Chadderton St Matthew, Lancashire Genealogy

England Lancashire  Lancashire Parishes



Chapelry History
St Matthew Chadderton was a chapelry built by the year 1846 and lying within the civil parish of Prestwich, and near Oldham.

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

Online Records
 Church of England 

Chadderton St. Matthew chapelry's registers of christenings, marriages and burials, along with those of the ancient parish of Prestwich to which it is attached, have been mostly transcribed and are displayed online at the following web sites and ranges of years:

For a full list of all those chapels surrounding Chadderton St. Matthew and comprising the whole ancient parish of Prestwich to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the PRESTWICH PARISH page.

Parish registers for St. Matthew's Church, Chadderton, 1857-1890 Microfilm copy of originals formerly held at the Manchester Central Library, Manchester, England. Manchester Central Library call nos.: L153/1/3/1-5, L153/1/4/1-3.

For Bishop's transcripts refer to filming content table in Chadderton St John, Lancashire Church records

Poor Law Unions
Oldham 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
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53010 British History Online Chadderton