Ashton under Lyne St Peter, Lancashire Genealogy

Guide to Ashton under Lyne St Peter, Lancashire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: chapelry register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Chapelry History
Ashton-under-Lyne (St Peter) was a chapelry from 1799 within the parish of Ashton under Lyne St Michael, Lancashire. It is located at the western extremity of the town. St. Peter's Church is a rich specimen of the decorated style, erected in 1821. There are places of worship, and, generally, schools also, belonging to the Independents, Wesleyans, Independent Methodists, Primitive Methodists, Methodists of the New Connexion, Baptists, Stephenites, Latter-day Saints, and Israelites.

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 

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

Part of the Family History Library's microfilm for this parish is digitized online under England, Lancashire – Cheshire – Yorkshire Parish Registers, 1603-1992 where it can be viewed for free.

Ashton-under-Lyne- St Peter Banns-1887-1901- Archives L74 Baptisms-1824-1924- MFPR 1151 Baptisms-1924-1969- MFPR 1152 Baptisms Transcript-1824-1837- 929.342735 As(882) Burials-1825-1853- MFPR 1160 Burials-1853-1860- MFPR 1161 Burials-1860-1865- MFPR 1161 or MFPR 1994 Burials-1865-1966- MFPR 1159 or MFPR 1994 Burials Transcript-1825-1837- 929.342735 As(882) Marriages-1840-1875- MFPR 1153 Marriages-1875-1891- MFPR 1154 Marriages-1891-1908- MFPR 1155 Marriages-1908-1928- MFPR 1156 Marriages-1928-1941- MFPR 1157 Marriages-1942-1973- MFPR 1158

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 Church, Ashton-under-Lyne, 1824-1966 Microfilm of original records formerly held at the Manchester Archives, Central Library in Manchester, England.Manchester Archives Central Library call no.: L 74/1/1/1-7; L 74/1/2/1-13; L 74/1/3/1-10; L 74/1/4/1.

Graveyard inscriptions for St. Peter's Church, Ashton-under-Lyne, 1799-1962 Microfilm of original records at the Manchester Archives, Central Library in Manchester, England.Manchester Archives Central Library call no.: L 74/1/9/1-2.

Non-Conformist Records

 * 1647-1996 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)
 * 1600s-1910 Cheshire Non-Conformist & Roman Catholic Registers (Marriages) 17th Century-1910 at FindMyPast ($); index and images (dates may vary by parish)

Poor Law Unions
Ashton under Lyne, 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

Websites
Ashton under Lyne on GENUKI