Chorlton upon Medlock St Stephen, Lancashire, England Genealogy


Guide to Chorlton upon Medlock St Stephen, Lancashire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Chapelry History

"CHORLTON-UPON-MEDLOCK, St Stephen was created a chapel of ease in 1854, taken from and lying within the parish boundaries of Manchester ancient Parish. St Stephen included 7 other chapelries which served this township of this area within the parish of Manchester).[1]

CHORLTON-UPON-MEDLOCK (St Stephen) was one of eight chapels of ease serving within that township, built around 1854, and the township included All Saints (1808, St Ambrose (1884), St Luke (1804), All Saints (1808), St Matthias (1876), and St Savior (1854), all within the parish boundaries of Manchester Our Lady, St George and St Denys (the Cathedral), in the hundred of Salford, S. division of the county of Lancaster. The name of this place, formerly Chorlton-Row, was changed, on an act of parliament being obtained for the township, to Chorlton-upon-Medlock, as a better than its ancient designation, the river Medlock (which separates it from the township of Manchester) forming its entire boundary on the north. It was created by the year 1836. There are meeting-houses for Evangelical Friends, Presbyterians, General Baptists, Independents, Primitive Methodists, Unitarians, and Wesleyans. [2]

Resources

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Civil Registration

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

Church Records

The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor.
Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

Church of England

Chapelry is a church or churches built in a large ecclesiastical parish to help the members attend worship services closer to their homes.

Online Parish Records Table

Due to the increasing access of online records:

  • Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
  • Dates in the following table are approximate

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Chorlton upon Medlock St Stephen Parish Records
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FamilySearch Collections-Lancashire
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Parish Registers-Lancashire
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Bishop's Transcripts - FamilySearch Catalog
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FreeREG
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Findmypast-Lancashire ($)
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Ancestry-Church of England BMD-Lancashire ($)
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Ancestry-England & Wales, Birth, Christening, Marriage and Death Indexes ($)
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MyHeritage-Manchester Parish Records ($)
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Databases with Known Incomplete Parish Coverage
Boyd's Marriage Indexes-FMP (Free)
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National Burial Index-FMP (Free)
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Other Websites
These databases have incomplete parish coverage.

Nonconformist Records

"Nonconformist" is a term referring to religious denominations other than an established or state church. In England, the state church is the Church of England.

Census Records

Census records from 1841 to 1921 are available online. See England Census for more resources.

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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Websites

References

  1. A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis (1848), pp. 607-612. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50877 Date accessed: 29 June 2010.
  2. Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 607-612. Date accessed: 16 September 2013.