreds, parishes and religious houses.
Transcripts of records that detail the lives and lands of Cheshire and Lancashire landholders.
Photographs and descriptions of Lancashire's most illustrious church monuments, often featuring effigies, medieval inscriptions and heraldic devices.
Extensive and impeccably sourced genealogies for British, Irish & Manx royalty and nobility. Scroll down to 'British Isles' for relevant sections.
A searchable database of linked genealogies compiled from thousands of reputable and not-so-reputable sources. Contains many details on European gentry & nobility, but covers many countries outside Europe and people from all walks of life.
Prescot Church Records
Prior to civil registration in 1837, the parish registers of Parr are the most common place to turn for details on births, marriages and deaths.
The parish registers of Sutton are a collection of books documenting baptisms, marriages and burials from 1840 to 1899.
The parish registers of Prescot are a collection of books documenting baptisms, marriages and burials from 1710 to 1936.
Digital images of registers that record baptisms, which typically occur shortly after birth; marriages and burials. The registers can be searched by name and can help establish links between individuals back to the 16th century.
A list of 16th century Anglican clergy in the Diocese of Chester.
Biographical Directories Covering Prescot
A searchable book, listing pedigrees of titled families and biographies of their members.
A book containing genealogies and biographies of Britain's titled families.
A book containing genealogies and biographies of Britain's titled families.
Brief biographies of Anglican clergy in the UK.
A directory containing lengthy biographies of noted British figures. The work took over two decades to compile. Biographies can be searched by name and are linked to images of the original publication.
Prescot Maps
Digital images of maps covering the county.
Detailed maps covering much of the UK. They depict forests, mountains, larger farms, roads, railroads, towns, and more.
Maps showing settlements, features and some buildings in mainland Britain.
An index to 11,000,000 parcels of land and property, connected to digital images of registers that record their owner, occupier, description, agricultural use, size and rateable value.
Maps of parishes in England, Scotland and Wales. They are useful in determining which parish records may be relevant to your research.
Prescot Reference Works
A beginner’s guide to researching ancestry in England.
Compiled in 1831, this book details the coverage and condition of parish registers in England & Wales.
A comprehensive guide to researching the history of buildings in the British Isles.
A service that provides advanced and custom surname maps for the British Isles and the US.
A dictionary of around 9,000 mottoes for British families who had right to bear arms.
Civil & Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction
Historical Description
Prescot is a moderate sized market town, agreeably situated on an eminence, so that its church spire, which is fifty-two yards high, may be seen from a very considerable distance. The church is a vicarage of considerable value.
The market-day is on Tuesday.
There are several cotton manufactories in this town; but the chief trade of the place is in the watch line. The watch tools made here have been noted for their excellence beyond the memory of the oldest watchmakers. The drawing pinion wire originated here, which is carried as far as to fifty drawings, and the wire is completely adapted for every size of pinions to drive the wheels of watches.
Small files are made here, of the very best quality, of a superior price, but well worth the money, from the goodness of the steel, and exactness of the cutting.
All these branches extend from Prescot to the surrounding villages, and all along the road to Liverpool, in which town the business seems finally to have centered. The tool and watch-movement makers are numerously scattered over the country from Prescot to Liverpool, occupying small farms in conjunction with their manufacturing business. All Europe has been supplied with the articles above mentioned, made in this neighbourhood.
The parish of Prescot is extensive, and contains various objects deserving of notice.
An amusement of the lower orders, emphatically styled Lancashire hunting, has been recently described as follows by a native of this part of the county. One morning whilst engaged in beating some woods for cocks, with my friends, the sound of a pack of hounds in full cry suddenly struck my ear. I reached the wood just in time to see this gallant pack break forth from another wood about a quarter of a mile from the place where I then stood, and expected to have seen a well mounted field of horsemen in the rear; judge then my disappointment, when, two minutes afterwards, I beheld a motley assembly of men and boys issuing forth from my friend’s wood, and spreading themselves in every direction over his enclosures. One single horseman at last made his appearance, and mounted upon a white horse—little indeed resembling Death on the pale horse—for the corporeal dimensions of this king of the company might fairly vie with those of the Friar Tucks of former days, or with those of many valuable members of a corporation, not twenty miles east of St. James’s.
