Hulme Christ Church, Lancashire Genealogy

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Guide to Hulme Christ Church, Lancashire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: chapelry register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Chapelry History
Hulme (Christ Church) was a cemetery chapel built by the year 1835; it, along with ten chapelries served Hulme Township and all of which stood within the parish boundaries of Manchester. It is in the union of Chorlton, hundred of Salford, S. division of Lancashire. It is separated from the city of Manchester by the river Medlock.

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

Online transcriptions for Hulme St Mark Chapelry exist. The links to online transcriptions include also most of its additional 10 sister chapelries. These chapelries comprise the large township of Hulme, which partly comprises one of the larger chapelry districts within the boundary of the ancient parish of Manchester (Cathedral) Our Lady, St George, and St Denys--to which all were attached.

Links to online baptisms, marriages and burials registers are displayed below and located at the web sites indicated; note the ranges of years:

To view a full list of all chapelries and district churches in the ancient parish of Manchester and their respective links to online transcriptions of their baptisms, marriages and burials, be sure to visit the MANCHESTER (CATHEDRAL) OUR LADY, ST GEORGE &amp; ST DENYS page.

Original Records

Original parish (chapelry) registers for St. Mark's, Hulme, 1847-1941 exist and are housed at the Manchester Central Library, Manchester, England.

Hulme Christ Church was cemetery chapel and stood within the parochial township of and was one of ten Hulme Township chapelries--and all within Manchester ancient parish's boundary. Manchester Central Library call nos. are: M383/1/1/1-10, M383/1/2/1-9, M383/1/3/1-8.

FamilySearch has also microfilmed all ten of these original parish (chapelry) registers and including Christ Church cemetery and crematoria chapel. To see the original chapel registers of a few of the extant burials, see the FamilySearch Catalog online.

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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