Bury St John, Lancashire Genealogy

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Bury St John

Guide to Bury St John, Lancashire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: chapelry register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Bury St John, Lancashire
Type	Ecclesiastical Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
Hundred	Blackburn; Salford
County	Lancashire, England Genealogy
Poor Law Union	Bury
Registration District	Bury; Haslingden
Records begin
Parish registers: 1837
Bishop's Transcripts: 1769
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery	Bury
Diocese	Manchester
Province	York
Legal Jurisdictions
Probate Court	Court of the Bishop of Chester (Episcopal Consistory)
Location of Archive
Lancashire Archives

Parish History

Bury (St John) was created as a chapelry of ease in the year 1770 from Bury St Mary Ancient Parish. The township is SE. Lancashire, 11 miles NW. of Manchester and 195 NW. of London by rail. Bury is connected by canal with Manchester and Bolton.

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.

Church records

Online 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

Church of England

Bury St. John's chapelry and its sister chapelries' registers of christenings, marriages and burials, along with those of the ancient parish of Bury St. Mary to which they were attached, have been mostly transcribed and are displayed online at the following web sites and ranges of years:

FS = FamilySearch.org

LOPC = Lancashire Online Parish Clerk project

FMP = findmypast

LBMD = LancashireBMD.org.uk

AC = Ancestry.co.uk

FREG = FreeReg

BURY ST JOHN Chapelry  (1770) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
AC	1821-1906		1821-1874
FS	1785-1829, 1846-1852	None	1785-1812, 1819-1867
LOPC	1770-1859, 1879-1906	None	1784-1855
LBMD	None	1861-1900	None
FREG	1820-1826	None	1843-1855
BURY ST MARY PARISH (1590) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	1590-1909	1591-1935	1785-1976
LOPC	1699-1844	1591-1849, 1860-1861	1699-1728, 1739-1748, 1759-1837
LBMD	None	1837-1900	None
FMP	None	1598-1760	None
AC	1590-1698	1590-1698	1590-1698
FREG	1590-1698, 1817-1846	1591-1646	1591-1699
BURY ST PAUL Chapelry  (1841) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	1841-1868	1877-1909	1843-1853, 1862-1868
LOPC	None	None	None
LBMD	None	1851-1900	None
BURY HOLY TRINITY Chapelry  (1865) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	1865-1881	1866-1880	None
LOPC	None	None	None
LBMD	None	1866-1900	None
EDENFIELD Chapelry  (1728) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	1728-1771, 1798-1845, 1857-1877	None	1774-1820
LOPC	1731-1845, 1857-1877	None	1774-1845, 1856-1877
LBMD	None	1838-2007	1837-1861
ELTON ALL SAINTS Chapelry  (1837) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	1858-1867	None	1844-1846, 1858-1867
LOPC	None	None	None
LBMD	1837-1889	1844-1900	1837-1888
HEYWOOD ST LUKE Chapelry  (1731) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	1731-1910	1837-1895	1765-1870
LOPC	1829-1842	None	None
LBMD	1837-1940	1837-1925	1837-1974
HEYWOOD ST JAMES Chapelry  (1841) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	None	None	None
LOPC	None	None	None
LBMD	None	1841-1925	None
HOLCOMBE EMMANUEL Chapelry  (1730) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	1797-1860	1850-1860	1853-1860
LOPC	1730-1860	1850-1860	1730-1902
LBMD	1837-1895	1837-1900	1837-1890
FREG	None	None	1846-1852
RAMSBOTTOM ST PAUL Chapelry  (1850) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	1850-1854	None	1851-1854
LOPC	None	None	None
LBMD	1899-1901	1850-1900	None
TOTTINGTON ST ANNE Chapelry  (1799) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	1752-1754, 1770-1862	None	1791-1862
LOPC	1799-1838	None	1799-1838
LBMD	1837-1910	1862-1900	1837-1885
AC	1799-1837	None	1799-1837
UNSWORTH ST GEORGE Chapelry  (1730) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	1730-1910	None	None
LOPC	1841-1891	None	None
LBMD	None	1844-1900	None
WALMERSLEY CUM SHUTTLEWORTH CHRIST CHURCH Chapelry  (1785) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	1785-1812, 1838-1842, 1860-1864	1785-1812	1785-1812, 1838-1841, 1858
LOPC	None	None	None
LBMD	1837-1898	1852-1900	1837-1877
WATERFOOT ST JAMES Chapelry  (1860) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
AC	1859-1914	1866-1930
FS	1860-1907	1866-1929	None
LBMD	None	1866-1996	None

For a full list of all those chapels surrounding Bury St. John and comprising the whole ancient parish of Bury St. Mary to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the BURY ST MARY PARISH page.

Original Records in Archives

Original parish and chapelry registers are held in the Manchester Archives and Studies centre in Manchester Central Library, St Peter's Square, Manchester, M2 2PD. Also, microfilm copies of these original registers are held at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, UT, USA. See the Family History Library online Catalog for further details about their holdings.

Non-Conformist Churches

• 1647-1996 England, Lancashire Non-conformist Church Records, 1647-1996 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)

Census records

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.

Genealogy

Hirst, Rita. Holt or Tabernacle.  Family History and Family History chart of Tabernacle or Holt in Bury, Lancashire. Article covers years 1600-1834 with the following surnames; Barlow, Harrison, Hargraves, Showell, Drovin, Burkett, Johnston, and is found in Lancashire Family History and Heraldry Soc. vol. 17 no.3. page 25-3, held at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City 942.72 B2r

Hornby, Michael J. K. Direct Descendants of James Hornby.  History, photo and family tree of James Hornby and Alice Mills dated from 1799-1995 with part of the family emigrating to Canada. Artice in Lancashire Family History and Heraldry Soc. vol. 18, no.2, pages 23-25, FHL Ref 942.72 B2r

Todd, Andrew A. Lowe of Heaton and Hinds. History and Family tree of Lowe of Heaton and Elton starting with Robert Lowe marrying 1. Alice Yates, and 2. Hannah Walls, dating 1784-1860, with the following surnames, Barlow, Wade, Nuttall, Garside, Settle, Blomley, Griffiths, Ogden, Blomley, Rushton, Pemberton. Article in The Lancashire Family History and Heraldry Society Magazine. vol.5,no.3,pages16-20, FHL Ref 942.72 B2r

Poor Law Unions

Bury Poor Law Union, Lancashire

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

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Websites

British History Online Bury

Bury on GENUKI

Family History Library