I was approaching the heterogeneous assembly, ‘ when suddenly the hounds came to a check, and were at fault, and my friends coming up immediately, hailed the assembled multitude. Seeing three of us advancing towards them with guns, and attended by several beaters with their long sticks, these modern Nimrods immediately crowded round the "Duke of Limbs," their tutelar Saint on the white horse. My friend instantly ordered the hunt off his premises, and threatened the huntsman, as he was styled, with a legal remembrance, if ever a similar trespass should be again committed upon his property.
It was not without much difficulty that these weavers and their dogs were got rid of, knowing that they were upon the best ground in the neighbourhood for hares; they however at last retired to draw a wood at a short distance, and managed to run a hare across the forbidden land, which they lost, and instead of following the scent run it back again. It appears that in that neighbourhood it is customary for a number of weavers, however had the times may be, to club together and to keep a hound among them, so that it is the property of no one individual, and the tax upon it cannot be determined. They fix among themselves a grand day for a turn-out, on which they collect all the hounds or dogs of any kind that will run a hare, and form them into a pack; "every one heads his own dog," as they say, and laying one or two of the best dogs (who are equally accustomed to run trails) on the scent, they encourage the rest of the pack, whether curs, terriers, or lurchers, to give tongue, by shouting and howling. If they can prevail upon any person who keeps a horse to ride with them, as in the case I witnessed, they consider themselves fully sanctioned in their trespass. They always contrive, accidentally, no doubt, to run in a direction where they have ascertained that a hare is to be found; and if they enter any one’s woods or plantations, which they seldom omit, their knives are immediately in requisition, and nothing on earth is more handy than a young ash or a good holly stick to assist them in running, which they cut down without further ceremony, and carry off in triumph. They even enter gardens and shrubberies, and run through them with as much indifference as they cross a road; and, during the time they are out, set the country at defiance. Should any landholder attempt to shoot their dogs, he is told it is as much as his life is worth to touch one of them, and his woods and plantations are sure to receive a nightly visitation, and his trees to be cut down, so that he is obliged to sit down content with the least of two evils.
PRESCOT is a market and union town and head of a petty sessional division, and a township and parish, with a station on the Liverpool and Wigan branch of the London and North Western railway, 196 miles from London, 8 east from Liverpool, 10 north-north-west from Warrington, 25 west from Manchester, 4 south-west from St. Helens and 13 south-west from Wigan, in the South Ormskirk division of the county, hundred of West Derby, county court district of St. Helens, rural deanery of Prescot, archdeaconry of Warrington and diocese of Liverpool. The town, which stands on elevated ground, consists of the township of Prescot and a portion of the townships of Eccleston and Whiston, and is on the main road between Liverpool and Warrington. Prescot adopted the local Government Act, 1859,” March 1, 1887, but under the Local Government Act of 1894,” it is governed by an Urban District Council. The streets are lighted with the electric light by the British insulated and Helsby Cables Limited, and with gas by a private company; the water supply is obtained from the works of the Liverpool Corporation. A tramway, constructed in 1881 by a company between this place and St. Helens and through to Haydock, a distance in all of upwards of 8 miles, was purchased about 1897, by the St. Helens Corporation. The St. Helens and District Tramways Co. Limited, run a service of electric cars between these places, and there is now (1904) a service (by changing cars) between Liverpool and Bolton, and another between Prescot and St. Helens, via Rainhill. The church of St. Mary, occupying the site of the ancient church, is a spacious edifice of stone, in mixed styles, and was enlarged in 1610; it consists of chancel, nave, aisles and a western tower, with spire 156 feet high, erected in 1797, to replace an older steeple destroyed by lightning in 1795, and contains a clock and 8 bells hung in 1845: the black oak benches of the chancel date from 1636; the communion rails are also of black oak and