Halliwell St Peter, Lancashire Genealogy

Guide to Halliwell St Peter, Lancashire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: chapelry register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Chapelry History
HALLIWELL, a township, and an ecclesiastical district with two chapels (St. Paul and St. Peter), in the parish of Deane, union of Bolton, hundred of Salford, S. division of Lancashire, 1 mile northwest of Bolton. The chapel of St. Paul was built in 1848. See also Halliwell St Peter. The Wesleyans have a place of worship here.

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Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day.
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Online index of Lancashire Births, Marriages and Deaths Lancashire BMD

Church Records
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Church of England
Chapelry is a church or churches built in a large ecclesiastical parish to help the members attend worship services closer to their homes.

Online Parish Records Table

Due to the increasing access of online records: Hover over the collection's title for more information Other Websites These databases have incomplete parish coverage.
 * Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
 * Dates in the following table are approximate
 * Joiner Marriage Index - Lancashire ($)
 * The Genealogist Parish Registers - Lancashire ($)
 * UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records
 * OnLine Parish Clerks - Lancashire - OnLine Parish Clerks project for Lancashire

Non-Conformist Churches (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at Findmypast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)
 * 1647-1996 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)

Poor Law Unions
Bolton, Lancashire 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.

Taxation

 * 1541 - 1541 Subsidy of Heaton and Hallywell (p. 141)
 * 1622 - 1622 Subsidy of Heaton cum Haliwell (p. 161)

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