Bradford St Philip, Lancashire Genealogy

Chapelry History

Bradford St Philip Chapelry in Manchester was created and in operation by the year 1850 taken from Ancoats All Souls, Lancashire Genealogy Ecclesiastical Parish.

An Image of the church can be viewed online at www.images.manchester.gov.uk/libraries Manchester Image Collection

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

St Philip Bradford Chapelry, in Manchester has online transcriptions for its baptisms, marriages and burials, as well as for Christ Church Bradford and for the ancient or mother parish of Manchester Cathedral of Our Lady, St George and St Denys. These online transcriptions are all available and located at the web sites indicated below; note the ranges of years:

FS =FamilySearch.org
LOPC = Lancashire Online Parish Clerk
FMP = FMP = findmypast
LBMD = Lancashire BMD
AC = Ancestry.co.uk

BRADFORD ST PHILIP Chapelry (1850) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	1850-1910	1850-1935	None
LOPC	None	None	None
LBMD	1837-1881;1908-1936	1850-1950	None
BRADFORD CHRIST CHURCH Chapelry (1862) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	1862-1910	1862-1930 - part.	1862-1943 - part.
LOPC	None	None	None
LBMD	1908-1936	1862-1968	None
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

To view a full list of all (over 150) of Manchester City's numerous chapelries and district churches and the links to online data for each, see the ancient parish (Cathedral) of MANCHESTER OUR LADY, ST GEORGE, & ST DENYS page.

Original Records
Parish registers for St. Philip's Church, Bradford Road, Manchester, have been microfilmed from 1850 on. Microfilmed copy of original registers were filmed at the Manchester Archives Central Library in Manchester, England and formerly held at Manchester Central Library
Manchester Archives Central Library call nos.: M299/3/1/1-9, M299/3/2/1-12.

FamilySearch call no.'s include the following:

Baptisms, 1850-October 1883.	VAULT BRITISH Film 2357535
Baptisms, October 1883-1942. Marriages, 1850-November 1867.	VAULT BRITISH Film 2357536
ages, November 1867-October 1895.	FHL BRITISH Film 2357537
Marriages, October 1895-May 1925, April 1935-March 1945.	VAULT BRITISH Film 2357637
Marriages, March 1945-1950, June 1925-1935.	FHL BRITISH Film 2357638 Items 1 - 2

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.

Maps and Gazetteers

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