Bardsley, Lancashire Genealogy

England

Lancashire

Lancashire Parishes

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

Bardsley, Lancashire
Type	Ecclesiastical Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
Hundred	Salford
County	Lancashire
Poor Law Union	Ashton Under Lyne
Registration District	Ashton under Lyne
Records begin
Parish registers: 1844
Bishop's Transcripts: None
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery	Ashton Under Lyne
Diocese	Manchester
Province	York
Legal Jurisdictions
Probate Court	Court of the Bishop of Chester (Episcopal Consistory)
Location of Archive
Lancashire Record Office

Chapelry History

BARDSLEY, an ecclesiastical district with a chapel, in the parish and union of Ashton-under-Lyne, hundred of Salford, S. division of the county of Lancaster. The Primitive Methodists have a place of worship.

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

• 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

Online Records

Bardsley chapelry's registers of christenings, marriages and burials, along with those of the ancient parish of Ashton under Lyne to which it is attached, have been mostly transcribed and are displayed online at the following web sites and ranges of years:

AC = Ancestry.co.uk (£)

FMP = findmypast (£)

FREG = FreeReg

FS = FamilySearch.org

LBMD = LancashireBMD.org.uk

LOPC = Lancashire Online Parish Clerk

BARDSLEY HOLY TRINITY Chapelry (1844) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	1844-1874	1844-1917	1845-1934
LOPC	None	None	None
LBMD	None	1844-1974	None
ASHTON UNDER LYNE ST MICHAEL PARISH (1596) Indexes (ancient parish containing BARDSLEY Chapelry)
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	1594-1843	1754-1837	1768-1892
LOPC	None	1754-1844	1892-1908
AC	1594-1720	1594-1720	1594-1720

For a full list of all those chapels surrounding Bardsley and comprising the whole ancient parish of Ashton under Lyne to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the ASHTON UNDER LYNE ST MICHAEL PARISH page.

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.

Maps and Gazetteers

Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.

• England Jurisdictions 1851
• Vision of Britain

Websites

Bardsley a chapel in Ashton-under-Lyne on GENUKI