Salford St Philip, Lancashire Genealogy

England Lancashire  Lancashire Parishes



Parish History
St Philip, Salford was created as a district church in the year 1825. It was one of approximately seven such district churches built to handle the burdgeoning growth of population in that township. It lay within the civil parish boundaries of Manchester St Mary and St Denys (The Cathedral Church). St. Philip's district-parish church, in Salford, a handsome edifice in the Grecian style, with a tower and semicircular portico of the Ionic order, was also erected in 1825.

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

Church records
Online Records 

Online transcriptions exist for Salford St Philip's Chapelry and its eleven sister chapelries (as of 1885)--all of which comprise this very large suburb in Manchester ancient parish (the Cathedral of Our Lady, St George and St Denys). Displayed below are the links to the available ranges of years for which online data (transcriptions) are located:

To view a full list of all (150-plus) chapelries, ecclesiastical parishes and district chapels in the ancient parish of Manchester, and their links to online data for their baptism, marriage and burial registers, visit the MANCHESTER (CATHEDRAL), OUR LADY, ST GEORGE &amp; ST DENYS page.

Original Records Original parish (chapel) registers are held at the Manchester Record Office, William Brown Street, Manchester L3 8EW, United Kingdom.

These chapelry registers of baptism, marriages and burials for Salford- St Philip are available on microfilm at their archives, as follows:

Banns-1869-1957- MFPR 2177 Baptisms-1826-1848- MFPR 143 or MFPR 2175 Baptisms-1848-1914- MFPR 2175 Burials-1834-1888- MFPR 143 or MFPR 2177 Marriages-1838-1866- MFPR 389 Marriages-1866-1911- MFPR 389 or MFPR 2176 Marriages-1911-1935- MFPR 390 or MFPR 2177 Marriages-1935-1959- MFPR 390

To contact the Manchester Room and Greater Manchester County Record Office: Email:


 * archiveslocalstudies@manchester.gov.uk
 * The Manchester Room@City Library

Parish registers for St. Phillip's Church, Salford, 1826-1957 Microfilm of original records also held at the Manchester Public Library (1960), and formerly held at the Manchester Archives Central Library in Manchester, England. The parish was also known as the district parish of St. Philip, Salford, Manchester.

FamilySearch has also microfilmed the original parish (chapel) registers for St Philip's Salford and these are available on the following films:

Bishop's transcripts for Salford area churches, 1635-1889 Microreproduction of original manuscripts housed at the Lancashire Record Office, Preston. Includes the following chapelries from the town of Salford, (parish of Manchester): Trinity, Christchurch, St. Matthias, St. Phillip and St. Stephen. The title board for item 1 has incorrect dates. It should read, 1635- 1777. Lancashire Record Office: DRM/2/217-219

Poor law Unions
Salford, 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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