Rochdale St Chad, Lancashire, England Genealogy
Guide to Rochdale St Chad, Lancashire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records. See a Comprehensive List of Rochdale Chapelries
| Rochdale St Chad | |
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| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| County | Lancashire |
| Hundred | Agbrigg; Salford |
| Poor Law Union | Rochdale |
| Registration District | Rochdale; Todmorden |
| Records Begin | |
| Parish registers | 1582 |
| Bishop's Transcripts | 1599 |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Rochdale |
| Diocese | Manchester |
| Probate Court | Court of the Bishop of Chester (Episcopal Consistory) |
| Archive | |
| Lancashire Record Office | |
Part of this parish is in Yorkshire. See also Rochdale St Chad, Yorkshire.
Parish History[edit | edit source]
ROCHDALE St Chad, a borough, market-town, and parish, and the head of a union, chiefly in the hundred of Salford, S. division of the county of Lancaster, but partly in the Upper division of the wapentake of Agbrigg, W. riding of York, 10½ miles north by northeast of Manchester.[1]
Rochdale St Chad Parish, serving a population of nearly one hundred thousand (by 1851), was not the only church built within its boundary. St Chad's parish boundary was divided up into about twenty chapelry districts, each with is own chapel of ease (or church), with baptism and burial registers (rarely marriages--which instead were usually performed at the ancient parish of St Chad's, Rochdale), standing within its parish boundary. St. Mary's church, Hundersfield, was consecrated in 1740. St. James's, Hundersfield, was erected in 1820. At Healey, Littleborough, Milnrow, Saddleworth, Smallbridge, Spotland-Bridge, Todmorden, Walsden, and Whitworth, are other incumbencies. In the town are places of worship for Baptists, Independents, Presbyterians, Unitarians, Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists, Methodists of the New Connexion, the Wesleyan Methodists Association, the Society of Friends, and Roman Catholics. The ancient Trinity chapel was erected in the time of Henry VII. The mother church, that of St. John the Baptist, stands at the east end of the town. Trinity church, in Harrison lane, was built in 1795. St. James' church was built in 1828. St. Mary's church was built in 1869. A new cemetery was formed, in 1841; and another, at StoneyRoyd, was formed in 1861. An Independent chapel, near the railway station, was built in 1857. Another Independent chapel was built in 1869. There are also three other chapels for Independents, three for Baptists, one for Quakers, one for Unitarians, two for Wesleyans, one for Primitive Methodists, two for New Connexion Methodists, one for United Free Methodists, and one for Roman Catholics.
The town was made a parliamentary burgh, by the Reform act, in 1832... Its limits were extended in 1865, and include all the township of Halifax, and parts of the townships of Ovenden, Skircoat, Northowram and Southowram. 1851, 25,161; in 1861, 28,990. Houses, 6,120. The parish contains also the townships of Northowram, Southowram, Skircoat, Shelf, Ovenden, Midgley, Warley, Norland, Sowerby, Soyland, Rishworth, Barkisland, Stainland, Elland-with-Greetland, Hipperholme-with-Brighouse, Rastrick, Fixby, Wadsworth, Erringden, Heptonstall, Stansfield, and Langfield [most of which possess a chapelry]; the last five of which are in the district of Todmorden.
Places[edit | edit source]
Chapelries[edit | edit source]
Rochdale St Chad consists of the following chapelries
- Butterworth St James (Milnrow) Chapelry - 1715
- Castleton St Martin Chapelry - 1858
- Dobcross Holy Trinity Chapelry (Yorks) - 1787
- Friarmere St Thomas Chapelry - 1767
- Friezland Chapelry (Yorks) - 1848
- Greenfield St Thomas Chapelry - 1874
- Hey (or Church Lees) St John the Baptist Chapelry - 1743
- Healey Christ Church Chapelry - 1847
- Littleborough Holy Trinity Chapelry - 1741
- Lydgate St Ann's Chapelry - 1788
- Milnrow St James (Butterworth)
- Rochdale St Mary (Baum Chapel) Cemetery - 1742
- Rochdale St Albans Chapelry - 1856
- Rochdale St Paul Parish - 1755
- Saddleworth St Chad Chapelry - 1613
- Smallbridge St John the Baptist Chapelry - 1834
- Spotland St Clement Chapelry - 1835
- Todmorden St Mary Chapelry - 1624
- Todmorden Christ Church Chapelry - 1834
- Tunstead Holy Trinity Chapelry - 1840
- Walsden St Peter Chapelry - 1845
- Wardle with Wuerdle St James Chapelry - 1859
- Warldeworth St James Chapelry - 1821
- Wardleworth St Mary Chapelry - 1700
- Whitworth St Bartholomew Chapelry - 1753
Resources[edit | edit source]
Find Neighboring Parishes[edit | edit source]
Use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map
- Type the name of the parish in the search bar
- Click on the location pin on the map
- Choose Options from the pop up box
- Click "List Contiguous Parishes" to find the neighboring parishes
Cemeteries[edit | edit source]
- 1855-1999 Rochdale Cemetery, Register of Burials, 1855-1999; with Index to Burials, 1855-1999; Family Grave Register, ca. 1855-1999(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
- 1894-1998 Dearnley Cemetery, Burials in the Parish of St. Andrew, Dearnley, in the County of Lancaster, 1894-1998; with Index to Burials, 1894-1998; Grave Book, 1894-1998(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
- Calderbrook, St. James's Church [Cemetery Records](*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
- Monumental Transcriptions of Hawkshead Parish and for the Society of Friends Old Burial Ground.
