Ashton under Lyne Christ Church, Lancashire Genealogy

Guide to Ashton under Lyne Christ Church, Lancashire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Chapel History
ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, a market town, parish, parliamentary borough, and the head of a union, in the hundred of Salford, S. division of the county of Lancaster, 6 miles (E.)from Manchester, 58 (S. E.)from Lancaster, and 197(N. W. by N.) from London. The district of Christ Church was constituted in March, 1846, and became an ecclesiastical parish in 1847. The church is situated in the Charlestown suburb.

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

 * 1538 - 1910 at FamilySearch — index
 * 1603 - 1910 at FamilySearch — index and images

Online Records
 Church of England 

Ashton under Lyne Christ Church chapelry's registers of christenings, marriages and burials, along with those of the ancient parish of Ashton under Lyne St. Michael 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 Ashton under Lyne Christ Church and comprising the whole ancient parish of Ashton under Lyne St. Michael to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the ASHTON UNDER LYNE ST MICHAEL PARISH page.

Non-Conformist Churches

 * 1647-1996 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)

Census Records
The White Family Leitrim to Lidcombe via Lancashire by Morling, Loreley A. Family history and 2 family trees of Henry White and first wife Anne Robinson and 2nd wife Mary Rutherford dating from 1818-1978, to be found in The Lancashire Family History and Heraldry Soc. Magazine, vol. 13 no.2, pages 16-25, FHL Ref. 942.72 B2r vol. 13.

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
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Ashton under Lyne on GENUKI