Bolton le Moors Christ Church, Lancashire Genealogy

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Guide to Bolton le Moors Christ Church, Lancashire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: chapelry register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Chapelry History
Bolton le Moors (Christ Church) was a chapelry [as of 1841], and was originally built in 1818 for the New Connexcion Methodists, but purchased in 1841 by the established church. It stood in the civil parish of St Peter Bolton le Moors. Christ church is of brick, with a handsome Norman porch, and windows of the same style of terra cotta.

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

 * 1538 - 1910 at FamilySearch — index
 * 1603 - 1910 at FamilySearch — index and images

Online Records
 Church of England 

Bolton Le Moors Christ Church chapelry's registers of christenings, marriages and burials, along with those of the ancient parish of Bolton Le Moors St. Peter to which it is attached, have been mostly transcribed and are displayed online at the following web sites and ranges of years:

For a full list of all those chapels surrounding Bolton le Moors Christ Church and comprising the whole ancient parish of Bolton Le Moors St. Peter to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the BOLTON LE MOORS ST PETER PARISH page.

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.

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

Websites
Bolton le Moors on GENUKI