(See Hundreds And Parishes for background of Parish organisation)
St Thomas The Martyr is an ancient church in Upholland established by 1307, used by ancestors when they lived in the rural areas around Upholland and Skelmersdale.
St Thomas The Martyr was originally the church of the Benedictine Priory at Upholland, later becoming a Chapel Of Ease for Wigan Parish Church in 1536 (after dissolution of the monasteries) and then became a Parish Church in its own right in 1882.
For more details see Lancashire Past, A Church Near You, Wikipedia, Lancashire Online Parish Clerks.
The church was used by descendants of Henry and Ellen Mawdsley, John and Ann Barton and John and Sarah Nixon. There are several ancestor gravestones in the graveyard.
The church is still active.
Norman And Marian Barton Family Tree 