Weaste St Luke, Lancashire Genealogy

History
Weaste St Luke Liverpool Street Weaste was created in 1865 from Eccles, Lancashire Ancient Parish

The name is from Old French waste meaning "common land, waste".

The church is a grade II listed building designed by George Gilbert Scott. Emily Pankhurst, the women's suffragette leader, was married in St Lukes in 1879.

19th century cotton firm Ermen &amp; Engels — part-owned by the father of Friedrich Engels — established their second factory in 1837 near Weaste Station, on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway line. A young Friedrich worked for the factory in their offices based around the Royal Exchange, Manchester.

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 Free_BMD.

Online index of Lancashire Births, Marriages and Deaths Lancashire_BMD

Church records
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Census records
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Poor Law Unions
Salford,_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

Web sites
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