Ancoats, All Souls

England Lancashire  Lancashire Parishes

Guide to Ancoats All Souls, Lancashire family history and genealogy: parish registers, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Chapelry History
Ancoats, a suburb of Manchester Borough, was built as a district church in the year 1839. Manchester, parl. and mun. bor., city, and township, SE. Lancashire, is located on rivers Irk, Irwell, and Medlock, 31 miles E. of Liverpool and 186 miles NW. of London. All Souls' district church, in the early Norman style, with two turrets, was erected in Everystreet, Ancoats, in 1839.

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

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
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