Manchester All Souls, Lancashire Genealogy

England Lancashire  Lancashire Parishes

Chapelry History
All Souls' district church [was created], in the early Norman style, with two turrets, [and] was erected in Every Street, Ancoats, in 1839, by subscription, and by a grant of £500 from the Incorporated and Diocesan Societies; it contains 1397 sittings, of which 697 are free. It was created from, and lying within the boundaries of Manchester Our Lady, St George and St Denys, Lancashire

Adapted from: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis (1848), pp. 221-247. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51130 Date accessed: 19 July 2010.

All Souls, Every St, Ancoats, M4 7DT Founded: 1840 Closed: 1984 Chapelry registers may be found in Manchester St Ann, Lancashire parish

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
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Bishop's transcripts for All Soul's Church, Manchester, 1763-1847 Microreproduction of original manuscripts housed at the Lancashire Record Office, Preston. Filmed with: Bishop's transcripts, 1763, 1810-1845 / Church of England. St. Ann's Church (Manchester). The church became known as All Soul's Ancoats in 1850. Ancoats is a suburb within Manchester. Lancashire Record Office: DRM/2/186/4

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

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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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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Henry Mantell's article http://www.aidan.co.uk/article_manchester_cathedral.htm explains the influence of the Dean and Fellows of the Collegiate church on Manchester Parish records