Manchester St Paul, Lancashire Genealogy

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

Chapel History
The Cathedral Church of Manchester contains many parishes. St. Paul's,[located on New Cross] was erected in 1765; it was greatly enlarged, and re-consecrated in 1778, and a district has been lately assigned. This church has the largest Sunday schools perhaps in Christendom attached to it.

Manchester St Paul New Cross With St Michael and St Thomas Redbank was created as an Ecclesiastical parish in 1929. www.images.manchester.gov.uk/libraries for images of the church Manchester Libraries Image Collection

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

St Paul Manchester chapelry has online data transcriptions for many of its baptisms, marriages and burials. Since it resided within the Manchester Cathedral (the ancient parish) boundary, also note links to the parish (Cathedral) of Our Lady, St George and St Denys as well. Displayed below are the web sites indicated; note the ranges of years:

To view a full list of all of Manchester City's chapelries and district church registers and the links to their online data of baptisms, marriages and burials, see the ancient parish (Cathedral) of MANCHESTER, OUR LADY, ST GEORGE &amp; ST DENYS page.

Original Records

Parish registers for St. Paul's Church, New Cross, Manchester, 1765-1960 have been microfilmed by FamilySearch. Copies of originals are at the Manchester Central Library, Manchester, England and previously held at Manchester Central Library.

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
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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain