Coldhurst, Lancashire Genealogy

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Guide to Coldhurst, Lancashire family history and genealogy: chapelry register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Chapelry History
Coldhurst Holy Trinity was created a district chapel (chapelry) in 1848, lying within Prestwich parish. "COLDHURST, a chapelry in Oldham township, and in Prestwich parish, Lancashire; in the north-eastern neighbourhood of Manchester. It created in 1844."

Coldhurst, an ecclesiastical...district[chapelry], in the parish of Prestwich-cum-Oldham, union of Oldham, hundred of Salford, S. division of the county of Lancaster, 7 miles northereast by north of Manchester. The district was created in October, 1844,...and the erection of a church was commenced in the summer of 1847."

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

Online Records
 Church of England 

Coldhurst chapelry's registers of christenings, marriages and burials, along with those of the ancient parish of Prestwich to which it is attached, have been mostly transcribed and are displayed online at the following web sites and ranges of years:

For a full list of all those chapels surrounding Coldhurst and comprising the whole ancient parish of Prestwich to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the PRESTWICH PARISH page.

Parish registers for Holy Trinity Church, Coldhurst, 1848-1967 Microfilm copy of originals formerly held at the Manchester Central Library, Manchester, England. Coldhurst is a chapelry in Prestwich St Mary, Lancashire parish. Manchester Central Library call nos.: L180/1/1/1-2, L180/1/2/1-8.

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.

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