Bolton le Moors St Peter, Lancashire Genealogy

Guide to Bolton le Moors St Peter, Lancashire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records. Here is a Comprehensive List of Chapelries in Bolton le Moors Parish

Parish History
BOLTON-LE-MOORS (St. Peter), a parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of Salford, S.division of the county of Lancaster; comprising the borough and market-town of Bolton, the chapelries of Blackrod, Bradshaw, Harwood, Little Lever, and Turton, and the townships of Anglezarke, Breightmet, Edgeworth, Entwistle, Darcy Lever, Longworth, Lostock, Quarlton, Rivington, Sharples, and Tonge with Haulgh. Other places in the parish include: Great Bolton, Eastern, Gale Paper Works, Great Bolton, Western, Haulgh, High Houses, Longworth, Lostock, Old Hams (Oldhams), Picadilly, Quarlton, Sharples Higher End, Sharples Lower End, Sweet Loves, West, Anglezark, Anglezarke, Bank Top, Belmont, Bolton, Breightmet, Darcy Lever, East, Edgeworth, and Folds, Little Lever, Turton and more. Bolton is about 43 miles south by southeast of the City of Lancaster. There was a Scottish chapel built in 1846 as well as chapels for worship for Baptists, Independents, Unitarians, the Society of Friends, Swedenborgians, Methodists, and Roman Catholics. A French Chapel existed at one time due to the French refugees settling in this town.

For research purposes, here is a Comprehensive List of Chapelries in Bolton le Moors St Peters Parish.

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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.

At a more local level, a countywide online index for Lancashire Births, Marriages and Deaths may be found at Lancashire BMD--a "must see" web site for obtaining index information and beyond (i.e. the name of the parish of most marriages are provided) for the civil registration time period.

Church Records
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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.

Chapelries of Bolton le Moors St Peter
Online Parish Records Table

Due to the increasing access of online records: Hover over the collection's title for more information Other Websites These databases have incomplete parish coverage.
 * Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
 * Dates in the following table are approximate
 * 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

Non-Conformist Churches (All other Religions)

 * 1647-1996 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)

Genealogy
Mealing, Kathy: Wallwork of Bolton. History and family tree of John Wallwork and Martha Ainsworth, with ancestors from Ireland, Yorkshire, Lancashire, with descendants emigrating to Australia, N.S.W. Family Tree dates from 1809-1957. The following surnames are also on the tree. Kearns Jay, Clinton, Byron, Stanton, Brown, Parker, Thoms, Donnelly, Davis, Boltwood, Moody, Whatson, Allison, Chauney, Perkins. Article in Lancashire Family History and Heraldry Soc. Magazine vol.6,no.4,pages 24-25, FHL Ref. 942.72 B2r

Todd, A.A. Lord of Kearsley, Farnworth, Ainsworth, Bolton and Tyldesley. History and family tree of John Lord and Mary surname unknown, dating from 1724-1859, with the following surnames. Watson, Kay Taylor, Grundy, Pickering, Dixon, Thornley, Hardman, Bordman, Smith, Berry, Reece, Whittaker, Isherwood, Ratcliffe, Bowker, Bardburn. In another family tree of Joshua Lord, wife unknown, with family names Gregory, Smith, Whittaker, Halliwell, dating 1746-1831. Article in The Lancashire Family History and Heraldry Soc. Magazine, Vol.8. no.3, pages 20-32 Family History Library Ref. 942.72 B2r

Ashworth, Alf. The Direct Ancestry of Ashworth/Entwistle of Bolton. History and family tree of John Alfred Ashworth and Andrew Ashworth and Edna Entwistle, with the following surnames, Roston, Lumb, Hardy, Jones, Lever, Liptrot, Crabtree, Pgh, Richardson, Peniston, Marsh, Prince, Rosbotham, Greenhalgh, Richardson, Hodson, Taylor, Bissett dating from 1783-1955, to be found in The Lancashire Family History and Heraldry Soc. vol.9,no.2, pages25-30 FHL 942.72 B2r

Poor Law Unions
Bolton, Lancashire 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 Bolton, Salford Hundred (p. 142)
 * 1541 - 1541 Subsidy of Eggeworthe (p. 142)
 * 1622 - 1622 Subsidy of Boulton, Salford Hundred (p. 159)
 * 1622 - 1622 Subsidy of Edgworth (p. 159)
 * 1622 - 1622 Subsidy of Harewood (p. 159)

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Websites
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