Pendlebury Christ Church, Lancashire Genealogy

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
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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
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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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England_Jurisdictions_1851 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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