Ardwick St Thomas, Lancashire Genealogy

England Lancashire  Lancashire Parishes

Chapelry History
ARDWICK, a township, forming two ecclesiastical districts (with chapels), in the parish and borough of Manchester, union of Chorlton, hundred of Salford, S. division of the county of Lancaster, 1 mile southeast and east from Manchester. The township was divided into two chapel districts: st Thomas in 1831 and St Silas in 1841.

The Wesleyan Methodists and Independents have places of worship; and there is a public cemetery of eight acres, opened in 1838.

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.

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

Poor Law Unions
Chorlton Poor Law Union,Lancashire

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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