Bolton le Moors All Saints, Lancashire Genealogy

England   Lancashire  Lancashire Parishes

Chapelry History
Bolton, Little [All Saints] was created a chapel of ease in 1745 from Bolton le Moors St Peter, Lancashire Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Eagley Bank, Little Bolton Lower End, Little Bolton Higher End, and Horrocks Fold.

The church closed in 1966.

BOLTON-LE-MOORS(St. Peter), a parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of Salford, S.division of the county of Lancaster; comprising the borough and market-townof Bolton, the chapelries ofBlackrod, Bradshaw, Harwood, Little Lever, and Turton, and the townships of Anglezarke, Breightmet, Edgeworth, Entwistle, DarcyLever, Longworth, Lostock, Quarlton, Rivington, Sharples, and Tonge with Haulgh. Bolton, 43 miles (S. S. E.) from Lancaster, and 197 (N. W. by N.) from London.

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.

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Online Records
 Church of England 

Bolton Le Moors All Saints chapelry's registers of christenings, marriages and burials, along with those of the ancient parish of Bolton Le Moors St. Peter 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 Bolton Le Moors All Saints and comprising the whole ancient parish of Bolton Le Moors St. Peter to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the BOLTON LE MOORS ST PETER PARISH page.

Original Records

The Manchester City Library has the following registers housed in its facilities for Bolton- All Saints:

Baptisms-1796-1808- MFPR 1018 Baptisms-1813-1966- MFPR 1925 Baptisms Transcript-1796-1872- Archives L265 Burials-1796-1801- MFPR 1025 Burials-1813-1858- MFPR 1926 Burials Transcript-1796-1858- Archives L265 Marriages-1857-1873- MFPR 1925 Marriages-1873-1966- MFPR 1926

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

The Manchester Room@City Library (Local Studies)

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.

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