Manchester St George, Lancashire Genealogy

England Lancashire  Lancashire Parishes



Chapel History
St. George's, on the Middleton road, [Manchester] was built in 1790, by the Rev. Samuel Pidgeon, of Sale, and after being used by Lady Huntingdon's Connexion, was purchased and consecrated for a church in 1818: there are 1293 sittings, all free. The living is a perpetual curacy, with a chapelry district assigned; net income, £220; patron, the Bishop of Chester.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis (1848), pp. 221-247. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51130 Date accessed: 19 July 2010.

Manchester St George was created a chapel of ease in 1818 from Manchester Our Lady, St George and St Denys, Lancashire Ancient Parish. See external link below for Henry Mantell's article explaining the Collegiate Church influence on Manchester Parishes.

[Note: Some marriages appear in the registers of marriages from early to 1754, only. There are no marriages from 1754 onward.]

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
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Parish registers for St. George's Church, Oldham Road, Manchester, 1798-1901 Microfilm copy of originals formerly held at the Manchester Central Library, Manchester, England. Hulme is a township with eight parochial chapelries in Manchester parish.

Census records
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http://www.1881pubs.com/ for details of public houses in the 1881 census

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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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Hnery Mantell's article http://www.aidan.co.uk/article_manchester_cathedral.htm explains the Dean and Fellows of the Collegiate Church impact on Manchester parishes.