Heywood St James, Lancashire Genealogy

Guide to Heywood St James, Lancashire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: chapelry register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Chapelry History
Heywood (St James) was one of two chapels serving the township of Heywood; it was built as a chapel of ease in the year 1838 and lay within the civil parish boundary of Bury. The town stands on the Rochdale canal, and on the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway, near the river Roch. The modern parish is in the Heywood and Middleton Deanery of the diocese of Manchester.

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 

Heywood St James chapelry's registers of christenings, marriages and burials, along with those of the ancient parish of Bury 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 Heywood St James and comprising the whole ancient parish of Bury to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the BURY ST MARY PARISH page.

For ealier records search Heywood, Lancashire.

Parish registers for St. James' Church, Heywood, 1838-1980 Microfilm copy of originals formerly held at the Manchester Central Library, Manchester, England. Heywood is a chapelry in Bury parish. St. James' Church was created from the original chapelry in 1720. Manchester Central Library call nos.: L170/1/1/1-7, L170/1/2/1-9, L170/1/3/1-3, L170/1/4.

Non Conformist Records

 * 1647-1996 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)

Poor Law Unions
Bury Poor Law Union, Lancashire

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