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St Paul Independent, Wigan
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History

The original St Paul’s Chapel was built in 1769 on Standishgate and was the first Orthodox Presbyterian place of worship in the whole of the County Palatine. The original church was replaced by one opened 26 Aug 1903, but this has now been converted into apartments.

 
The Congregational church on Standishgate opened in 1903 to replace the original St Paul’s Chapel. Now converted to appartments
The Congregational church on Standishgate opened in 1903 to replace the original St Paul’s Chapel. Now converted to appartments
 
Early to Mid-Victorian school rooms built adjacent to the original St Paul’s Chapel
Early to Mid-Victorian school rooms built adjacent to the original St Paul’s Chapel

Ministers
(from ‘St Pauls Congregational Church, Standishgate’ By J.W. Asson)

1783-1791   Rev John Johnson
1791-1776    Rev William Roby
1776   Rev James Kirby
1796-1803   Rev Mr Fleming
1803-1809   Rev Jas. Parkin
1810-1832   Rev Alex Steele
1833-1839   Rev Thomas Atkin
1839-1870   Rev William Roaf
1871-1874   Rev F G Collier
1874   Rev R D Hutchinson
1874-1876   Rev J Emmott Jones
1876-1883   Rev H Campbell M. A.
1883-1894   Rev Thos. Wilkinson
1894-1898   Rev W J Dickson
1898-1906   Rev D C Tinker
1907-1915   Rev J H Robinson
1915-1917   
1917-1921   Rev Everard Bagueley
1921-1923   
1923-1943   Rev John A Banks
1944-1950   Rev Gilbert Briggs
1950-1952   
1952 -    Rev A H Tebbet M. A. B. D.

Online Registers

On the 9 September 1837, Thomas Atkin the Minister of St Pauls Chapel, Standishgate, Wigan in the County of Lancaster, completed a questionnaire for the ‘Commissioners for enquiring into the State, Custody and Authenticity of Non-parochial Registers’. He wrote that St Paul’s was of Independent denomination, was founded about 1777, and named Richard Stuart and Peter Latham as Deacons. With respect to the registers he stated that the baptism registers had been kept with regularity since the opening of the chapel in 1787 [sic] to 1798, and from 1809 to 1837, but ‘great negligence’ from 1798-1809. Many entries from this negligent period are missing baptism dates have been transcribed into the register from slips of paper in the 1830s. The Revd. Atkin also recorded that a burial register had been kept up till 1797 and from 1827, but not in the intervening period.

The baptism and birth records presented here have been extracted from an LDS film of the St Paul’s registers now housed in the Public Record Office London.

The registers originally had no page numbers, but were stamped when archived (two leaves per page): these are the page numbers referred to here (page 1-3 are the questionnaire). The first part of the baptism register runs consecutively until page 90 and then changes to burials through page 96, the baptisms start again on page 97 and continue through page 101 ending on 13 May 1837.

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