Barton upon Irwell, Lancashire Genealogy

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Chapelry History
BARTON-UPON-IRWELL, a township, in the parish of Eccles, hundred of Salford, S. division of the county of Lancaster, 5½ miles west by south from Manchester. A church dedicated to St. Catherine... was consecrated on the 25th of October, 1843. There are places of worship for Wesleyan Methodists, Independents, Independent Methodists, the New Connexion Methodists, Unitarians, and Roman Catholics. [Other places in the parish include: Croft, Davyhulme, Irlam, Lostock, Caddishead, New Hall, Whittleswick, Winton, Bromyhurst, and Monton.]

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
Barton upon Irwell chapelry's registers of christenings, marriages and burials, along with those of the ancient parish of Eccles St Mary 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 Barton upon Irwell and comprising the whole ancient parish of Eccles to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the ECCLES ST MARY PARISH page.

Bishop's transcripts for Eccles, 1613-1864 Microreproduction of original manuscripts housed at the Lancashire Record Office, Preston. Bishop's transcripts from the parish of Eccles and the chapelries of St. Thomas' (Pendleton), St. Peter's (Swinton), Ellenbrook, St. Paul's (Walkden Moor), St. John's (Pendlebury), St. Catherine's (Barton-upon-Irwell) and St. Mark's (Worsley). Lancashire Record Office: DRM/2/82-108

Poor Law Unions
Barton upon Irwell 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.

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