Halliwell St Peter, Lancashire Genealogy

England Lancashire  Lancashire Parishes

Chapelry History
HALLIWELL, a township, and an ecclesiastical district with two chapels, in the parish of Deane, union of Bolton, hundred of Salford, S. division of Lancashire, 1 mile northwest of Bolton. The church of St Paul's, was built in 1848. See also Halliwell St Peter.

The Wesleyans have a place of worship here.

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 

Halliwell St Peter chapelry's registers of christenings, marriages and burials, along with those of the ancient parish of Deane 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 Halliwell St Peter and comprising the whole ancient parish of Deane to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the DEANE ST MARY PARISH page.

Poor Law Unions
Bolton, 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.

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
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