of the same date, and were erected by order of Archbishop Laud: against the north wall is a quaint upright effigy of Sir John Ogle, one of the captains who defended Lathom House in 1664 against the Parliamentary forces, and was knighted at Oxford, 2 February, 1645; there is also a fine mural monument by R. Westmacott, jun. to William Atherton esq. d. 22 June, 1803: in 1878 a new organ was erected at a cost of about £1,000: the east window was presented by the late Miss Chorley in 1840, there are memorial windows to Mrs. Elizabeth Lockwood and to W. L. Evans esq. J.P. and a carved oak reredos, designed by Mr. J. E. Kempe and erected by Mrs. W. L. Evans, in memory of her husband: a list of the vicars of Prescot from 1448, is painted up in the chancel. A choir vestry was added in 1900: the church was restored in 1875—6, under the direction of Messrs. W. and G. Audsley, architects, of Liverpool, at a cost of £5,190, and affords 1,200 sittings. The register dates from the year 1555. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £500, with one acre of glebe and residence, in the gift of King’s College, Cambridge, and held since 1887 by the Rev. Harry Mitchell M. A. of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, hon. canon of Liverpool and rural dean of Prescot. The Catholic church, in Vicarage place, erected in 1856 and dedicated to Our Lady immaculate and St. Joseph, is a building of stone in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, transepts and a tower containing one bell: it will seat 600 persons. There are Wesleyan, Congregational, Welsh independent, Free Methodist and Free Gospel chapels.
From the time of the first introduction of watches into England, this town and its neighbourhood has been famous for the manufacture of watch movements, hour and minute hands and every description of watch-making tools, and it still supplies all the watch-making centres in England with these specialities; watch and clock files of excellent quality are made here. The Lancashire Watch Company Limited have erected a large factory on the most modern principles, and have introduced with success the making of watches in a complete form. The British insulated and Helsby Cables Limited are extensive makers of electric cables. The market day is Saturday, and a fair is held on the festival of Corpus Christi, until the following Saturday; fairs for cattle are also held on Shrove Tuesday and continued fortnightly until the 1st Tuesday in May. A public Lending Library was established in the town in the year 1854: at the suggestion and under the auspices of the 14th Earl of Derby K. G. and the late Sir Thomas B. Birch bart.; it was subsequently incorporated with the reading and recreation rooms in Vicarage place and removed to Derby street. The library now comprises about 1,400 volumes, but is at present (1904) closed. Lyme’s almshouses were erected in 1708 for 20 women, and endowed by Oliver Lyme esq. with an income of £570 yearly, each inmate receiving 4s. 6d. weekly in the winter and 4s. in the summer: there are others founded by the late Miss Atherton, of Manchester in 1861, in memory of her sister, Lucy Willis, for three married couples and for six old men: each couple receiving 83. 6d. weekly and each singleman 5s. 6d. The Rev. Samuel Sewell, a former vicar of Prescot, left a sum of money to provide for an almshouse for six old women, being natives of the township, who receive 3s. 6d. weekly. The public charities, consisting of various bequests, amount collectively to about £180 yearly, and are managed by trustees; these charities support the several almshouses and provide for the distribution, at stated intervals, of money, food, clothing and coals; the two most recent bequests are one of £100 by the late Miss Byron, of Prescot, the interest to be applied in clothing poor spinsters; and another in 1880 of £500 by the late Sir Thomas B. Birch bart. of the Hazels, for the relief of the indigent poor, which has been generally distributed in coals. The provost and scholars of King’s College, Cambridge, are lords of the manor, and hold, by their steward, a court leet annually on the feast of Corpus Christi; the copyholders of the manor of Prcscot have several important privileges, granted to them by Royal charter, the most important being exemption from service on any assize or session jury, or any other jury sitting outside the boundary of the manor; they are also exempt from all market fees for produce taken into the borough of Liverpool. The area of the civil parish and Urban District is 297 acres; rateable value, £27,689; the population in 1901 was 7,855.
