Ardwick, Lancashire Genealogy

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Chapelry History

Ardwick St Thomas is a chapel created in 1740.

ARDWICK, a township with two ecclesiastical district chapels, including St Thomas and St Silas--both lying within the parish and borough of Manchester, union of Chorlton, hundred of Salford, S. division of the county of Lancaster, 1 mile (S. E. by E.) from Manchester. St Thomas Chapelry was built by the year 1740.

The chapel of St. Silas' was built in 1841. The Wesleyans and Independents have places of worship; and there is a public cemetery of eight acres, opened in 1838.

By the year 1880, Ardwick township had at least four chapelries built within it, and all resided within the parish boundary of, and under the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of Manchester Cathedral (Our Lady, St George & St Denys).

Resources

Civil Registration

Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The England 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

Online Records

FS =FamilySearch.org

LOPC = Lancashire Online Parish Clerk

FMP =  FMP = FindMyPast

LBMD = Lancashire BMD

AC = Ancestry.co.uk

ARDWICK ST BENEDICT Chapelry (1880) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	1880-1910	1880-1930	None Extant
LBMD	1880-1917	1880-2000	1837-1882
ARDWICK ST MATTHEW Chapelry (1865) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	1865-1910	1869-1928	None Extant
LOPC	None	None	None
LBMD	1869-1971	1856-1971	1837-1882
ARDWICK ST SILAS Chapelry (1842) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	1842-1910	1742-1844	None Extant
LOPC	None	None	None
FREG	None	1856-1907	None
LBMD	1837-1936	1856-1954	1837-1882
ARDWICK ST THOMAS Chapelry (1740) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	1740-1910	1740-1930	1740-1842
LOPC	1740-1876	1742-1863	1741-1856
LBMD	1837-1936	1873-1976	1837-1882

MANCHESTER CATHEDRAL - OUR LADY, ST GEORGE AND ST DENYS (1573) - The Parish -  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

Ardwick 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 Our Lady, St George and St Denys Cathedral, which see (below). 

If you do not locate your ancestor in the above chapelry links above and in Manchester Cathedral links (below), and before researching in any other Lancashire parish, you must 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 baptisms, marriage  and burial registers (where extant) must be searched. To see 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.

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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