Heywood St James, Lancashire Genealogy

England Lancashire  Lancashire Parishes

Chapelry History
Heywood St James was one of two chapels serving the township of Heywood; it was built as a chapel of ease in the year 1838 and lay within the civil parish boundary of Bury.

The modern parish is in the Heywood and Middleton Deanery of the diocese of Manchester.

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.

Church records
Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

For ealier records search Heywood, Lancashire.

Parish registers for St. James' Church, Heywood, 1838-1980 Microfilm copy of originals formerly held at the Manchester Central Library, Manchester, England. Heywood is a chapelry in Bury parish. St. James' Church was created from the original chapelry in 1720. Manchester Central Library call nos.: L170/1/1/1-7, L170/1/2/1-9, L170/1/3/1-3, L170/1/4.

Poor Law Unions
Bury Poor Law Union, Lancashire

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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