Pendlebury, Lancashire Genealogy

England Lancashire  Lancashire Parishes

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

Chapel History
PENDLEBURY (St John the Evangelist), chapelry,in the parish of Eccles, Lancashire, union and hundred of Salford, S. division of Lancashire, 4¼ miles northwest by west of Manchester. Dedicated to St John, this chapel was built by the year 1842. In 1859, Christ Church Chapelry was created as well, in this township. There is a place of worship for Independents.

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


 * Salford

Online Records

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

 Church of England 

Pendlebury chapelry's registers of christenings, marriages and burials, along with those of the ancient parish of Eccles to which it is attached, have been mostly transcribed and are displayed online at the following websites and ranges of years:

For a full list of all those chapels surrounding Pendlebury and comprising the whole ancient parish of Eccles to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the ECCLES ST MARY PARISH page.

Pendlebury- St John the Evangelist Baptisms-1842-1862- MFPR 1549 or MFPR 2007 Baptisms-1862-1930- MFPR 2007 Baptisms-1930-1980- Archives L112 Burials-1842-1945- MFPR 2008 Burials-1945-1991- MFPR 2009 Marriages-1849-1908- MFPR 2007 Marriages-1908-1930- MFPR 2008 Marriages-1930-1981- Archives L112

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

The Manchester Room@City Library (Local Studies)

Parish registers for Pendlebury, 1842-1991 Microfilm of original records formerly held at the Manchester Archives Central Library in Manchester, England. Pendlebury is a village, a township and two chapelries in Eccles parish. St. John's was formed in 1843. Manchester Archives Central Library call nos.: L 112/1/1/1-4; L 112/1/2/1-4; L 112/1/3/1-7.

Bishop's transcripts for Pendlebury, 1844-1855 Microreproduction of original manuscripts housed at the Lancashire Record Office, Preston. St. John the Evangelist in Pendlebury is a chapelry in the parish of Eccles. Lancashire Record Office: DRM/2/108a

Non Conformist Records

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at Findmypast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)
 * 1647-1996 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)

Poor Law Unions
Salford, 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.

Taxation

 * 1541 - 1541 Subsidy of Pendulburye (p. 141)


 * 1622 - 1622 Subsidy of Pendlebury (p. 154)

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain