Whitworth, Lancashire Genealogy

England Lancashire  Lancashire Parishes

Guide to Whitworth, Lancashire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: chapel register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Chapelry History
WHITWORTH, a district chapel of ease, in the parish and union of Rochdale, hundred of Salford, S. division of the county of Lancaster, 2¾ miles north by west of Rochdale. The chapel, which is dedicated to St Bartholomew, was founded by the principal inhabitants of the township, about the time when Todmorden and Milnrow chapels were built. The edifice appears to have been rebuilt in the reign of William and Mary; it was again rebuilt in 1775, and the burial-ground was consecrated about 1795. Whitworth includes the areas of Healey, Broadley, Whitworth, Facit and Shawforth.

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 Records

 * 1538 - 1910 at FamilySearch — index
 * 1603 - 1910 at FamilySearch — index and images

 Church of England 

Whitworth chapelry's registers of christenings, marriages and burials, along with those of the ancient parish of Rochdale St Chad to which it is attached, have been mostly transcribed and are displayed online at the following websites and ranges of years:

For a full list of all those chapels surrounding Whitworth and comprising the whole ancient parish of Rochdale St Chad to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the ROCHDALE ST CHAD PARISH page.

Bishop's transcripts for Whitworth, 1776-1851 Microreproduction of original manuscripts housed at the Lancashire Record Office, Preston. Bishop's transcripts of the chapelry of Whitworth (St. Bartholomew) in the township of Spotland, Rochdale parish, Lancashire. Lancashire Record Office: DRM/2/305a-305b

Non Conformist Records

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at Findmypast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)
 * 1647-1996 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)

Poor law Unions
Rochdale 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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain