A Comprehensive List of All Pre-1851 Manchester Parishes and Chapelries

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Recognizing that all authoritative treatises on Lancashire's ancient and civil parishes differ from one another--some much more than others--in their data regarding all Manchester [ecclesiastical] districts and townships with chapelries, of necessity several key reference publications and resources have been used here to compile a more comprehensive list of Manchester parishes and all its associated chapelries.

Below listed is the most comprehensive list of all pre-1851 Manchester parishes and chapelries and their registers available through the England Church records collection at The Family History Library's and its 4,500 Family History Centers worldwide:

Manchester All Saints - 1819

Manchester St Andrew 1831 (see Ancoats)

Manchester St Ann - 1736

Manchester St Clement Lever St - 1793

Manchester St George Oldham Rd - 1798

Manchester St Mary, St Dennis &amp; St George (Cathedral) - 1573

Manchester St James George St - 1784

Manchester St John Deansgate - 1769

Manchester St Luke - 1804 (a non-"consecrated chapel")

Manchester St Mary - 1754

Manchester St Matthew - 1825

Manchester St Michael Angel Meadow - 1791

Manchester St Paul's New Cross - 1765

Manchester St Peter - 1795

Manchester St Philip's Church - 1850 Manchester St Philip Church, Bradford - 1816

Manchester St Simon &amp; St Jude's - 1842 The following chapelries were included as part of and came under the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Parish of Manchester:

Ancoats Christ Church - 1824 (became Bible Christian)

Ancoats All Souls - 1840

Ancoats St Andrews - 1831

Ancoats St Jude's - 1837

Ardwick St Thomas - 1740

Ardwick St Silas - 1842

Birch St James - 1752 (also known as Birch-in-Rusholme) Blackley St Andrews - 1850

Broughton-cum-Kersal - 1839

Burials online - 1850-present Blackley St Peter - 1655

Cheetham St Luke - 1839

Cheetham St Thomas, Redbank - 1844

Cheetham St Mark, Redbank - 1794

Chorlton cum Hardy St Clement - 1737

Chorlton-upon-Medlock St Luke - 1805

Chorlton-upon-Medlock All Saints - 1814

Chorlton-upon-Medlock St Saviours - 1836

Denton St Lawrence - 1695

Denton Christ Church - 1848 Denton St George, Danebank - 1841

Didsbury St James - 1561

Droylsden St Mary - 1848

Failsworth - 1845

Gorton St James - 1600

Heaton-Mersey St John The Baptist - 1850

Heaton-Norris St Thomas - 1769

Heaton-Norris Christ Church - 1846

Harpurhey Christ Church - 1838

Hulme Christ Church 1835 (burials only; write the Lancashire Record Office for searching additional years and events)

Hulme St George - 1828

Hulme St Mark - 1847

Hulme Holy Trinity - 1843 Longsight St John - 1846

Moss-Side - 1850

Newton All Saints - 1655 (sometimes referred to as "Newton-Heath"; see also Birch uin Rusholme)

Pendleton near Salford St Thomas - 1776

Paddington St Paul - 1846

Salford Sacred Trinity - 1636

Salford St Philip - 1826

Salford St Stephen - 1794

Salford, Christ Church - 1831

Salford St Bartholomew - 1842 Salford St Matthias - 1842

Stretford St Matthews - 1599 Salford St Simon - 1846 Whalley Range St Margaret - 1849

Withington St Paul - 1841

For finding additional chapelries and district churches built after 1851, we strongly recommend the following online reference aids:


 * Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales. Wilson, John M. London [1870] - one of the best aids for identifying chapelries or district churches from 1851 to about 1868, and the civil [and ecclesiastical] parish to which they were attached.
 * Lancashire Record Office website: click on "Church Registers" - search under name of ancient parish to find the names of all associated or attached chapels of ease or district church names.
 * Cassell's Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland. London: 1900 - gives the township chapels and district churches for each ancient parish in Lancashire. Somewhat helpful aid; this published work does not always provide--from an ancient parish perspective--the names of each chapelry and when commissioned or built.

Helpful Links: 

Some of the chapelries of Manchester and their christening, marriage and burial registers have also been indexed and posted online at the Lancashire "Online Parish Clerk" project.

The website, "A Church Near You" provides some information on some chapelries (and parishes): www.achurchnearyou.com

Bibliography:

Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, by Youngs, Frederic A. Pub: The Royal Historical Society, London 1991

Topographical Dictionary of England. Lewis Samuel. Pub: Samuel A. Lewis &amp; Co. London 1841 &amp;1831

A Comprehensive Gazetteer of England. Bell, James. A. Pub.: Fullarton &amp; Co. Glasgow 1836

Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales. A. Fullarton &amp;amp; Co. Glasgow and London ca. 1869 (see also VisionOfBritain.org.uk)

Atlas &amp; Index to Parish Registers. Edited by Cecil Humphrey-Smith. Pub by Phillimore &amp; Co. Ltd.Chichester, Sussex. 2003.