Bolton le Moors Holy Trinity, Lancashire Genealogy

England Lancashire  Lancashire Parishes



Chapelry History
The large chapel of Holy Trinity Bolton-le-Moors was built by the year 1825 and stood in the civil parish boundaries of St Peter Bolton-Le-Moors.

"BOLTON-LE-MOORS, a parish in the districts of Bolton, Wigan, and Chorley, Lancashire. It comprises Bolton Town, and contains the townships of Great Bolton, Little Bolton, Sharples, Quarlton, Edgeworth, Entwistle, Longworth, Turton, Bradshaw, Haulgh, Tonge, Breightmet, Harwood, Lostock, Darcy-Lever, Blackrod, Anglezarke, and Rivington, and the chapelry of Little Lever.

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
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

Parish registers for Holy Trinity Church, Bolton-le-Moors, 1826-1978 Microreproduction of original records housed at the Bolton Libraries Archives Department, Bolton. The town of Bolton is in the parish of Bolton-le-Moors.

Bolton- Holy Trinity

Burial transcripts 1842-1930 are available on-line at Lancashire Online Parish Clerks.

Banns-1857-1857- MFPR 1933 Baptisms-1826-1868- MFPR 1927 Baptisms-1868-1877- MFPR 1928 Baptisms-1877-1939- MFPR 1929 Baptisms-1939-1978- MFPR 1930 Baptisms-1978-1990- Archives L196 Burials-1827-1843- MFPR 1927 Burials-1843-1856- MFPR 1933 Burials-1856-1878- Archives L196 Marriages-1857-1869- MFPR 1930 Marriages-1869-1897- MFPR 1931 Marriages-1897-1950- MFPR 1932 Marriages-1950-1961- MFPR 1933 Marriages-1961-1990- Archives L196

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

The Manchester Room@City Library (Local Studies)

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

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.

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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