Ancoats All Souls, Lancashire Genealogy

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Ancoats All Souls

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
Type	Ecclesiastical Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
Hundred	Salford
County	Lancashire
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 Record Office

Chapelry History

ANCOATS All Souls, was a "district church, erected in Everystreet, Ancoats, in 1839". It was created from, and lying within the boundaries of Manchester Our Lady, St George and St Denys, Lancashire. Founded: 1840 Closed: 1984. Chapelry registers may be found in Manchester St Ann, Lancashire 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

Civil Registration

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

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

• 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	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
	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

Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. 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

Manchester Poor Law Union

Probate records

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

Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.

• England Jurisdictions 1851
• Vision of Britain

Websites

• Ancoats All Souls on GENUKI

References

Henry Mantell's Article explains the influence of the Dean and Fellows of the Collegiate church on Manchester Parish records.

Family History Library