Radcliffe St Mary, Lancashire Genealogy

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Guide to Radcliffe St Mary, Lancashire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

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Parish History

RADCLIFFE St Mary [1557], a parish, in the union of Bury, hundred of Salford, S. division of Lancashire, 8 miles north by northwest of Manchester. The parish is one of the smallest in the county, and has no dependent townships. The church, built at different periods, is in various styles of architecture, with a low tower, and has a curious window, called "the east window in the Sun chapel:" the chancel was restored in 1845. There are a place of worship for Wesleyans, an excellent national school, and a large Sunday school adjacent to the church of Radcliffe-Bridge.

A separate chapel was erected in 1819, called St. Thomas's district at Radcliffe-Bridge.

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

Radcliffe St. Mary parish registers and those registers of all of its smaller chapelries lying within its boundaries have been mostly transcribed and are displayed online at the following websites and ranges of years:

AC = Ancestry.co.uk (£)

FMP = findmypast (£)

FREG = FreeReg

FS = FamilySearch.org

LBMD = LancashireBMD.org.uk

LOPC = Lancashire Online Parish Clerk

RADCLIFFE ST MARY PARISH (1557) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
AC	1559-1812	1559-1812	1559-1812
AC	1813-1915	1761-1930	1813-1925
FS	1557-1916	1560-1874	1756-1925
LOPC	1557-1673, 1680-1783, 1813-1851	1560-1770, 1831-1897	1558-1783, 1813-1833, 1841-1925
LBMD	1837-1900	1837-1900	1837-1879
FMP	None	1560-1766	None
AC	1557-1783	1560-1761	1557-1783
FREG	1828-1851	1831-1864	1841-1914
RADCLIFFE ST ANDREW Chapelry  (1877) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	None	None	None
AC		1878-1930	1877-1908
LOPC	1877-1898	None	1877-1908
LBMD	None	1878-1900	None
RADCLIFFE ST JOHN Chapelry  (1878) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
AC			1878-1979
RADCLIFFE ST THOMAS Chapelry  (1819) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
AC		1849-1930	1826-1964
FS	1863-1910	1874-1935	1863-1964
LOPC	1819-1825, 1878	None	1877-1921
LBMD	None	1849-1900	None

Parish registers for St. Mary's Church, Radcliffe, 1557-1950 Microfilm of original records at the Manchester Public Library (1960), and formerly held at the Manchester Archives Central Library in Manchester, England. Manchester Archives Central Library call nos.: L210/1/1/1-3, L210/1/2/1, L210/1/3/1-8, L210/1/4/1-11, L210/1/5/1.

Content	Film
Baptisms, marriages, burials, 1557-1783 (marriages to 1761). Baptisms, burials, 1783-1812. Baptisms, 1813-1827 (includes St. Thomas' Church, Radcliffe, entries from 31 December 1819 to 25 September 1825, and also 1837).	FHL BRITISH Film 2357437 Items 2 - 6
Baptisms, 1828-1931. Marriages, 1761-June 1831.	FHL BRITISH Film 2357466
Marriages, May 1831-February 1897.	FHL BRITISH Film 2357467
Marriages, February 1897-1950. Burials, 1813-July 1841.	FHL BRITISH Film 2357468
Burials, May 1841-1925.	FHL BRITISH Film 2357469 Items 1 - 7
Baptisms, 1783-1851; marriages, 1761-1837; and burials, 1783-1850. (another filming)	FHL BRITISH Film 506450 Item 1

Original Records

The Lancashire Record Office at Bow Lane, Preston PR2 1RE, holds the original parish registers in its vast collections. Contact their website for contact information.

The Family History Library has microfilmed the parish registers and Bishop's transcripts of Radcliffe St. Mary parish for the years 1557-1918. These films are available for ordering/circulating and researching at any one of its satellite FamilySearch Centers worldwide.

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.

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.

Taxation

• 1541 - 1541 Subsidy of Radclyff and Heaton Rediche (p. 144)
• 1622 - 1622 Subsidy of Radclyff (p. 161)

Maps and Gazetteers

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Websites

Radcliffe Parish Church

FamilySearch

Family History Library