Cheetham Hill St Mark, Lancashire Genealogy

England Lancashire  Lancashire Parishes

Chapelry History
"CHEETHAM, [St Mark,] a township [chapelry as of 1794], in the parish and union of Manchester, hundred of Salford, S. division of the county of Lancaster, 2 miles north by west of Manchester. The river Irwell separates the township from Salford. St Luke's ecclesiastical district was created in 1839 (which see) to include portions of Crumpsall and Broughton. St. Thomas Redbank Church, at the corner of Derby-street, was built by 1843. There were two meeting-houses for Wesleyan Methodists, with a burial-ground and a school attached to one of them; also a place of worship for Associated Methodists. St. Chad's Roman Catholic chapel, in York-street, was built in 1847."

Cheetham Hill St Mark is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Lancashire, created in 1839 from Manchester Our Lady, St George and St Denys, Lancashire Ancient Parish. Other places in the parish include: Crumpsall, and  Cheetham St Luke.

Consecrated as chapelry 24th July 1794 by Dr. William Markham the 22nd Bishop of Chester as chapelry within the Chester Diocese. The Rev. Charles Ethelston became the first vicar. The church closed in 1982 and was demolished c.1998

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
Online Records

Online transcriptions for Cheetham St Mark Redbank Chapelry exist, as well as for the ancient parish of Manchester Our Lady, St George, and St Denys--to which it was 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

The original registers formerly held at the Manchester Central Library, Manchester, England. Cheetham is a chapelry with at least four chapelries by 1880, in Manchester parish.

FamilySearch has microfilm copies of the original parish (chapel) registers for St. Mark's Church, Cheetham, 1794-1982. Microfilm copies of originals formerly held at the Manchester Central Library, Manchester, England. Cheetham St Mark is a chapelry in Manchester parish. Original records are held at Manchester Central Library call nos.: M387/1/1/7-9, M387/1/2/2-8.

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

Poor Law Union
Manchester 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

Web sites
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=41413 British History Online Cheetham including manorial history of the township