Dobcross, Yorkshire Genealogy

Guide to Dobcross, Yorkshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
DOBCROSS, an ecclesiastical district, in the chapelry of Saddleworth, parish of Rochdale, Upper division of the wapentake of Agbrigg, W. riding of York, 11 miles (N. E.) from Manchester.

Dobcross Holy Trinity is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1797 from Rochdale Ancient Parish.It is currently in Saddleworth Deanery, part of the Archdeanery of Rochdale, in the Anglican Diocese of Manchester.

Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, Dobcross was anciently a chapelry in the Quickmere division of Saddleworth. For centuries, Dobcross was a hamlet, sustained by domestic flannel and woollen cloth production. Many of the original 17th and 18th century barns and weavers' cottages survive today as listed buildings.

Dobcross is a village in Saddleworth—a civil parish of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England. It is located in a valley in the South Pennines, along the course of the River Tame and the Huddersfield Narrow Canal, west-southwest of Huddersfield.

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.

Church Records
Online data content from chapelry registers of Dobcross exists at some of the following websites and for the specified ranges of years:

For a full list of all those chapels surrounding Warrington-Padgate Christ Church and comprising the whole ancient parish of Rochdale to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the ROCHDALE PARISH page.

To find the names of the neighbouring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Parish registers for Holy Trinity, Dobcross Microfilm of original records in possession of the Manchester Public Libraries, now the Manchester Archives Central Library (2004) in Manchester, England, the Central Library in Oldham, England, and also the Rochdale Central Library in Rochdale, England.

Dobcross is a chapelry in the parish of Rochdale, Lancashire. The chapelry is known as Holy Trinity Church.

Manchester Archives Central Library call no.: L 271.

Baptisms 1788-1837; burials 1788-1837. FHL BRITISH Film 1484391 Baptisms, 1788-1837(another filming). Burials, 1788-1837(another filming). Vault BRITISH Film 2113161 Baptisms, burials, 1787-1790 (another filming). Baptisms, 1813-1893. FHL BRITISH Film 2356339 Items 9 - 10 Marriages, 1845-1910. Burials, 1813-1999. FHL BRITISH Film 2356340 Items 1 - 2 Baptisms and burials, 1787-1790 (includes those for Lydgate Chapel, 1787-1801). Baptisms, 1813-1920. Burials, 1813-1930. Marriages, 1845-1910. (another filming) FHL BRITISH Film 1656358 Items 3 - 7

Known issue The initial loading of images for the parish registers results in "image unavailable " message for the parish. This is a known issue awaiting future engineering. The collection images were loaded in November 2010 and the indexing of parish registers has been undertaken by FamilySearch Indexing. When the index is published it is intended to attach images to the index.

There was an error in the intiial loading for the parish.

Bishop's transcripts for Dobcross Microreproduction of original manuscripts housed at the Lancashire Record Office, Preston.

Bishop's transcripts of the chapelry of Dobcross (Holy Trinity) in Saddleworth-with-Quick township (Saddleworth), Rochdale parish, Yorkshire. The parish of Rochdale is mainly in the county of Lancashire.

Lancashire Record Office: DRM/2/304

Baptisms and burials, 1787-1842. FHL BRITISH Film 1545804 Item 1

Poor Law Unions
Rochdale Poor Law Union

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Yorkshire 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
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