Salford St Philip, Lancashire Genealogy

England Lancashire  Lancashire Parishes



Parish History
St Philip, Salford was created as a district church in the year 1825. It was one of approximately seven such district churches built to handle the burdgeoning growth of population in that township. It lay within the civil parish boundaries of Manchester St Mary and St Denys (The Cathedral Church). Here is a brief 1848 historical overview for this chapelry: St. Philip's district-parish church, in Salford, a handsome edifice in the Grecian style, with a tower and semicircular portico of the Ionic order, was also erected in 1825, by grant from the commissioners, at an expense of £16,804: the living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £410; patrons, the Dean and Chapter.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis (1848), pp. 221-247. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51130 Date accessed: 21 July 2010.

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

Lancashire Online Parish Clerks
An extremely useful resource for research in Lancashire Parishes http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/

Church records
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Salford- St Philip Banns-1869-1957- MFPR 2177 Baptisms-1826-1848- MFPR 143 or MFPR 2175 Baptisms-1848-1914- MFPR 2175 Burials-1834-1888- MFPR 143 or MFPR 2177 Marriages-1838-1866- MFPR 389 Marriages-1866-1911- MFPR 389 or MFPR 2176 Marriages-1911-1935- MFPR 390 or MFPR 2177 Marriages-1935-1959- MFPR 390

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. Phillip's Church, Salford, 1826-1957 Microfilm of original records at the Manchester Public Library (1960), and formerly heldat the Manchester Archives Central Library in Manchester, England. The parish was also known as the district parish of St. Philip, Salford, Manchester.

Bishop's transcripts for Salford area churches, 1635-1889 Microreproduction of original manuscripts housed at the Lancashire Record Office, Preston. Includes the following chapelries from the town of Salford, (parish of Manchester): Trinity, Christchurch, St. Matthias, St. Phillip and St. Stephen. The title board for item 1 has incorrect dates. It should read, 1635- 1777. Lancashire Record Office: DRM/2/217-219

Census records
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http://www.1881pubs.com/ for details of public houses in the 1881 census

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.

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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