Manchester St Peter, Lancashire Genealogy

England Lancashire  Lancashire Parishes

Chapel History
St. Peter's, erected by subscription among the inhabitants, and consecrated in 1794.

The parish of St Peter, in the Cathedral rural deanery, was formed March 29, 1839: the church in the centre of St Peter's square and consecrated in 1794, is a cruciform building of stone in the Classic style, consisting of nave, transepts, two north and two south porches and a south tower containing a clock and one bell: there are sittings for 1000 persons, 150 being free. The register dates from the year 1794. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £220, in the gift of the Dean and Canons of Manchester, and held since 1889 by the Rev. William Bedford, M.A. of Trinity College, Dublin."

Manchester St Peter is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Lancashire, created in 1838 from Manchester Our Lady, St George and St Denys, Lancashire Ancient Parish; located on Mosley Street.

The church was closed in 1906.

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&#160; St Peter Mosley Street, Manchester Chapelry has&#160;online transcriptions for its baptisms, marriages and burials. Links to this data content as well as for the ancient parish (Cathedral) of&#160;Manchester Our Lady, St George and St Denys, are displayed&#160;below. The available&#160;online data is located at the web sites indicated; note the&#160;ranges of years:&#160; To view a full list of all (over 150) of the city of Manchester's chapelries and district churches and the availability of their online data content of baptisms, marriages and burials, see the ancient parish (Cathedral) of MANCHESTER,&#160;OUR&#160;LADY, ST&#160;GEORGE &amp;&#160;ST&#160;DENYS page. Original Records

Census records
http://www.1881pubs.com/ for details of public houses in the 1881 census

Poor Law Unions
Manchester 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.

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