Levenshulme, Lancashire Genealogy

England Lancashire Lancashire Parishes

Chapelry History

LEVENSHULME, a village, a township, and a parochial chapelry, in Manchester parish, Lancaster. The village stands 3 miles southeast by south of Manchester. The chapelry is more extensive than the township, and was constituted in 1861. There are chapels for Independents, Wesleyans, Free Methodists, and Roman Catholics. There is also a convent. The Free Methodist chapel was built in 1864; and a school, in connexion with it, to accommodate 250 children, was built in 1866.

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 

Some online transcriptions for Levenshulme St Peter's Chapelry exist, as well as those for the ancient parish of Manchester Our Lady, St George, and St Denys--to which it was attached. Links to online baptisms, marriages and burials registers are displayed below and located at the web sites indicated; note the ranges of years: 

FS =FamilySearch.org

LOPC = Lancashire Online Parish Clerk

FMP =  FMP = FindMyPast

LBMD = Lancashire BMD

AC = Ancestry.co.uk

 

LEVENSHULME ST PETER Chapelry (1854) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	None	None	None
LOPC	None	None	None
LBMD	None	1861-1997	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 chapelries and district churches in the ancient parish of Manchester and their respective links to online transcriptions of their baptisms, marriages and burials, be sure to visit the MANCHESTER (CATHEDRAL) OUR LADY, ST GEORGE & ST DENYS page.

Original Records The Manchester Room and Greater Manchester County Record Office
Email: archiveslocalstudies@manchester.gov.uk

The Manchester Room@City Library (Local Studies)

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

Chorlton Poor Law Union,Lancashire

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

Web sites

http://www.achurchnearyou.com/chorlton-cum-hardy-st-clement/ for information about the parish