Pendlebury Christ Church, Lancashire Genealogy

History
In 1881 Edward Robson, the reverend of St John's Pendlebury petitioned the Lord Bishop of Manchester, James Prince, requesting that another church was needed for the people of Pendlebury whose population had grown rapidly. Robson's successful campaign meant that Christ Church was completed and consecrated on the 24th December 1859 at a cost of £3000 which was raised by public subscription. The architect was W R Corson of St James Square Manchester. The church was built on a corner plot situated at the junction of Bolton Road and Pendlebury Road.

The church was adorned with a communion table, font, pulpit and reading desk. It could accommodate 587 persons.

In 1861 the church tower was added at a cost of £1095 and in 1880 the vicarage was built at a cost of £2028.

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 Free BMD.

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
Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

Pendlebury- Christ Church Baptisms-1859-1986- MFPR 1541 Burials-1859-1986- MFPR 1544 or MFPR 2017 Burials-1986-1988- MFPR 1544 Marriages-1862-1913- MFPR 1542 Marriages-1913-1926- MFPR 1543 Marriages-1926-1950- MFPR 1543 or MFPR 2017 Marriages-1950-1985- MFPR 1543

The Manchester Room and Greater Manchester County Record Office Email: archiveslocalstudies@manchester.gov.uk

The Manchester Room@City Library (Local Studies)

Parish registers for Christ Church, Pendlebury, 1859-1989 Microfilm of original records formerly held at the Manchester Archives Central Library in Manchester, England. Pendlebury is a village, a township and two chapelries in Eccles parish. Christ Church became an ecclesiastical parish in 1861. Manchester Archives Central Library call nos.: L 63/2/2/1-4.

Census records
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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