Hulme St Philip, Lancashire Genealogy

Chapelry History
St Philip Hulme (Chester Street) in Manchester ancient parish, was created a district church within Manchester Our Lady, St George and St Denys Parish; exact boundary unknown. Church records begin in 1859.

The church was closed in 1973.

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

St Philip Hulme, in Manchester ancient parish, was created a district church by the year 1859. 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, see the ancient parish (Cathedral) of MANCHESTER OUR LADY, ST GEORGE, &amp; ST DENYS page.

Original Records Parish (chapelry) registers for St Philip's Church, Hulme, have been microfilmed by FamilySearch for the years 1859-1954. These microfilmed copies were of original registers filmed at the Manchester Archives Central Library in Manchester, England and formerly held at Manchester Central Library. Hulme is a township with eight parochial chapelries in Manchester parish. Manchester Archives Central Library call nos.: M320/4/1/1-8, M320/4/2/1-6.

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.

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