Cheetham St Luke, Lancashire Genealogy

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Chapelry History
Cheetham Hill St Luke, was a township and chapelry as of 1839 laying within the civil parish of Manchester.

The foundation stone was lain Wednesday June 29th 1836 and the church was consecrated on Sunday 6th October 1839. The cost of £23,000 to build the church was raised locally and the site of the church was given by the Earl of Derby. It was regarded as one of the finest examples of church architecture in Manchester. It had 1,250 seats, 500 of which were free from pew rents. The organ was consecrated by the fingers of Mendelssohn, who played it in 1847, the year of his death when he visited Manchester to give a performance of his 'Elijah'. St. Luke's attracted a fashionable congregation, but towards the end of the 19th century its decline commenced as people moved further from the city centre. In 1877 St. Luke's was the wealthiest of Manchester's churches. Today, all that remains of the church is a crumbling tower, the remainder having been demolished during the late 1980's.

Civil Registration
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Church records
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Parish registers for St. Luke's Church, Cheetham, 1839-1981 Microfilm copy of originals formerly held at the Manchester Central Library, Manchester, England. Cheetham is a chapelry in Manchester parish. Manchester Central Library call nos.: M339/1/1/1-4, M339/1/2/1-6, M339/1/3/1-8.

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

Poor Law Unions
Manchester 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.

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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
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Web sites
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