Bradford, Lancashire Genealogy

Chapelry History
BRADFORD, a township and a chapelry in Manchester parish, Lancashire. The township lies adjacent to the Manchester and Sheffield railway, 4 miles E of Manchester; and has a post office under Manchester. Acres, 279. Pop., 3,523. Houses, 707. The chapelry extends into Beswick township; bears the name of Bradford-cum-Beswick; and was constituted very recently. The church was built in 1862, at a cost of £6,000; and is in the early English style, and cruciform. There are Wesleyan and Free Methodist chapels, large schools built in 1864, at a cost of £3,000, and a police station.

Bradford Manchester Christ Church Chapelry was created and in operation by the year 1862, taken from Manchester All Souls, Lancashire Ecclesiastical Parish; Exact boundary unknown.

The church closed in 1958 and was demolished.

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.

Online index of Lancashire Births, Marriages and Deaths Lancashire BMD

Church records
Online Records

Christ Church Bradford Chapelry, in Manchester was created a district church by the year 18. There are online transcriptions for this and for the ancient or mother parish of Manchester Cathedral of Our Lady, St George and St Denys, for the baptism, marriage and burial registers located at the web sites indicated below; note the ranges of years:

To view a full list of all (over 150) of Manchester City's numerous chapelries and district churches and the links to online data for each, see the ancient parish (Cathedral) of MANCHESTER OUR LADY, ST GEORGE, & ST DENYS page.

Original Records Parish registers for St. Philip's Church, Bradford Road, Manchester, have been microfilmed from 1850 on. Microfilmed copy of original registers were filmed at the Manchester Archives Central Library in Manchester, England and formerly held at Manchester Central Library Manchester Archives Central Library call nos.: M299/3/1/1-9, M299/3/2/1-12.

FamilySearch call no.'s include the following:

Poor Law Unions
Manchester 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
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