Hulme St Mark, Lancashire Genealogy

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

Chapelry History
HULME (St. Mark), a chapelry, in the civil parish boundaries of Manchester, union of Chorlton, hundred of Salford, S. division of Lancashire. St Mark's was built in the year 1846 and created from Hulme St George. Consecrated in 1848 it became redundant in 1949. It was subsequently redeveloped and converted into luxury apartments. There are places of worship for Independents, Wesleyans, and other denominations of dissenters; and numerous daily, Sunday, and infant schools. Among the public institutions are, the workhouse for the Chorlton union.

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.

Church Records
Online Records
 * 1538 - 1910 at FamilySearch — index
 * 1603 - 1910 at FamilySearch — index and images

Online transcriptions for Hulme St Mark Chapelry exist. The links to online transcriptions include also most of its additional 10 sister chapelries. These chapelries comprise the large township of Hulme, which partly comprises one of the larger chapelry districts within the boundary of the ancient parish of Manchester (Cathedral) Our Lady, St George, and St Denys--to which all were attached.

Links to online baptisms, marriages and burials registers are displayed below and located at the web sites indicated; note the ranges of years:

To view a full list of all chapelries and district churches in the ancient parish of Manchester and their respective links to online transcriptions of their baptisms, marriages and burials, be sure to visit the MANCHESTER (CATHEDRAL) OUR LADY, ST GEORGE &amp; ST DENYS page.

Original Records

Original parish (chapelry) registers for St. Mark's, Hulme, 1847-1941 exist and are housed at the Manchester Central Library, Manchester, England.

Hulme St Mark's was one of ten Hulme Township chapelries--but all within Manchester ancient parish's boundary. Manchester Central Library call nos. are: M383/1/1/1-10, M383/1/2/1-9, M383/1/3/1-8.

FamilySearch has also microfilmed all ten of these original parish (chapelry) registers (Christ Church was a cemetery and crematoria only) and most of the data has been transcribed and is now searchable online at its website. To see the original chapelry registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, see the FamilySearch Catalog online.

Non Conformist Records

 * 1647-1996 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)

Poor Law Unions
Chorlton Poor Law Union,Lancashire

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