Weaste St Luke, Lancashire Genealogy

History
Weaste St Luke Liverpool Street Weaste was created in 1865 from Eccles, Lancashire Ancient Parish

The name is from Old French waste meaning "common land, waste".

The church is a grade II listed building designed by George Gilbert Scott. Emily Pankhurst, the women's suffragette leader, was married in St Lukes in 1879. Emmeline Goulden married reforming lawyer Richard Marsden Pankhurst at St Luke’s

19th century cotton firm Ermen &amp; Engels — part-owned by the father of Friedrich Engels — established their second factory in 1837 near Weaste Station, on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway line. A young Friedrich worked for the factory in their offices based around the Royal Exchange, Manchester.

In 1878 a chapel in memory of Edward Tootal, one of the early benefactors, was added to the East end of the north aisle. The church was redecorated and reordered in the 1920s, but since then it has remained largely unchanged. The stained glass particularly in the Tootal chapel is noteworthy.



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

Church records
 parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Parish registers for Weaste, 1865-1945 Microfilm of original records formerly held at the Manchester Archives Central Library in Manchester, England. Weaste is a chapelry in Eccles parish. The church is known as St. Luke's. Manchester Archives Central Library call nos.: L136/1/1/1-7; L 136/1/2/1-11.

Weaste- St Luke Baptisms-1865-1918- MFPR 1829 or MFPR 2019 Baptisms-1918-1925- MFPR 1830 or MFPR 2019 Baptisms-1925-1936- MFPR 1830 Burials-1951-1961- MFPR 1832 Marriages-1866-1889- MFPR 1830 or MFPR 2019 Marriages-1889-1904- MFPR 1830 or MFPR 2020 Marriages-1904-1913- MFPR 1831 or MFPR 2020 Marriages-1913-1923- MFPR 1831 or MFPR 2021 Marriages-1923-1937- MFPR 1832 or MFPR 2021 Marriages-1937-1945- MFPR 1832 or MFPR 2022

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

The Manchester Room@City Library (Local Studies)

Census records
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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

Websites
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http://www.salfordchurch.org/St_Luke.html for details of the parish of St Luke with All Saints.

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=41443 British History online

http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-471569-church-of-st-luke-salford British Listed Buildings site