Gorton St James, Lancashire Genealogy

England Lancashire  Lancashire Parishes

Chapelry History
GORTON, a chapelry [by 1600], in the parish of Manchester, union of Chorlton, hundred of Salford, S. division of the county of Lancaster, 3½ miles east by southeast of Manchester. The chapel, dedicated to St. Thomas, erected by the year 1600. There are places of worship for Baptists, Wesleyans, and Unitarians. .

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

Online transcriptions exist for Gorton St James and two of its other chapelries comprising Gorton Township, including All Saints (1876), and St Mark (1862)as well as for the ancient parish of Manchester (Cathedral), Our Lady, St George and St Denys. The online data content of baptism, marriage and burial registers for these churches are located at the web sites indicated below; note the ranges of years:

To view a full list of all the (over 150) ecclesiastical parishes, chapelries and district churches in Manchester Parish, and, to see the available links to each one, be sure to visit the MANCHESTER (CATHEDRAL) OUR LADY, ST GEORGE &amp; ST DENYS page.

Original Records Original parish (chapelry) registers, from 1600 for the chapelry of St James and the later ones are located at the Manchester Central Library.

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