Oldham St Mary, Lancashire, England Genealogy

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

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Type	Ecclesiastical Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
County	Lancashire
Hundred	Salford
Poor Law Union	Oldham
Registration District	Oldham
Records Begin
Parish registers	1796
Bishop's Transcripts	1604
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery	Rochdale
Diocese	Manchester
Province	York
Probate Court	Court of the Bishop of Chester (Episcopal Consistory)
Archive
Lancashire Record Office

Chapel History

OLDHAM, an enfranchised borough, a parochial chapelry with several attached chapelries, and the head of a union, in the parish of Prestwich, hundred of Salford, S. division of the county of Lancaster, 7 miles northeast by east of Manchester. The ancient chapel was dedicated to St. Mary. Other towns and places in the parish include: Oldham below Town, Westwood, Mumps, Greenacres, Oldham above Town, Clarkesfield, Chadderton, and Moor. There were places of worship for Baptists, the Society of Friends, Independents, Kilhamites, Moravians, Primitive and Wesleyan Methodists, Unitarians, and Roman Catholics.^[1]

While Oldham St Mary was a mere chapelry, however it was a parochial chapelry and as such it held some ecclesiastical jurisdiction over several additional chapelries. These churches included:

Oldham St Peter's Chapel - 1765
Oldham St James - 1829
Hollinwood - 1769
Royton - 1758
Shaw - 1723
Chadderton St John - 1844
Chadderton St Matthew - 1857
Coldhurst - 1844
East Crompton - 1847
Glodwick Christ Church - 1844
Waterhead - 1845
Werneth - 1847

There were additional, more modern built chapels within Oldham as well. See John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, to determine their names.^[2]

Resources

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Cemeteries

1857-2023 Oldham, England Burials and Cremations, 1857-2023 at Ancestry — index ($)
Churchyard Inscriptions, St. Mary, Oldham, Lancashire, England(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
Copies of the Inscriptions on the Memorials and Gravestones in St. Mary's Churchyard, Oldham(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
The Oldham Chapelry(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
England, Lancashire, Oldham Burials at MyHeritage - index ($)

Civil Registration

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

1662-1825 Manchester Death Register at Findmypast - index & images ($)
See England Civil Registration for online resources and information.

Online index of Lancashire Births, Marriages and Deaths Lancashire BMD

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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Oldham St Mary Parish Records
Collections	Baptisms		Marriages		Burials
	Indexes and images	Indexes only	Indexes and images	Indexes only	Indexes and images	Indexes only
FamilySearch Collections-Lancashire	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-
Parish Registers-Lancashire	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-
Bishop's Transcripts - FamilySearch Catalog	1700s-1800s	-	1700s-1800s	-	1700s-1800s	-
American Ancestors ($)	-	1558-1661	-	1558-1661	-	1558-1661
FreeREG	-	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s
Findmypast-Lancashire ($)	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-
Ancestry-Church of England BMD-Lancashire ($)	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-
Ancestry-England & Wales, Birth, Christening, Marriage and Death Indexes ($)	-	1500s-1900s 1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s 1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s
MyHeritage-England, Lancashire, Oldham Burials ($)	-	-	-	-	-	1800-Onward
MyHeritage-Manchester Parish Records ($)	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-	-	-
Databases with Known Incomplete Parish Coverage
Boyd's Marriage Indexes-FMP (Free)	-	-	-	1500s-1800s	-	-
National Burial Index-FMP (Free)	-	-	-	-	-	1800s-1900s

Other Websites
These databases have incomplete parish coverage.

Joiner Marriage Index - Lancashire ($)
The Genealogist Parish Registers - Lancashire ($)
UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records
OnLine Parish Clerks - Lancashire - OnLine Parish Clerks project for Lancashire

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 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 FamilySearch Center or at the FamilySearch Library.

Poor Law Unions

Oldham 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.

Taxation

1541 - 1541 Subsidy of Oldom (p. 145)^[3]

1622 - 1622 Subsidy of Ouldhame (p. 157)^[3]

Maps and Gazetteers

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

Websites

British History Online Oldham

References

↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England(1848), pp. 472-476. Date accessed 22 October 2013
↑ John M. Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales. Published Edinburgh 1870.
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 J.P. Earwaker, Three Lancashire Subsidy Rolls, viz., for the Hundred of Salford, 1541, the Hundred of Salford, 1622 and the Hundred of Leyland, 1628, Together with a Recusant Roll for the Hundred of Leyland, in 1628 (London: Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 1885). Digital version at FamilySearch Digital Library.

[1] Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England(1848), pp. 472-476. Date accessed 22 October 2013

[2] John M. Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales. Published Edinburgh 1870.

[ear-3] 3.0 ^3.1 J.P. Earwaker, Three Lancashire Subsidy Rolls, viz., for the Hundred of Salford, 1541, the Hundred of Salford, 1622 and the Hundred of Leyland, 1628, Together with a Recusant Roll for the Hundred of Leyland, in 1628 (London: Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 1885). Digital version at FamilySearch Digital Library.

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