Great Lever, Lancashire Genealogy

England Lancashire  Lancashire Parishes



Chapelry History
Great Lever, St Michael, was created a district church or chapelry in 1851 from, and lying within the boundaries of Middleton, Lancashire Ancient Parish.

"LEVER, GREAT, a township, in the parish of Middleton, union of Bolton, hundred of Salford, S. division of the county of Lancaster, 1½ mile (S.) from Bolton. A church was completed in 1848."

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
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

Great Lever- St Michael Baptisms-1851-1907- MFPR 606 Baptisms-1907-1930- MFPR 2035 Baptisms-1930-1997- Archives L65/1 Burials-1851-1928- MFPR 607 Burials-1928-2004- MFPR 2035 Marriages-1851-1924- MFPR 606 Marriages-1924-1950- MFPR 2035 Marriages-1950-1990- Archives L65/1

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

The Manchester Room@City Library (Local Studies)

Parish registers for the chapelry of Great Lever, 1851-1966 Microfilm copy of originals formerly held at the Manchester Central Library, Manchester, England.Great Lever is a township-chapelry in Middleton parish. The church is known as St. Michael's. Manchester Central Library call nos.: L65/1/1/1, L65/1/2/1-3, L65/1/3/1-3.

Census records
http://www.1881pubs.com/ for details of public houses in the 1881 census

Poor Law Unions
Oldham 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

Web sites
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53026 British History Online Great Lever