The population of the Urban District wards in 3901 was:-East, 2,568; North, 2,050; South, 1,664; West, 1,673.
The population of the ecclesiastical parish of St. Mary’s is 7,989.
The petty sessional court days are held on the first & third Tuesdays in the month at the court room, Derby street, Prescot, at 11 o’clook & every thursday at Widnes: the following places are included in the petty sessional division:-Cronton, Ditton, Huyton, Knowsley, Presoot, Rainhill, Roby, Tarbock, Whiston & Widnes.
PRESCOT UNION
County of Lancaster & County Borough of St. Helens.
The guardians meet fortnightly on thursdays at the board room, Whiston.
Prescot union comprises the following places:-Bold, Cronton, Ditton, Eccleston, Hale, Halewood, Huyton with Roby, Knowsley, Little Woolton, Much Woolton, Prescot, Rainford, Rainhill, Speke, St. Helens, Tarbock, Whiston, Widnes & Windle. The area of the union is 53,084 acres; rateable value, for 1904, £827,310; population in 1901 was 153,648.
Workhouse, Whiston, a building of stone, built about 1840 & extended on various occasions, now holds 962 inmates; average number of inmates (1903—4) 960.
PLACES OF WORSHIP, with times of Services
St. Mary’s Church, Rev. Canon Harry Mitchell M.A. vicar; Rev. Frederick Graham Paterson B.A. curate; 10.30 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; daily, 10.30 a.m.
Mission Room, 6.30 p.m.; Wed. 8 p.m.
Our Lady immaculate & St. Joseph (Catholic), Vicarage place, Rev. Thomas Unsworth S.J. & Rev. Joseph Lightbound, priests; 8 & 10.30 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; daily, 7.30 & 8 a.m.; Wed. 7.30 p.m.
Congregational, Aspinall street, Rev. Thomas Hadfield M.A.; 10.30 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; Wed. 7.30 p.m.
Free Gospel (Zion), Kemble street; 10.30 a.m. & 6 p.m.; Tues. 8 p.m.
Free Gospel, Aspinall street; 10.30 a.m. & 2.30 & 6.30 p.m.; tues, Thur. & sat. 7.30 p.m.
Methodist Free Church, Victoria place; 10.30 a.m. & 6 p.m.; alternate Wed. 7.30 p.m.
Salvation Army Barracks, Albert street, nightly at 8 p.m.
Wesleyan (St. Helens & Prescot Circuit), Rev. John Horn; 10.30 a.m. & 6 p.m.; Tues. 7.15 p.m.
Welsh independent, Warrington road, 10.30 a.m. & 5.45 p.m.; Tues. 7 p.m.
SCHOOLS
The Grammar School, in High street, now a secondary school, has an income of about £100 yearly, arising from various benefactions, the principal being that of John Lyon, of Widnes, made in 1670 & consisting of an estate at Upton producing £60 yearly: under a new scheme of the Endowed School Commissioners in 1876 the management is now vested in a body of 11 governors, two of whom are ex-officio, five representative & four co-optative. Chairman, Rev. Canon H. Mitchell M.A. In accordance with a provision of the new scheme, a yearly sum of not less than £20, or more than £40, is to be applied in providing scholarships tenable in the upper school, or exhibitions tenable at such other places of instruction as the governors may think fit, a preference being given to such boys as have attended the schools for three years. There are now (1904) about 50 boys; John Schofield B.A. of the London. University, headmaster; John Llewellyn Thomas, science master.
Lancashire Education Committee, Elementary Education SubCommittee District No. 29.
District Clerk, Albert Fred Mann, Union offices, Prescot.
A School Attendance Committee appointed by Elementary Education Sub-Committee No. 29; Henry Cross, Derby street, clerk.
Attendance Officers:-James Hitchin, Rainhill; William Lloyd, Warrington road, Prescot; R. G. Waterman, Woolton.
Public Elementary Schools
Houghton street (girls & infants), built for 500 children; average attendance, 420.
Warrington road (mixed), built in 1877, for 454 & (infants) built in 1901, for 300 children; average attendance, 460 mixed & 236 infants.
