Rochdale St Chad, Lancashire Genealogy

Church Records
Online Records

St Chad Rochdale parish has been a very populated township possessing about 20 or more chapelries, and district churches each with church registers. There are online transcriptions for St Chad Rochdale Parish, and for the baptism, marriage and burial registers of many of its attached chapelries lying within its boundary. Displayed below are those chapelries attached to St Chad ancient parish) along with the ranges of years for which there are available online data at the web sites indicated below:

Those registers of St Chad's and its other chapelries which have no known online content, include the following ones:

- St Chad's Rochdale - bapts 1836-1900 (the ancient/mother parish) - St Mary Rochdale - 1742 (bapts &amp; marriages; burials are available through FamilySearch) - St Martin Rochdale - 1820 - Littleborough - 1741 - nil - Lydgate St Marys - from 1788 - Saddleworth - from 1612 - Smallbridge - from 1834 - Spotland St Clement - from 1835 - Todmorden - from 1625 - Todmorden Christ Church - from 1832 - Walsden - from 1845 - Wardleworth St James - from 1821 - Wardle with Wuerdle St John (see Smallbridge) - Wardleworth St Mary the Baum – from 1747

While the above chapelries and St Chad's registers do not currently have online indexed content, FamilySearch does have microfilm copies of the original Bishop's transcripts and/or parish registers for most of Rochdale's chapels of ease and churches. Most of the original church or chapel registers are found at the Manchester Central Library Local Studies Unit, Lancashire, England, or, at the local chapel.

Census
The Family History Library has an 1851 census surname index of Lancashire - Rochdale, Butterworth &amp; Castleton subdistricts: Public Redords Office ref HO 107/2244. FHL British Book 942.72 X22c v 21 and on FHL British Microfiche 6414326

Poor Law Unions
Rochdale Parish was the head of a poor law union.

Probate records with indexes are available for Hawkshead Parish
Go to the Lancashire Probate Records and follow the step by step instructions to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction and search the records.

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
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