Blackley St Peter, Lancashire Genealogy

England Lancashire  Lancashire Parishes

Chapelry History
BLACKLEY, a chapelry [as of 1655], in the parish and union of Manchester, hundred of Salford, S. division of the county of Lancaster, 3½ miles north by northeast of Manchester. The chapel, dedicated to St. Peter, was previously to the Reformation a domestic chapel belonging to Blackley Hall. There are places of worship for Wesleyan Methodists and Unitarians.

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 and indexes exist for Blackley St Peter's Chapelry and its sister chapelry, St Nadrews, as well as for the ancient parish of Manchester Our Lady, St George and St Denys to which these chapelries were attached. The web site links to the online data are listed below; note the range of years available:

To view a full list of all of the (over 150) chapelries and district churches in the ancient parish of Manchester (Cathedral), and links to all the online transcriptions/indexes to each, be sure to visit the MANCHESTER OUR LADY, ST GEORGE &amp; ST DENYS page.

Original Records Parish registers for St. Peter's Church, Blackley, 1655-1896 Microfilm of original records formerly held in the Manchester Central Library, Manchester. Blackley is a chapelry in the parish of Manchester. Manchester Archives Central Library call nos.: M 441/1/1/1-2, 4; M 441/1/3/1-4; M 441/1/4/1; M 441/1/5/1-4.

FamilySearch has also microfilmed these original chapelry (parish) registers as follows:

Poor Law Unions
Prestwich 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.

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