Failsworth, Lancashire Genealogy

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Chapelry History
FAILSWORTH, a township, in the parish of Manchester, hundred of Salford, S. division of the county of Lancaster, 4¼ miles (N. E. by E.) from Manchester; containing 3879 inhabitants. The cotton manufacture is carried on in this as in the neighbouring townships. The village lies on the road from Manchester to Oldham; and remains of a Roman road exist. A church district was endowed in 1844 by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners; the living is in the gift of the Crown and the Bishop of Chester, alternately. The first stone of a church, St. John's, was laid in August, 1845, and the building was consecrated in Nov. 1846; it is in the early English style, cost £2400, and contains 807 sittings, whereof three-fourths are free. The dissenters have a place of worship in the township; and there is a national school.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis (1848), pp. 206-209. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50954 Date accessed: 30 June 2010.

Failsworth St John is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Lancashire, created in 1844 from Newton All Saints, Lancashire Ecclesiastical Parish.

Civil Registration
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Online index of Lancashire Births, Marriages and Deaths Lancashire BMD

Church records
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Parish registers, 1845-1976 The chapelry of Failsworth is in the parish of Manchester Our Lady, St George and St Denys, Lancashire

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

Poor Law Unions
Prestwich 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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