Ancoats All Souls, Lancashire Genealogy
Guide to Ancoats All Souls, Lancashire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
Ancoats All Souls, Lancashire | |
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Type | Ecclesiastical Parish |
Civil Jurisdictions | |
Hundred | Salford |
County | Lancashire, England Genealogy |
Poor Law Union | Manchester |
Registration District | Ashton under Lyne; Chorlton; Manchester; Salford |
Records begin | |
Parish registers: 1840 | |
Bishop's Transcripts: 1763 | |
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
Rural Deanery | Manchester |
Diocese | Manchester |
Province | York |
Legal Jurisdictions | |
Probate Court | Court of the Bishop of Chester (Episcopal Consistory) |
Location of Archive | |
Lancashire Archives | |
Contents
Chapelry History[edit | edit source]
ANCOATS All Souls, was a "district church, erected in Everystreet, Ancoats, in 1839".[1] It was created from, and lying within the boundaries of Manchester, Lancashire Genealogy. Founded: 1840 Closed: 1984. Chapelry registers may be found in Manchester St Ann, Lancashire Genealogy parish.
By the year 1880, Ancoats township had at least six chapelries with chapels built within it, and all residing within the parish boundary of, and under the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of Manchester Cathedral (Our Lady, St George & St Denys). To see these chapelries and the years in when they began in operation, scroll down to "Church Records" (Hint: Click the links to view ranges of years with online data available for these chapelry registers of baptisms, marriages and burials.)
Resources[edit | edit source]
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.
Online index of Lancashire Births, Marriages and Deaths Lancashire BMD
Lancashire Online Parish Clerks[edit | edit source]
An extremely useful resource for research in Lancashire Parishes http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/
for both the post-civil registration time period (after 1837) and especially for finding ancestry in the pre-1837 time period.
Church records[edit | edit source]
- 1538 - 1910 England, Lancashire, Parish Registers 1538-1910 at FamilySearch — index
- 1603 - 1910 England, Lancashire, Cheshire, Yorkshire, Parish Registers, 1603-1910 at FamilySearch — index and images
Online Records
Ancoats All Souls Chapelry and all its additional contemporary chapelries (5), possessed chapelry registers of baptisms, marriages and burials. These have been indexed or transcribed and are available online at no cost, as follows:
FS =FamilySearch.org | |||||
LOPC = Lancashire Online Parish Clerk | |||||
FMP = findmypast | |||||
LBMD = Lancashire BMD | |||||
AC = Ancestry.co.uk |
ANCOATS CHRIST CHURCH Chapelry (1822) Indexes - a dissenters chapel after 1857 | |||||||
Baptisms | Marriages | Burials | |||||
LBMD | 1837-1917 | None | 1837-1882 | ||||
ANCOATS ALL SOULS Chapelry (1840) Indexes (see also St Ann Manchester pre-1850) | |||||||
Baptisms | Marriages | Burials | |||||
FS | 1837-1908 | 1846-1928 | None | ||||
LOPC | 1840-1876 | None | None | ||||
LBMD | 1840-1917 | 1846-1981 | 1837-1882 | ||||
ANCOATS ST ANDREWS Chapelry (1831) Indexes | |||||||
Baptisms | Marriages | Burials | |||||
FS | 1827-1910 | 1814-1930 - part. | 1831-1855 | ||||
LOPC | 1831-1860 | None | None | ||||
LBMD | 1837-1917 | 1838-1912 | 1837-1882 | ||||
ANCOATS ST JAMES THE LESS Chapelry (1867) Indexes | |||||||
Baptisms | Marriages | Burials | |||||
FS | 1874-1920 - part. | 1871-1930 - part. | None Extant | ||||
LOPC | None | None | None | ||||
LBMD | 1867-1917 | 1871-1920 | 1867-1882 | ||||
ANCOATS ST JUDE Chapelry (1837) Indexes | |||||||
Baptisms | Marriages | Burials | |||||
FS | 1837-1910 | 1856-1930 | None Extant | ||||
LOPC | None | None | None | ||||
LBMD | 1837-1917 | 1849-1954 | 1837-1882 | ||||
ANCOATS ST MARTIN Chapelry (1865) Indexes | |||||||
Baptisms | Marriages | Burials | |||||
FS | 1866-1906 | 1875-1906 | None | ||||
LOPC | None | None | None | ||||
LBMD | 1865-1917 | 1874-1906 | 1865-1882 | ||||
ANCOATS ST PETER Chapelry (1860) - see under MANCHESTER ST PETER | |||||||
MANCHESTER ST ANN Chapelry (1736) Indexes | |||||||
Baptisms | Marriages | Burials | |||||
FS | 1736-1849 | 1737-1754 | 1736-1854 | ||||
LOPC | 1806-1849 | None | 1777-1854 | ||||
FREG | None | None | 1813-1854 | ||||
LBMD | 1837-1881 | http://lancashirebmd.org.uk/marriagesearch.php 1838-1976] | 1837-1881 |
Ancoats All Souls Chapelry is one of about 150 chapels comprising the whole of Manchester Parish's boundary (by 1880). The 'mother' or ancient parish of Manchester City is Manchester St Mary (Our Lady), St George and St Denys (The Cathedral). See below:
MANCHESTER CATHEDRAL - OUR LADY, ST GEORGE AND ST DENYS (1573) Indexes | |||||||||||
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Baptisms | Marriages | Burials | ||||||||
FS | 1573-1872 | 1573-1889 | None | ||||||||
LOPC | 1573-1616;1777-1837 | 1573-1616;1782-1836 - part. yrs | 1573-1616;1792-1836 - part. yrs | ||||||||
LBMD | 1837-1881 | 1837-1946 | 1837-1881 | ||||||||
AC | 1573-1616 | 1573-1616 | 1573-1616 |
If you do not locate your ancestor in the above church registers, and before researching in any other Lancashire parish, you must include a thorough search into all of Manchester City's attached chapelries! Unfortunately, Manchester Cathedral (the parish) is England's largest parish. For a full list of all chapelries and churches in Manchester City, see Manchester, Lancashire Genealogy (scroll down to "Church Records").
Original Records
Bishop's transcripts for All Soul's Church, Manchester, 1763-1847 Microreproduction of original manuscripts housed at the Lancashire Record Office, Preston. FamilySearch has microfilmed the original Bishop's transcripts, 1763, 1810-1845 / Church of England. St. Ann's Church (Manchester).
The church became known as All Soul's Ancoats in 1850. Ancoats is a suburb within Manchester.
Lancashire Record Office: DRM/2/186/4
Content |
Film |
Baptisms only, 1840-1845. |
FHL BRITISH Film 1545619 Item 2 |
Census records[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]
Probate records[edit | edit source]
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Lancashire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.
Maps and Gazetteers[edit | edit source]
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 221-247. Adapted. Date accessed: 20 September 2012
Henry Mantell's Article explains the influence of the Dean and Fellows of the Collegiate church on Manchester Parish records.