St Anne, Hindsford,Lancashire

Parish History
Hindsford St Anne was an Ecclesiastical parish previously known as St Anne's Mission in the parish of Atherton, Lancashire and formed in 1884 as a parish.

From 1873 to 1901, Hindsford children were baptised at the small, brick, St Anne’s mission church at Swan Island, which also served for marriages from September 1877 through December 1879 while Atherton St John parish church was being rebuilt. In 1889 the foundation stone of a new Hindsford parish church dedicated to St Anne was laid by Mrs Mary Lee of Alder House (whose husband Thomas had laid the foundation stone for St John the Baptist, Atherton). The church was completed in 1901

The church was declared redundant on 1 November 1999, Atherton and Hindsford were united again by Pastoral Scheme under the Atherton &amp; Hindsford Team Ministry. The former church was converted to private residential accommodation.



Parish Records
Hindsford- St Anne Banns-1917-1932- MFPR 2182 Baptisms-1873-1943- MFPR 1640 or MFPR 2181 Baptisms-1943-1963- MFPR 1640 Baptisms-1963-1999- Archives L214 Marriages-1901-1943- MFPR 1641 Marriages-1943-1947- MFPR 1641 or MFPR 2182 Marriages-1947-1964- MFPR 1641 Marriages-1964-1996- Archives L214

The Manchester Room and Greater Manchester County Record Office Email: archiveslocalstudies@manchester.gov.uk

The Manchester Room@City Library (Local Studies)

Parish registers for St. Anne's Church, Hindsford, 1873-1947 Microfilm of original records in the Wigan Record Office, Leigh, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, England; and at the Manchester Archives Central Library in Manchester. Hindsford was once in the parish of Atherton, Lancashire. It became a separate parish in 1884. The church, once called St. Anne's Mission Church, is now called St. Anne's. Manchester Archives Central Library call nos.: L214/1/1/1-2; L214/1/2/1-4.

Lancashire Online Parish Clerks Project
http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/Atherton/stanne/index.html is a useful resource for images history and record information about the parish

Civil registration
Events post 1837 may be searched online Free BMD

Online index of Lancashire Births, Marriages and Deaths Lancashire BMD

Poor Law Unions
Leigh, Lancashire Poor Law Union

Probate Records
Lancashire Probate Records

Maps and Gazetteers
England Jurisdictions 1851