Bolton le Moors St Peter, Lancashire Genealogy

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Here is a Comprehensive List of Chapelries in Bolton le Moors Parish

Parish History
Bolton le Moors St Peter is an Ancient Parish and a market town in the county of Lancashire.

Other places in the parish include: Entwistle, Great Bolton, Eastern, Gale Paper Works, Great Bolton, Western, Haulgh, High Houses, Longworth, Lostock, Old Hams (Oldhams), Picadilly, Quarlton, Rivington, Sharples, Sharples Higher End, Sharples Lower End, Sweet Loves, West, Anglezark, Anglezarke, Bank Top, Belmont, Bolton, Breightmet, Darcy Lever, East, Edgeworth, Entwisle, and Folds.

"BOLTON-LE-MOORS St Peter, a parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of Salford, S. division of the county of Lancaster; comprising the borough and market-town of Bolton, the chapelries of Blackrod, Bradshaw, Harwood, Little Lever, and Turton, and the townships of Anglezarke, Breightmet, Edgeworth, Entwistle, DarcyLever, Longworth, Lostock, Quarlton, Rivington, Sharples, and Tonge with Haulgh. Little Bolton was about 43 miles south by southeast of the City of  Lancaster. For research purposes, here is a Comprehensive List of Chapelries in Bolton le Moors St Peters Parish.

There was a Scottish chapel built in 1846 as well as chapels for worship for Baptists, Independents, Unitarians, the Society of Friends, Swedenborgians, Methodists, and Roman Catholics. A French Chapel existed at one time due to the French refugees settling in this town. See Lewis' Topographical Dictionary of England for a helpful 19th Century historical perspective.

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

Lancashire Online Parish Clerks
An extremely useful resource for research in Lancashire Parishes http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/

Church records
Online Records

There is much online content for Bolton le Moors Parish St Peter's Parish and its several attached district churches, chapelries, and ecclesiastical parishes--including, baptisms, marriages and some burials. These records include vital content from the following chapels and the (St Peter's) parish:

[Note: FS = FamilySearch.org; LOPC = Lancashire Online Parish Clerk; AC = Ancestry.Co.uk]

Available Original Records 

The Manchester Archives and Local Studies at the Manchester Central Library has the following large collection of Bolton le Moors (including Great Bolton, Little Bolton and its satellite chapelries, district churches and smaller ecclesiastical) parish registers.

Their collections include the ancient parish of Bolton- St Peter (Bolton Parish Church) as follows:

Banns-1754-1785- MFPR 1853 Banns-1785-1814- MFPR 1939 Banns-1814-1835- MFPR 1940 Banns-1835-1850- MFPR 1941 Banns-1850-1909- MFPR 1942 Banns-1909-1919- MFPR 1943 Baptisms-1590-1632- MFPR 2154 Baptisms-1632-1656- MFPR 1018 or MFPR 2154 Baptisms-1656-1712- MFPR 1018 or MFPR 2155 Baptisms-1712-1754- MFPR 1018 or MFPR 2155 Baptisms-1754-1785- MFPR 1018 or MFPR 2156 Baptisms-1786-1802- MFPR 1018 or MFPR 2157 Baptisms-1802-1812- MFPR 1018 or MFPR 2156 Baptisms-1812-1817- MFPR 1018 Baptisms-1817-1827- MFPR 1019 Baptisms Private-1825-1835- MFPR 1943 Baptisms-1827-1837- MFPR 1020 Baptisms-1836-1842- MFPR 1836 Baptisms-1842-1849- MFPR 1837 Baptisms-1849-1857- MFPR 1838 Baptisms-1857-1869- MFPR 1839 Baptisms-1869-1882- MFPR 1840 Baptisms-1882-1910- MFPR 1841 Baptisms-1910-1945- MFPR 1842 Baptisms Transcript-1573-1660- 929.3272 B3 Burials-1587-1630- MFPR 2154 Burials-1632-1661- MFPR 2155 Burials-1661-1706- MFPR 1025 or MFPR 2155 Burials-1706-1712- MFPR 1025 Burials-1712-1764- MFPR 1025 or MFPR 2156 Burials-1764-1785- MFPR 1025 or MFPR 2157 Burials-1785-1802- MFPR 1025 Burials-1802-1812- MFPR 1025 or MFPR 2156 Burials-1813-1820- MFPR 1025 or MFPR 1842 Burials-1820-1826- MFPR 1025 Burials-1826-1838- MFPR 1026 Burials-1833-1841- MFPR 1854 Burials-1841-1850- MFPR 1855 Burials-1850-1896- MFPR 1856 Burials Transcript-1573-1660- 929.3272 B3 Marriage Index-1813-1837- Rossendale Fiche B15 Marriage Index-1838-1850- Bolton FHS Fiche Marriages-1588-1631- MFPR 2154 Marriages-1632-1651- MFPR 2155 Marriages-1651-1657- Archives L243 Marriages-1657-1661- MFPR 2155 Marriages-1661-1712- MFPR 1021 or MFPR 2155 Marriages-1712-1754- MFPR 1021 or MFPR 2156 Marriages-1754-1792- MFPR 1021 Marriages-1792-1816- MFPR 1022 Marriages-1816-1828- MFPR 1023 Marriages-1828-1837- MFPR 1024 Marriages-1837-1841- MFPR 1843 Marriages-1841-1844- MFPR 1844 Marriages-1844-1847- MFPR 1845 Marriages-1847-1850- MFPR 1846 Marriages-1851-1853- MFPR 1847 Marriages-1853-1857- MFPR 1848 Marriages-1857-1867- MFPR 1849 Marriages-1867-1878- MFPR 1850 Marriages-1878-1893- MFPR 1851 Marriages-1893-1938- MFPR 1852 Marriages-1938-1974- MFPR 1853 Marriages-1974-1990- Archives L243 Marriages Transcript-1573-1660- 929.3272 B3

The Manchester Archives and Studies centre church registers collection also includes the originals of most of the above listed (see chart above of online and/or the "Comprehensive list of chapelries in Bolton le Moors St Peters Parish").

Contact Information:

The Manchester Room and Greater Manchester County Record Office Email: archiveslocalstudies@manchester.gov.uk

The Manchester Room@City Library (Local Studies)

Parish registers for St. Peter's, Bolton-le-Moors, 1587-1838. Microfilm of original records filmed and formerly held at the Manchester Central Library, Manchester. Manchester Archives Central Library call nos.: L243/1/1/1-3; L243/1/2/1-3. Searches in St Peter's parish registers ought always to also include searches made in its (St Peter's) chapelries (about 25 of them--depending on the time period- see above)--in order to be thorough in researching in this area.

Records at The Family History Library 

Here som of the records of Bolton le Moors located at the family History Lbirary:

Bishop's transcripts for Bolton-le-Moors, 1573-1872 Microreproduction of original manuscripts housed at the Lancashire Record Office, Preston. The name of the parish church is St. Peter's. The town of Bolton is in the parish of Bolton-le-Moors Many records are in poor condition due to water damage.

Lancashire Record Office: DRM/2/17-32

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

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.

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

Web sites
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53036 British History Online Bolton-le-Moors