Bolton le Moors Holy Trinity, Lancashire Genealogy

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

Chapelry History
The large chapel of (Holy Trinity) in Bolton-le-Moors was built by the year 1825 and stood in the civil parish boundaries of St Peter Bolton-Le-Moors. It lies in the districts of Bolton, Wigan, and Chorley, Lancashire. Bolton Town contains the townships of Great Bolton, Little Bolton, Sharples, Quarlton, Edgeworth, Entwistle, Longworth, Turton, Bradshaw, Haulgh, Tonge, Breightmet, Harwood, Lostock, Darcy-Lever, Blackrod, Anglezarke, and Rivington, and the chapelry of Little Lever.There are also places of worship for Baptists,Independents, Unitarians, the Society of Friends,Swedenborgians, Methodists, and Roman Catholics;and, besides these, ten churches in chapelries and rural townships within the parish.

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 Holy Trinity 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 Holy Trinity 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.

Parish registers for Holy Trinity Church, Bolton-le-Moors, 1826-1978 are housed at the at the Bolton Libraries Archives Department, Bolton.

The town of Bolton is in the parish of Bolton-le-Moors.

Bolton- Holy Trinity

Burial transcripts 1842-1930 are available on-line at Lancashire Online Parish Clerks.

Banns-1857-1857- MFPR 1933 Baptisms-1826-1868- MFPR 1927 Baptisms-1868-1877- MFPR 1928 Baptisms-1877-1939- MFPR 1929 Baptisms-1939-1978- MFPR 1930 Baptisms-1978-1990- Archives L196 Burials-1827-1843- MFPR 1927 Burials-1843-1856- MFPR 1933 Burials-1856-1878- Archives L196 Marriages-1857-1869- MFPR 1930 Marriages-1869-1897- MFPR 1931 Marriages-1897-1950- MFPR 1932 Marriages-1950-1961- MFPR 1933 Marriages-1961-1990- Archives L196

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

The Manchester Room@City Library (Local Studies)

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