Archives and libraries

Local studies information is held at Wigan library.

Cemeteries

• St David, Haigh Rd, Church of England

Census

Details about the census records, and indexes for Haigh.

Church History

Church Records

• St David, Haigh Rd, Church of England

• Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, Haigh Rd, Roman Catholic

You can also perform a more selective search for churches in the Haigh area that are recorded in the GENUKI church database. This will also help identify churches in nearby townships and/or parishes. You also have the option to see the location of the churches marked marked on a map.

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Civil Registration

The Register Office covering the Haigh area is Wigan and Leigh.

Directories

"HAIGH is a township two miles north of Wigan, in that parish, and is one of the most interesting townships therein. Great quantities of cannel coal (mentioned above) is found here, and at Haigh-hall, the beautiful seat of the Earl of Balcarres & Baron Wigan, a summer house is made of it, said to have stood more than a hundred years, and in which ladies may seat themselves without danger to the purity of their most delicate vestures. Various toys are made from cannel, and when formed into boxes, plates, &c. it is susceptible of a polish as fine as black marble. This township contained, by the its census, 1,300 inhabitants."

Royal National and Commercial Directory and Topography of the county of Lancashire - Pigot & Co. 1828

Gazetteers

Ask for the gazetteer for a calculation of the distance from Haigh to another place.

Historical Geography

In 1835 Haigh was a township in the parish of Wigan.

Information about boundaries and administrative areas is available from A Vision of Britain through time.

Maps

View maps of Haigh and places within its boundaries.

Poor Houses, Poor law etc.

Poor Law records held at Wigan Archives.

Probate Records

For probate purposes prior to 1858, Haigh was in the Archdeaconry of Chester, in the Diocese of Chester. The original Lancashire wills for the Archdeaconry of Chester are held at the Lancashire Record Office.