Catholic (mixed), Yew Tree place, built in 1846. for 400 children; average attendance, 207.
Catholic (infants), Yew Tree place, built in 1876, for 120 children; average attendance, 109.
Most Common Surnames in Prescot
| Rank | Surname | Incidence | Frequency | Percent of Parent | Rank in West Derby Hundred |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Smith | 1,178 | 1:84 | 2.58% | 1 |
| 2 | Jones | 1,009 | 1:98 | 2.90% | 3 |
| 3 | Johnson | 800 | 1:124 | 5.28% | 9 |
| 4 | Taylor | 757 | 1:131 | 1.97% | 2 |
| 5 | Rigby | 696 | 1:143 | 11.34% | 65 |
| 6 | Davies | 654 | 1:152 | 4.89% | 12 |
| 7 | Harrison | 635 | 1:156 | 4.73% | 11 |
| 8 | Houghton | 589 | 1:168 | 13.72% | 121 |
| 9 | Brown | 567 | 1:175 | 3.25% | 6 |
| 10 | Glover | 470 | 1:211 | 18.86% | 247 |
| 11 | Williams | 461 | 1:215 | 2.52% | 5 |
| 12 | Roberts | 410 | 1:242 | 2.83% | 10 |
| 13 | Thompson | 409 | 1:243 | 3.10% | 13 |
| 14 | Wilson | 403 | 1:246 | 2.56% | 8 |
| 15 | Robinson | 399 | 1:249 | 2.43% | 7 |
| 16 | Atherton | 395 | 1:251 | 9.99% | 133 |
| 17 | Webster | 394 | 1:252 | 10.01% | 134 |
| 18 | Parr | 390 | 1:254 | 15.03% | 237 |
| 19 | Kelly | 387 | 1:256 | 4.50% | 31 |
| 20 | Hughes | 384 | 1:258 | 3.07% | 15 |
| 21 | Swift | 382 | 1:260 | 15.35% | 248 |
| 22 | Hill | 356 | 1:279 | 4.70% | 41 |
| 23 | Prescott | 353 | 1:281 | 13.83% | 241 |
| 24 | Woods | 351 | 1:283 | 6.87% | 86 |
| 25 | Marsh | 346 | 1:287 | 7.96% | 120 |
| 26 | Wright | 343 | 1:289 | 3.26% | 22 |
| 27 | Jackson | 337 | 1:294 | 1.84% | 4 |
| 27 | Owen | 337 | 1:294 | 7.02% | 99 |
| 29 | Hayes | 335 | 1:296 | 7.64% | 119 |
| 29 | Mercer | 335 | 1:296 | 11.02% | 202 |
| 29 | Lyon | 335 | 1:296 | 18.91% | 353 |
| 32 | Appleton | 324 | 1:306 | 24.85% | 490 |
| 33 | Evans | 323 | 1:307 | 3.49% | 26 |
| 34 | Ashton | 317 | 1:313 | 4.74% | 57 |
| 35 | Foster | 315 | 1:315 | 6.21% | 87 |
| 36 | Murphy | 312 | 1:318 | 4.60% | 55 |
| 37 | Naylor | 304 | 1:326 | 13.09% | 270 |
| 37 | Critchley | 304 | 1:326 | 16.70% | 348 |
| 39 | Platt | 302 | 1:328 | 8.61% | 166 |
| 40 | Burrows | 298 | 1:333 | 11.59% | 238 |
| 41 | Fairclough | 295 | 1:336 | 12.04% | 252 |
| 42 | Ashcroft | 287 | 1:346 | 9.05% | 193 |
| 43 | Pennington | 282 | 1:352 | 10.77% | 235 |
| 44 | Hunt | 278 | 1:357 | 7.27% | 141 |
| 45 | Molyneux | 277 | 1:358 | 16.81% | 396 |
