Ancoats Christ Church, Lancashire Genealogy

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Parish History

Ancoats Christ Church is a chapelry or chapel of ease purchased originally from the Methodist New Connexion Church and was re-furbished with a new front facade. It commenced operation in the year 1844 and lay within the boundary of Manchester Our Lady, St George and St Denys Ancient Parish.
The church stood in Acton Square, Ancoats.

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

Church records

Online Records

Ancoats Christ Church Chapelry and all its additional contemporary chapelries (5 others), possessed chapelry registers of baptisms, marriages and burials. These have been indexed or transcribed and are available online at no cost, as follows:

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 ALL SOULS Chapelry (1840) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	1837-1908	1846-1928	None
LOPC	1840-1876	None	None
LBMD	1840-1917	1846-1981	1837-1882
ANCOATS CHRIST CHURCH Chapelry (1844) Indexes - a dissenters chapel after 1857
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	1837-1917	1814-1930 - part.	1837-1882
ANCOATS ST ANDREWS Chapelry (1831) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	1827-1910	None	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 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

Ancoats Christ Church is one of six chapels comprising the township; and it was one of at least 150 chapels in total comprising the whole of Manchester Parish's boundary (by 1880).

The 'mother' or ancient parish of Manchester City is the Cathedral of Manchester, called Our Lady, St George and St Denys Cathedral.

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 list of Ancoats chapelry links and in Manchester Cathedral links listed above, be certain before you research in any other Lancashire parish, you include a thorough search into all of Manchester City's attached chapelries (over 150 of them)! Unfortunately, Manchester Cathedral (the parish) is England's largest parish thus each chapelry's baptism, marriage and burial registers (where extant) must be searched. To help you identify all of Manchester's chapelries, and then search what's online for each one of Manchester City's chapelries and district churches--view a complete list of all its chapels--HERE (scroll down to "Church Records").

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.

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.

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