Manchester St Barnabas, Lancashire Genealogy

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

Chapelry History
St. Barnabas' church, Rodney-street, Manchester, in the densely-populated district of Islington, another of the ten [district Manchester] churches, was commenced in March 1842, and consecrated in November 1844. An ecclesiastical parish has been assigned to it. .

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

 * 1538 - 1910 at FamilySearch — index
 * 1603 - 1910 at FamilySearch — index and images

Online Records

There are online transcriptions for St Barnabas in the City of Manchester and for the ancient parish (Cathedral) of Our Lady, St George and St Denys. Displayed below are links to online data for the chapelry of St Barnabas as well as for the Cathedral located at the web sites indicated below; note the ranges of years:

To view a full list of Manchester City's over 150 chapelries and online data available for each one, see the Parish (Cathedral) of MANCHESTER OUR LADY, ST GEORGE &amp; ST DENYS page.

Original Records

FamilySearch has microfilmed the original Parish registers for St. Barnabas' Church, Manchester, 1867-1957 Microfilm copy of original registers filmed at the Manchester Archives Central Library in Manchester, England and formerly held at Manchester Central Library. Manchester Archives Central Library call nos.: M365/1/1/3-4, M365/2/2, 4-6.

Non Conformist Records

 * 1647-1996 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)

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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain