St Anne, Hindsford,Lancashire

Parish History
Hindsford St Anne was an Ecclesiastical parish previously known as St Anne's Mission in the parish of Atherton, Lancashire and formed in 1884 as a parish.

From 1873 to 1901, Hindsford children were baptised at the small, brick, St Anne’s mission church at Swan Island, which also served for marriages from September 1877 through December 1879 while Atherton St John parish church was being rebuilt. In 1889 the foundation stone of a new Hindsford parish church dedicated to St Anne was laid by Mrs Mary Lee of Alder House (whose husband Thomas had laid the foundation stone for St John the Baptist, Atherton). The church was completed in 1901

The church was declared redundant on 1 November 1999, Atherton and Hindsford were united again by Pastoral Scheme under the Atherton &amp; Hindsford Team Ministry. The former church was converted to private residential accommodation.

Parish Records
Parish registers for St. Anne's Church, Hindsford, 1873-1947 Microfilm of original records in the Wigan Record Office, Leigh, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, England; and at the Manchester Archives Central Library in Manchester. Hindsford was once in the parish of Atherton, Lancashire. It became a separate parish in 1884. The church, once called St. Anne's Mission Church, is now called St. Anne's. Manchester Archives Central Library call nos.: L214/1/1/1-2; L214/1/2/1-4.

Lancashire Online Parish Clerks Project
http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/Atherton/stanne/index.html is a useful resource for images history and record information about the parish

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