Deane, Lancashire Genealogy

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Here is A Comprehensive List of Chapelries in Deane Parish.

Parish History
"DEANE St Mary, a parish, in the union of Bolton-le-Moors, hundred of Salford, S. division of the county of Lancaster, 1 mile southwest by west of Bolton. It comprises the townships of Heaton, Middle and Over Hulton, and Rumworth, which constitute the district attached to the parish church; and Halliwell, Horwich, Little Hulton, and West Houghton, which are separate chapelri. In the parish are five episcopal chapels, and several dissenting places of worship."

Deane St Mary is an Ancient Parish in the county of Lancashire. Little Hulton, Lancashire is a chapelry of Deane. Other places in the parish include: Heaton, Rumworth, Over Hulton, and Middle Hulton

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.

Church records
Online Records

Deane Parish has parish registers data content available online for its parish registers as well as for its several smaller attached chapelries, at the following web sites and range of years:

Below are some of the Deane Parish registers available at the Family History Lbirary, Salt Lake City and its satellite familysearch centres worldwide:

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Parish registers for Deane, 1636-1890 Microfilm copy of originals formerly held at the Manchester Central Library, Manchester, England.Manchester Central Library call nos.: L85/1/1/1-2, L85/1/2/1-7, L85/1/3/1-19, L85/1/4/1-9.

Bishop's transcripts for Deane, 1613-1885 Microreproduction of original manuscripts housed at the Lancashire Record Office, Preston. Text in Latin and English. Lancashire Record Office: DRM/2/67-76

Lancshire Online Parish Clerks
An extremely useful resource for the parish history and transcripts of Baptisms. marriages and Burials can be found at http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/Bolton-le-Moors/Deane/stmary/index.html

Census records
http://www.1881pubs.com/ for details of public houses in the 1881 census

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.

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