| 46 | Mather | 274 | 1:362 | 7.42% | 149 |
| 47 | Leyland | 267 | 1:372 | 17.65% | 424 |
| 48 | Anders | 266 | 1:373 | 61.86% | 1,295 |
| 49 | Whitfield | 265 | 1:374 | 28.10% | 680 |
| 50 | Birchall | 262 | 1:379 | 12.24% | 296 |
| 51 | Rimmer | 260 | 1:382 | 5.89% | 118 |
| 52 | Wood | 257 | 1:386 | 1.96% | 14 |
| 53 | Yates | 252 | 1:394 | 2.74% | 27 |
| 54 | Dixon | 248 | 1:400 | 5.01% | 93 |
| 55 | Seddon | 246 | 1:403 | 5.91% | 124 |
| 56 | Hall | 245 | 1:405 | 2.07% | 17 |
| 57 | White | 243 | 1:408 | 4.48% | 78 |
| 58 | Green | 242 | 1:410 | 2.31% | 23 |
| 59 | Morris | 241 | 1:412 | 2.75% | 29 |
| 60 | Woodward | 226 | 1:439 | 13.66% | 392 |
| 61 | Hewitt | 225 | 1:441 | 9.30% | 257 |
| 62 | Howard | 222 | 1:447 | 3.32% | 58 |
| 62 | Twist | 222 | 1:447 | 26.75% | 756 |
| 64 | Cook | 219 | 1:453 | 5.39% | 126 |
| 65 | Shaw | 217 | 1:457 | 1.86% | 18 |
| 66 | Murray | 216 | 1:459 | 5.54% | 137 |
| 67 | Winstanley | 215 | 1:461 | 8.94% | 258 |
| 68 | Greenall | 209 | 1:475 | 28.36% | 841 |
| 69 | Burns | 207 | 1:479 | 4.21% | 95 |
| 69 | Case | 207 | 1:479 | 43.76% | 1,212 |
| 71 | Hunter | 206 | 1:482 | 7.55% | 226 |
| 72 | Thomas | 202 | 1:491 | 2.94% | 53 |
| 72 | Fairhurst | 202 | 1:491 | 10.40% | 325 |
| 74 | Walker | 201 | 1:494 | 1.67% | 16 |
| 74 | Lewis | 201 | 1:494 | 4.48% | 113 |
| 76 | Clarke | 199 | 1:498 | 3.33% | 66 |
| 77 | Sephton | 196 | 1:506 | 32.40% | 989 |
| 78 | Griffiths | 195 | 1:509 | 4.24% | 109 |
| 79 | Bridge | 193 | 1:514 | 6.82% | 219 |
| 80 | Tickle | 191 | 1:519 | 23.73% | 783 |
| 81 | Stott | 190 | 1:522 | 3.70% | 85 |
| 81 | Leather | 190 | 1:522 | 15.21% | 513 |
| 83 | Price | 187 | 1:530 | 5.07% | 150 |
| 84 | Boardman | 186 | 1:533 | 4.95% | 145 |
| 84 | Pye | 186 | 1:533 | 10.66% | 363 |
| 86 | Ellison | 184 | 1:539 | 7.32% | 245 |
| 87 | Beesley | 183 | 1:542 | 25.14% | 849 |
| 88 | Scott | 179 | 1:554 | 3.88% | 108 |
| 88 | Garner | 179 | 1:554 | 10.15% | 355 |
| 90 | Lawrenson | 177 | 1:560 | 24.89% | 872 |
| 91 | Gerrard | 175 | 1:567 | 9.27% | 333 |
| 92 | Kay | 174 | 1:570 | 2.38% | 46 |
| 93 | Collins | 170 | 1:584 | 4.85% | 168 |
| 93 | Moss | 170 | 1:584 | 4.00% | 122 |
| 93 | Knowles | 170 | 1:584 | 3.29% | 84 |
| 93 | Quinn | 170 | 1:584 | 7.27% | 268 |
| 97 | Ward | 166 | 1:598 | 2.28% | 47 |
| 98 | Edwards | 165 | 1:601 | 2.31% | 49 |
