Prestwich St Mary, Lancashire Genealogy

Guide to Prestwich St Mary, Lancashire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records. See a "Comprehensive List of Parish and Chapelries of Prestwich Parish"

Parish History
PRESTWICH (St Mary), a parish, in the hundred of Salford, S. division of Lancashire; comprising the parochial chapelry of Oldham (in which are the townships of Oldham, Chadderton, Crompton, and Royton), and the townships of Alkrington, Great and Little Heaton, Pilkington, and Tonge, 4 miles northwest by west of Manchester. There were churches built in the ecclesiastical districts of Ringley, Stand, and Unsworth, all in Pilkington township; a church at Tonge, and numerous chapelries as well in the parochial chapelry of Oldham. Other places in the parish include: Outwood, Pilkington, Prestolee, Little Heaton, Rigley, Great Heaton, and Rayton. In Prestwich parish are also numerous places of worship for dissenters; in Prestwich township is one for Wesleyan Methodists. The Independents, Primitive Methodists, Unitarians, and Swedenborgians have places of worship.

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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


 * Manchester 1837-1874
 * Prestwich 1874-1925
 * Mancester North 1925-1934
 * Heywood 1934-1974
 * Greater Manchester post 1974

Church Records
The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor. Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

Church of England
Chapelry is a church or churches built in a large ecclesiastical parish to help the members attend worship services closer to their homes.

Chapelries of Prestwich St Mary
Online Parish Records Table

Due to the increasing access of online records: Hover over the collection's title for more information Other Websites These databases have incomplete parish coverage.
 * Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
 * Dates in the following table are approximate
 * Joiner Marriage Index - Lancashire ($)
 * The Genealogist Parish Registers - Lancashire ($)
 * UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records
 * OnLine Parish Clerks - Lancashire - OnLine Parish Clerks project for Lancashire

Genealogy
Todd, Andrew: Booth and Dakin of Prestwich and Middleton. History and Family Tree of John and 1) Elizabeth Dakin 2) John and Mary Mally Booth with the following surnames, Brooks, Fitlon, Holt, Joynson, Smethurst, and Jackson, dating from 1776-1880. Article in The Lancashire Family History and Heraldry Soc. Magazine vol. 10 no. 1, pages 36-41. FHL Ref. 942.72 B2r

Burrows, Constance: Holt of Tottington: From a Family Bible. Family tree of James Holt and Jane Crampton married in Bury 1716, with the following descendant surnames. Wolfenden, Amphlett, Cunliffe, Roscow, scattered through, Prestwich, Bispham, and Whitefield, dating from 1716-1983, to be found in The Lancashire Family History and Heraldry Soc. Magazine vol. 10, no.4. pages 28-29.

Poor Law Unions
Prestwich 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.

Taxation

 * 1541 - 1541 Subsidy of Prestwyche (p. 143)
 * 1541 - 1541 Subsidy of Pylynton (p. 143)
 * 1622 - 1622 Subsidy of Prestwich (p. 155)
 * 1622 - 1622 Subsidy of Pilkington (p. 155)

Maps and Gazetteers
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Websites
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