Bolton le Moors St George, Lancashire Genealogy

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

Chapelry History
The district church dedicated to St. George, in Little Bolton, was erected by subscription in 1796. It is a chapelry within the boundaries of Bolton le Moors St Peter, Lancashire. 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; 43 miles (S. S. E.) from Lancaster, and 197 (N. W. by N.) from London.

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 St. George 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 St. George 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.

Non-Conformist Churches

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

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