| 98 | Barton | 165 | 1:601 | 4.53% | 157 |
| 98 | Heyes | 165 | 1:601 | 7.61% | 290 |
| 101 | Lowe | 163 | 1:609 | 2.73% | 67 |
| 101 | Halsall | 163 | 1:609 | 11.52% | 451 |
| 103 | Burke | 161 | 1:616 | 5.36% | 203 |
| 103 | Barrow | 161 | 1:616 | 8.21% | 322 |
| 105 | Lee | 160 | 1:620 | 2.12% | 43 |
| 105 | Riley | 160 | 1:620 | 1.84% | 30 |
| 107 | Walsh | 158 | 1:628 | 1.87% | 32 |
| 108 | Cross | 157 | 1:632 | 4.84% | 187 |
| 109 | Holden | 156 | 1:636 | 1.71% | 28 |
| 109 | Bate | 156 | 1:636 | 14.58% | 604 |
| 111 | Spencer | 154 | 1:644 | 2.74% | 74 |
| 111 | Doyle | 154 | 1:644 | 5.32% | 214 |
| 113 | Turner | 149 | 1:666 | 1.28% | 19 |
| 113 | Wilkinson | 149 | 1:666 | 1.44% | 24 |
| 115 | Holland | 147 | 1:675 | 3.28% | 114 |
| 116 | Bradshaw | 146 | 1:679 | 3.11% | 104 |
| 117 | Fletcher | 143 | 1:694 | 1.98% | 48 |
| 117 | Ashall | 143 | 1:694 | 38.86% | 1,463 |
| 119 | Potter | 142 | 1:699 | 6.94% | 308 |
| 120 | Finney | 141 | 1:704 | 25.92% | 1,075 |
| 121 | Ball | 140 | 1:709 | 3.13% | 115 |
| 121 | Eden | 140 | 1:709 | 26.72% | 1,118 |
| 123 | Moore | 139 | 1:714 | 2.42% | 72 |
| 124 | Middlehurst | 137 | 1:724 | 38.38% | 1,496 |
| 125 | Martin | 136 | 1:729 | 2.50% | 77 |
| 126 | Roughley | 134 | 1:740 | 26.43% | 1,153 |
| 127 | Lea | 133 | 1:746 | 8.71% | 420 |
| 128 | Whittle | 131 | 1:757 | 3.49% | 146 |
| 128 | Makin | 131 | 1:757 | 7.93% | 394 |
| 130 | Connor | 128 | 1:775 | 4.40% | 211 |
| 131 | Burgess | 125 | 1:794 | 4.10% | 201 |
| 131 | Unsworth | 125 | 1:794 | 4.24% | 207 |
| 133 | Arnold | 124 | 1:800 | 10.99% | 566 |
| 133 | Chadwick | 124 | 1:800 | 1.60% | 40 |
| 135 | Bennett | 123 | 1:806 | 2.31% | 81 |
| 135 | Welsh | 123 | 1:806 | 6.25% | 320 |
| 135 | Gallagher | 123 | 1:806 | 6.85% | 349 |
| 135 | Dennett | 123 | 1:806 | 40.46% | 1,711 |
| 139 | Davis | 122 | 1:813 | 3.39% | 160 |
| 140 | Preston | 121 | 1:820 | 4.32% | 222 |
| 140 | Stanley | 121 | 1:820 | 7.48% | 404 |
| 140 | Bradbury | 121 | 1:820 | 6.27% | 327 |
| 140 | Leigh | 121 | 1:820 | 4.15% | 210 |
| 144 | Abbott | 120 | 1:827 | 7.26% | 393 |
| 144 | Almond | 120 | 1:827 | 6.40% | 337 |
| 146 | Grundy | 118 | 1:841 | 3.24% | 156 |
| 146 | Fildes | 118 | 1:841 | 23.18% | 1,143 |
| 148 | Barker | 117 | 1:848 | 2.37% | 94 |
| 148 | Forber | 117 | 1:848 | 76.97% | 2,676 |
