Hollinwood, Lancashire Genealogy

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

Chapelry History
HOLLINWOOD, a village and a chapelry in Prestwich parish, Lancashire. The village stands near the Rochdale canal and the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway, 1½ mile SSW of Oldham.There are an Independent chapel of 1866, Baptist and Wesleyan chapels, and national-schools.

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

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

 Church of England 

Hollinwood 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 Hollinwood and comprising the whole ancient parish of Prestwich to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the PRESTWICH ST MARY PARISH page.

Parish registers for St. Margaret's Church, Hollinwood, 1769-1955 Microfilm copy of originals formerly held at the Manchester Central Library, Manchester, England. Hollinwood is a chapelry in Prestwich parish. The chapelry was also known as St. Margaret's Church. Manchester Central Library call nos.: L41/1/2/4-10, L41/1/3/2-9, L41/1/4/3-7, L41/1/5/1-2.

Bishop's transcripts for Hollinwood, 1796-1854 Microreproduction of original manuscripts housed at the Lancashire Record Office, Preston. Bishop's transcripts of the Chapelry of Hollinwood (St. Margaret), in the parish of Prestwich, Lancashire, England. Hollinwood is a village near the city of Oldham and was often referred to as Oldham Hollinwood. The title board for item 3 should say Hollinwood, not Coldhurst. Baptisms and burials are also with the Oldham registers from 1782-1812. Lancashire Record Office: DRM/2/249a-250

Non Conformist Records

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

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