Droylsden, Lancashire Genealogy

England Lancashire Lancashire Parishes

Chapelry History
DROYLSDEN (St Mary), a township and ecclesiastical [chapel], in the parish of Manchester, union of Ashton-underLyne, hundred of Salford, S. division of the county of Lancaster, 4 miles east of Manchester. This ecclesiastical district chapel was built in 1847.

There were chapels of worship built for Primitive Methodists and Wesleyan Methodists; and at Fairfield is a Moravian establishment, founded in 1784."

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
Online Records

Some online transcriptions exist for Droylsden St Mary Chapelry as well as for the ancient parish of Manchester Our Lady, St George and St Denys Cathedral.

To access these online transcriptions of baptisms, marriages and burials you can view them at the web sites indicated below at no cost; note the range of years:

To view a full list of (over 150) chapelries and district churches comprising the ancient parish of Manchester (Cathedral), and to see a list of links to each one, visit the MANCHESTER (CATHEDRAL) OUR LADY, ST GEORGE &amp; ST DENYS page.

Original Records

Original parish (chapelry) registers are housed at the Manchester Central Library archives.

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