- St. Andrew's Church, Dearnley Littleborough, Memorial Inscriptions(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
- Copies of the Inscriptions in the Town Meadows Burial Ground(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
- Disused Burial Ground, Drake Street, Rochdale(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
- Inscriptions on the Gravestones in the Churchyard of the Parish Church of St. Chad, Rochdale(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
- Lancashire Monumental Inscriptions(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
- Lancashire Monumental Inscriptions, Rochdale, Ogden Baptist Church(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
- Lancashire Register of Interments(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
- Monumental Inscriptions, West Street Baptist Church, Rochdale(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
- Ogden Baptist Church, Old Churchyard Monumental Inscriptions(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
- Providence Street Chapel, High Street, Rochdale(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
- Rochdale Friends Burial Ground Register of Interments(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
- Rochdale, Hope St. Baptist Church(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
- Spotland, St. Clement's [Monumental Inscriptions](*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
- St. Clement's Church, Rochdale, Graveyard Inscriptions(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
- Union Street Chapel, Rochdale(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
- West Street Baptist Church Graveyard(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
- 1752-1967 Parish Registers, Including Roll of Members, Grave Register, and Sick and Burial Society Register, 1752-1967(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
Civil Registration of Births, Marriages & Deaths - 1837 to the Present[edit | edit source]
Read about England Civil Registration (vital records) of birth, marriages and deaths on the England main page.
Online Indexes
There are two separate (free) indexes available for Lancashire civil registration of births, marriages and deaths. One index covers all registrations nation-wide, and one index covers the copies of the local registration districts' certificate copies for all registration districts throughout Lancashire, as follows:
- FreeBMD - an online (free) nation-wide index to the certificates held at the General Registrar's Office, formerly in London, now in Solihull, Merseyside, UK. The years currently covered in this index include July, 1837 to at least 1940.
- LancashireBMD - an online index (free) to county-wide births, marriages and deaths for all registration districts throughout Lancashire, for the following range of years and their events: births 1837-1974; marriages 1837-2010; deaths 1837-1975.
- Lancashire-OPC.org.uk (below) provides numerous parish and chapel transcriptions online (free) running concurrent with the post-1837 to 1910 period. While the parish registers are not certified copies of the civil certificates of birth and death, they do however, often provide primary source birth (baptisms/christenings) and death (burials) information; of especial note are the post-1837 parish marriage registers which provide an exact replica of the civil registration certificates of marriages.
Indexes
FamilySearch's FamilySearch Library British collections holds the quarterly indexes of births, marriages and deaths from July, 1837 to 1983 in microform media.
Church Records[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
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
Hover over the collection's title for more information
| Rochdale St Chad Parish Records | ||||||
| All Chapelries Found in Rochdale St Chad are included in these links. | ||||||
| FamilySearch Collections-Lancashire | ||||||
| Parish Registers-Lancashire | ||||||
| Bishop's Transcripts - FamilySearch Catalog | ||||||
| FreeREG | ||||||
| Findmypast-Lancashire ($) | ||||||
| Ancestry-Church of England BMD-Lancashire ($) | ||||||
| Ancestry-England & Wales, Birth, Christening, Marriage and Death Indexes ($) | 1500s-1900s |
1500s-1900s |
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| MyHeritage-Manchester Parish Records ($) | ||||||
| Databases with Known Incomplete Parish Coverage | ||||||
| Boyd's Marriage Indexes-FMP (Free) | ||||||
| National Burial Index-FMP (Free) | ||||||
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[edit | edit source]
"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.
- 1647-1996 England, Lancashire Non-conformist Church Records, 1647-1996 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)
Census[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1921 are available online. See England Census for more resources.
Poor Law Unions
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Rochdale Parish was the head of a poor law union.
Probate Records[edit | edit source]
Go to the Lancashire Probate Records and follow the step by step instructions to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction and search the records.
Maps and Gazetteers
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Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 679-686.