Salford St Stephen, Lancashire Genealogy

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

Chapelry History
St. Stephen's, Salford, a neat building of brick ornamented with stone, with a handsome tower, was founded in 1794. It was one of approximately ten such district churches built to handle the burgeoning growth of population in that township. It lay within the civil parish boundaries of Manchester St Mary and St Denys (The Cathedral Church).

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

Online transcriptions exist for Salford St Stephen's Chapelry and its eleven sister chapelries comprising this very large suburb in Manchester ancient parish (the Cathedral of Our Lady, St George and St Denys). Displayed below are the links to the available ranges of years for which online data (transcriptions) are located:

To view a full list of all (150-plus) chapelries, ecclesiastical parishes and district chapels in the ancient parish of Manchester, and their links to online data for their baptism, marriage and burial registers, visit the MANCHESTER (CATHEDRAL), OUR LADY, ST GEORGE &amp; ST DENYS page.

Original Records

Original parish and chapel registers are held at the Manchester Record Office, William Brown Street, Manchester L3 8EW, United Kingdom. Salford- St Stephen Banns-1931-1956- MFPR 2178 Baptisms-1794-1812- MFPR 144 or MFPR 2177 Baptisms-1812-1956- MFPR 144 Burials-1794-1813- MFPR 146 Burials-1813-1846- MFPR 146 or MFPR 2178 Burials-1847-1856- MFPR 146 or MFPR 2178 Burials-1856-1872- MFPR 146 Marriages-1838-1915- MFPR 145 Marriages-1915-1921- MFPR 146 Marriages-1921-1956- MFPR 146 or MFPR 2178 Marriages-1956-1957- MFPR 2178

The Manchester Room and Greater Manchester County Record Office Email: archiveslocalstudies@manchester.gov.uk

The Manchester Room@City Library (Local Studies)

Parish registers for St. Stephen's Church, Salford, 1794-1957 ofilm of original records formerly held at the Manchester Archives Central Library in Manchester, England. Manchester Archives Central Library call no.: L192.

Bishop's transcripts for Salford area churches, 1635-1889

Non Conformist Records

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

Poor Law Unions
Salford, Lancashire 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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