Hulme St Philip, Lancashire Genealogy

England Lancashire  Lancashire Parishes

Chapelry History
St Philip Hulme (Chester Street) in Manchester ancient parish, was created a district church within Manchester Our Lady, St George and St Denys Parish; exact boundary unknown. Church records begin in 1859.

The church was closed in 1973.

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

There are online transcriptions for many of the Manchester City ecclesiastical parishes--including the ancient parish (Cathedral) of Our Lady, St George and St Denys, and for the baptism, marriage and burial registers of many of its numerous chapelries lying within its boundaries. Displayed below are those chapelries (including the Cathedral) with available online data located at the web sites indicated below; note the ranges of years:

 Original Records  Parish registers for St. Philip's Church, Hulme, 1859-1954 Microfilm copy of original registers filmed at the Manchester Archives Central Library in Manchester, England and formerly held at Manchester Central Library. Hulme is a township with eight parochial chapelries in Manchester parish. Manchester Archives Central Library call nos.: M320/4/1/1-8, M320/4/2/1-6.

Census records
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.

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