Farnworth and Kearsley, Lancashire Genealogy

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



See A Comprehensive List of Chapelries in Deane Parish

Parish History
FARNWORTH (St. John), a separate parish created in 1828, from Deane Parish in the union of Bolton, hundred of Salford, S. division of Lancashire, 2¼ miles south by southeast of Bolton; comprising the townships of Farnworth and Kearsley. In the reign of Queen Mary, Farnworth township, lately a part of the parish of Deane, was a portion of the township of Barton-upon-Irwell, in Eccles parish, though distant from it about five miles. In 1663 it was still called "the hamlet of Farnworth within the township of Barton;" The township of Farnworth and the adjoining township of Kearsley were separated 23rd of July 1828, from the parish of Deane, and constituted a distinct parish, under the act 58th George III. cap. 45. The church commenced operating in 1826. Be sure to view the A Comprehensive List of Chapelries in Deane Parish for important information about the area chapels attached to Deane Parish.

FARNWORTH, a town, a township, a chapelry, and a sub-district in Deane parish and Bolton district, Lancashire. The town stands near the Bolton and Manchester railway, 3 miles SE of Bolton; has a post office‡ under Bolton, and a railway station with telegraph.

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

Lancashire Online Parish Clerks
An extremely useful resource for research in Lancashire Parishes http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/

Includes transcripts for this parish.

Online Records
 Church of England 

Farnworth and Kearsley chapelry's registers of christenings, marriages and burials, along with those of the ancient parish of Deane 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 Farnworth and Kearsley and comprising the whole ancient parish of Deane to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the DEANE PARISH page.

Farnworth with Kearsley- St John

Transcripts are available on-line at Lancashire Online P Parish Clerks.

Baptisms-1826-1840- MFPR 193 Baptisms-1841-1873- MFPR 1352 Baptisms-1873-1890- MFPR 1353 Baptisms-1890-1900- MFPR 1354 Burials-1826-1852- MFPR 193 Burials-1852-1903- MFPR 1358 Marriages-1830-1849- MFPR 193 Marriages-1849-1867- MFPR 1355 Marriages-1867-1878- MFPR 1356 Marriages-1878-1901- MFPR 1357

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. John's, Farnworth (near Bolton), 1826-1903 Microfilm of original records at the Manchester Public Library, and at the Manchester Archives formerly at Central Library in Manchester, England. The chapelry of Farnworth, which includes the township of Kersley, is in the parish of Deane. The church is also known as St. John's. Manchester Archives Central Library call nos.: L202/1/1/1-9, L202/1/2/1-9, L202/1/3/1-7.

Poor Law Unions
Bolton, 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.

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