Hey, Lancashire Genealogy

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

Chapelry History
LEES, or otherwise known as HEY, a hamlet, in the parish and union of Ashton-under-Lyne, and partly in Rochdale Parish, in the hundred of Salford, S. division of the county of Lancaster, 8½ miles northeast by east of Manchester, and 2 east by southeast from Oldham. A part of the village, which to some extent, is in Oldham chapelry, and another portion in Saddleworth Chapelry (in Rochdale Parish, which see),Yorkshire. Lees chapel, dedicated to St John, was erected in 1742. An ecclesiastical parish, named St Thomas, Leesfield, was formed in 1846, out of the parish of Ashton and the parochial chapelry of Oldham. There are several places of worship for dissenters.

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 Records

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

 Church of England 

Hey chapelry's registers of christenings, marriages and burials, along with those of the ancient parish of Ashton under Lyne 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 Hey and comprising the whole ancient parish of Ashton under Lyne to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the ASHTON UNDER LYNE ST MICHAEL PARISH page.

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