Comprehensive List of Rochdale Chapelries

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St Chad is an ancient* parish and one of the larger towns in Lancashire. It possesses numerous townships with their respective chapels or chapelries associated within it. Here is a comprehensive list of townships with chapelries attached to this ancient parish:


 * - 1592;
 * Rochdale St Albans Chapelry - 18
 * - 1742 burials; sometimes known as Wardleworth St Mary the Baum
 * - 1726
 * - 1787
 * - 1767
 * - 1849
 * - 1847
 * - 1743 (partly also in the parish of Ashton-under-Lyne)
 * - 1741
 * - 1788
 * - 1612
 * - 1834
 * - 1835
 * - 1625
 * - 1832
 * - 1840
 * - 1845
 * - 1821
 * Wardle with Wuerdle St John (see Smallbridge)
 * Wardleworth St Mary the Baum – see under Rochdale St Mary; see Manchester Central Library
 * - 1753

Helpful Links:


 * Lancashire Online Parish Clerk project is indexing most of Lancashire's parish and chapelry registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, as well as Nonconformist registers
 * Newspaper index at Rochdale Local Studies Library is online, 1856 to the twentieth century.
 * The website, "A Church Near You" provides some information on some chapelries (and parishes)

Bibliography:

Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, by Youngs, Frederic A. Pub: The Royal Historical Society, London 1991

Topographical Dictionary of England, Lewis Samuel. Pub: Samuel A. Lewis &amp; Co. London 1841

A Comprehensive Gazetteer of England, by Bell, James. A. Pub.: Fullarton &amp; Co. Glasgow 1836

Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, by A. Fullarton &amp; Co. Glasgow and London ca. 1869 (see www.visionofBritain.org.uk)