Oldham St Mary, Lancashire Genealogy
England 
Lancashire Lancashire Parishes Oldham St Mary
Guide to Oldham St Mary, Lancashire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: chapelry register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Oldham St Mary, Lancashire | |
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| Type | Ecclesiastical Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Salford |
| County | Lancashire |
| Poor Law Union | Oldham |
| Registration District | Oldham |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1796 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1604 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Rochdale |
| Diocese | Manchester |
| Province | York |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Bishop of Chester (Episcopal Consistory) |
| Location of Archive | |
| Lancashire Record Office | |
Contents
Chapel History[edit | edit source]
OLDHAM, an enfranchised borough, a parochial chapelry with several attached chapelries, and the head of a union, in the parish of Prestwich, hundred of Salford, S. division of the county of Lancaster, 7 miles northeast by east of Manchester. The ancient chapel was dedicated to St. Mary. Other towns and places in the parish include: Oldham below Town, Westwood, Mumps, Greenacres, Oldham above Town, Clarkesfield, Chadderton, and Moor. There were places of worship for Baptists, the Society of Friends, Independents, Kilhamites, Moravians, Primitive and Wesleyan Methodists, Unitarians, and Roman Catholics.[1]
While Oldham St Mary was a mere chapelry, however it was a parochial chapelry and as such it held some ecclesiastical jurisdiction over several additional chapelries. These churches included:
- Oldham St Peter's Chapel - 1765
- Oldham St James - 1829
- Hollinwood - 1769
- Royton - 1758
- Shaw - 1723
- Chadderton St John - 1844
- Chadderton St Matthew - 1857
- Coldhurst - 1844
- East Crompton - 1847
- Glodwick Christ Church - 1844
- Waterhead - 1845
- Werneth - 1847
There were additional, more modern built chapels within Oldham as well. See John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, to determine their names.[2]
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
Church Records[edit | edit source]
Online 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
Church of England
Oldham St Mary chapelry's registers of christenings, marriages and burials, along with those of the ancient parish of Prestwich to which it is 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 |
| OLDHAM ST MARY Chapelry (1558) Indexes | |||||
| Baptisms | Marriages | Burials | |||
| AC | 1558-1812 | 1558-1812 | 1558-1812 | ||
| AC | 1813-1858 | 1754-1845 | 1813-1932 | ||
| FS | 1558-1896 | 1558-1816 | 1779-1798 | ||
| LOPC | 1766-1850, 1866-1872 | 1744-1843 | 1726-1748 | ||
| LBMD | 1961-1974 | 1837-1974 | |||
| FMP | 1598-1818 | 1558-1932 | |||
| PRESTWICH ST MARY (ancient parish containing OLDHAM ST MARY Chapelry) | |||||
| Baptisms | Marriages | Burials | |||
| FS | 1603-1910 | 1600-1935 | 1712-1921 | ||
| LOPC | 1603-1936 | 1603-1895 | 1603-1921 | ||
| LBMD | 1837-1902 | 1837-1925 | 1837-1877 | ||
| FMP | None | 1603-1712 | None | ||
| AC | 1603-1711 | 1603-1711 | 1603-1711 | ||
For a full list of all those chapels surrounding Oldham St Mary and comprising the whole ancient parish of Prestwich to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the PRESTWICH ST MARY PARISH page.
Parish registers for St Mary's Church (Oldham, Lancashire), 1558-1968 Microreproduction of original records housed at the Central Library, Oldham.
St. Mary's is the parish church of Oldham.
Includes some records for the chapelries of Shaw and Royton.
Manchester Archives Central Library call nos.: L 73/2/10-22, L 73/3/1, L 73/4/1-2; L 185/DRO2-6, 14.
| Content |
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| Baptisms, marriages and burials, 1660-1725 (registers in very poor condition) |
FHL BRITISH Film 1656073 |
| Marriages, 1744-1809 |
FHL BRITISH Film 1656117 |
| Marriages, 1809-1828 |
FHL BRITISH Film 1656118 |
| Marriages, 1828-1837 |
FHL BRITISH Film 1656119 |
| Marriages, 1837-1843 |
FHL BRITISH Film 1656120 |
| Marriages, 1843-1848 |
FHL BRITISH Film 1656121 |
| Marriages, 1848-1854 |
FHL BRITISH Film 1656156 |
| Marriages, 1854-1861 |
FHL BRITISH Film 1656157 |
| Marriages, 1861-1873 |
FHL BRITISH Film 1656158 |
| Marriages, 1873-1882. Item 4 is a duplicate of item 3, both ending with February, 1882 marriages. |
FHL BRITISH Film 1656159 Items 1 - 4 |
| Marriages, 1884-1903 |
FHL BRITISH Film 1656160 |
| Baptisms, 1726-1812; Baptisms for Shaw, 1747-1767; Baptisms for Royton, 1757-1758. |
FHL BRITISH Film 1656161 |
| Baptisms, 1813-1838 |
FHL BRITISH Film 1656162 |
| Baptisms, 1822-1838, including some from St. James' Church, 1834-1836 (another filming). Marriages, 1816-1831 (another filming). |
FHL BRITISH Film 2148002 |
| Baptisms, 1838-1866 |
FHL BRITISH Film 1656163 |
| Baptisms, 1866-1881 |
FHL BRITISH Film 1656223 |
| Baptisms, 1881-1894 |
FHL BRITISH Film 1656224 |
| Baptisms, 1894-1902; Burials, 1726-1812; Burials for Shaw, 1748-1770; Burials for Royton, 1758; Burials for St. Peter's, 1768-1770. |
FHL BRITISH Film 1656225 |
| Burials, 1813-1833 |
FHL BRITISH Film 1656226 |
| Burials, 1833-1848 |
FHL BRITISH Film 1656227 |
| Burials, 1848-1932 (very few burials after 1855); Baptisms and burials, 1558-1611; Marriages, 1598-1611, 1633-1634; Baptisms, 1624-1631; Burials, 1623-1631; Marriages, 1627-1631 (these last 3 in very poor condition); Baptisms, marriages and burials, 1633-1660; Baptisms for Shaw chapelry, 1653-1660. |
FHL BRITISH Film 1656228 |
| Marriages, 1903-1920 |
FHL BRITISH Film 1656521 Items 4-5 |
| Marriages, 1920-1930 |
FHL BRITISH Film 1656522 Item 1 |
| Banns of marriages, 1827-1874. |
FHL BRITISH Film 2358253 |
| Banns of marriages, 1787-1818 (includes marriage licenses, 1789-1802), 1874-1921. |
FHL BRITISH Film 2358254 |
Census Records[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
Probate records
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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.
Taxation[edit | edit source]
- 1541 - 1541 Subsidy of Oldom (p. 145)[3]
- 1622 - 1622 Subsidy of Ouldhame (p. 157)[3]
Maps and Gazetteers
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Websites[edit | edit source]
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References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England(1848), pp. 472-476. Date accessed 22 October 2013
- ↑ John M. Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales. Published Edinburgh 1870.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 J.P. Earwaker, Three Lancashire Subsidy Rolls, viz., for the Hundred of Salford, 1541, the Hundred of Salford, 1622 and the Hundred of Leyland, 1628, Together with a Recusant Roll for the Hundred of Leyland, in 1628 (London: Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 1885). Digital version at FamilySearch Digital Library.
