Middleton, Lancashire Genealogy

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

View a List of Chapelries within Middleton Parish.

Parish History
MIDDLETON St. Leonard, a market-town and a parish, in the hundred of Salford, S. division of Lancashire; containing, with the chapelries of Ainsworth and Ashworth, and the townships of Birtle cum Bamford, Hopwood, Great Lever, Pilsworth, and Thornham, is 6 miles north by northeast from Manchester.

At Ainsworth, Ashworth, Birch, and Birtle Thornham, are separate incumbencies [chapels of ease with parish registers--all of which lay within the boundary of St Leonard Middleton Parish]. There are places of worship for Independents, Primitive Methodists, Wesleyans, the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion, and Swedenborgians.

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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. Here are two outstanding Internet sites with indexes to vital births, marriages and deaths for Lancashire and England in general:


 * 1) FreeBMD - from 1837 to 1940; later (part.) with free B M Ds for the county and country
 * 2) Lancashire BMD - Online index of Lancashire Births, Marriages and Deaths; and provides the parish or place of marriages

Church Records
The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor. Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

Church of England
Chapelry is a church or churches built in a large ecclesiastical parish to help the members attend worship services closer to their homes.

Chapelries of Middleton
Online Parish Records Table

Due to the increasing access of online records: Hover over the collection's title for more information Other Websites These databases have incomplete parish coverage.
 * Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
 * Dates in the following table are approximate
 * Joiner Marriage Index - Lancashire ($)
 * The Genealogist Parish Registers - Lancashire ($)
 * UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records
 * OnLine Parish Clerks - Lancashire - OnLine Parish Clerks project for Lancashire

Non-Conformist Churches (All other Religions)

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

Genealogy
Todd, Andrew: Researching Handloom Weavers from Parish Registers. Booth and Dakin of Prestwich and Middleton. History and family tree of John Dakin and Elizabeth, 2) John and Mary Mally also Booth, dating from 1776-1880. Other surnames are Brooks, Fitlon, Holt, Joynson, Smethhurst, and Jackson. Article in The Lancashire Family History and Heraldry Soc. vol. 10. no.1. pages 36-41 FHL Ref. 942.72 B2r

Poor Law Unions
Oldham 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 Myddelton (p. 143)
 * 1622 - 1622 Subsidy of Midleton (p. 158)
 * 1665-1667 - Lancashire Hearth Tax: Lonsdale Hundred, Middleton. E 179/132/352, The National Archives. Microfilm:.

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

Websites
Here are some major websites affecting Lanacashire online family history research:

Civil Registration:


 * 1) FreeBMD - from 1837 to 1940; later (part.) with free B M Ds for the county and country
 * 2) Lancashire BMD - Online index of Lancashire Births, Marriages and Deaths; and provides the parish or place of marriages

Church Records:


 * FamilySearch.org
 * Lancashire Online Parish Clerk
 * findmypast
 * LancashireBMD
 * Ancestry.co.uk
 * FreeReg

British History Online Middleton

Pilsworth