| 150 | Ford | 116 | 1:855 | 5.21% | 277 |
| 150 | Ryan | 116 | 1:855 | 4.37% | 231 |
| 152 | Dean | 115 | 1:863 | 2.60% | 116 |
| 152 | Roscoe | 115 | 1:863 | 8.21% | 460 |
| 154 | Lloyd | 114 | 1:870 | 2.92% | 135 |
| 154 | Cunliffe | 114 | 1:870 | 3.65% | 197 |
| 156 | Campbell | 112 | 1:886 | 3.26% | 172 |
| 156 | Harper | 112 | 1:886 | 7.38% | 422 |
| 156 | Eccleston | 112 | 1:886 | 13.95% | 786 |
| 156 | Bold | 112 | 1:886 | 27.65% | 1,379 |
| 160 | Lynch | 111 | 1:894 | 5.45% | 310 |
| 160 | Moran | 111 | 1:894 | 4.70% | 261 |
| 160 | Gleave | 111 | 1:894 | 14.21% | 804 |
| 160 | Dagnall | 111 | 1:894 | 24.29% | 1,239 |
| 164 | Gee | 110 | 1:902 | 6.73% | 399 |
| 164 | Clare | 110 | 1:902 | 8.05% | 469 |
| 166 | Saunders | 109 | 1:910 | 10.18% | 603 |
| 166 | Cunningham | 109 | 1:910 | 5.24% | 305 |
| 166 | Littler | 109 | 1:910 | 13.76% | 799 |
| 166 | Brownbill | 109 | 1:910 | 36.33% | 1,724 |
| 170 | Bailey | 108 | 1:918 | 2.23% | 96 |
| 170 | Byron | 108 | 1:918 | 29.75% | 1,474 |
| 170 | Friar | 108 | 1:918 | 80.60% | 2,929 |
| 173 | Travis | 107 | 1:927 | 5.12% | 302 |
| 173 | Highcock | 107 | 1:927 | 80.45% | 2,940 |
| 175 | Wilcock | 106 | 1:936 | 5.30% | 315 |
| 176 | Young | 105 | 1:945 | 2.92% | 161 |
| 176 | Mills | 105 | 1:945 | 1.61% | 59 |
| 178 | Lightfoot | 104 | 1:954 | 20.19% | 1,134 |
| 178 | Nolan | 104 | 1:954 | 5.46% | 332 |
| 178 | Bibby | 104 | 1:954 | 4.74% | 285 |
| 178 | Pickavance | 104 | 1:954 | 51.74% | 2,243 |
| 182 | McDonald | 103 | 1:963 | 2.65% | 138 |
| 182 | Cox | 103 | 1:963 | 5.14% | 314 |
| 182 | Heaton | 103 | 1:963 | 2.81% | 154 |
| 182 | Hulme | 103 | 1:963 | 3.28% | 195 |
| 182 | Topping | 103 | 1:963 | 8.41% | 525 |
| 187 | Hatton | 102 | 1:973 | 8.27% | 522 |
| 187 | Vose | 102 | 1:973 | 25.76% | 1,396 |
| 189 | Barnes | 101 | 1:982 | 1.44% | 50 |
| 189 | Berry | 101 | 1:982 | 1.56% | 60 |
| 189 | Carroll | 101 | 1:982 | 4.55% | 281 |
| 189 | Pilkington | 101 | 1:982 | 2.44% | 125 |
| 193 | Clark | 99 | 1:1,002 | 2.00% | 92 |
| 193 | Banks | 99 | 1:1,002 | 2.97% | 181 |
| 193 | Daniels | 99 | 1:1,002 | 6.81% | 441 |
| 193 | Dolan | 99 | 1:1,002 | 11.33% | 717 |
| 197 | Carter | 98 | 1:1,012 | 1.94% | 88 |
| 197 | Hurst | 98 | 1:1,012 | 2.70% | 158 |
| 197 | Briers | 98 | 1:1,012 | 44.95% | 2,122 |
| 200 | Dutton | 97 | 1:1,023 | 6.10% | 409 |