Bradford St Philip, Lancashire Genealogy

Chapelry History
Bradford St Philip Chapelry in Manchester was created and in operation by the year 1850 taken from Manchester All Souls, Lancashire Ecclesiastical Parish.

An Image of the church can be viewed online at www.images.manchester.gov.uk/libraries Manchester Image Collection

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

St Philip Bradford Chapelry, in Manchester has online transcriptions for its baptisms, marriages and burials, as well as for Christ Church Bradford and for the ancient or mother parish of Manchester Cathedral of Our Lady, St George and St Denys. These online transcriptions are all available and located at the web sites indicated below; note the ranges of years:

To view a full list of all (over 150) of Manchester City's numerous chapelries and district churches and the links to online data for each, see the ancient parish (Cathedral) of MANCHESTER OUR LADY, ST GEORGE, &amp; ST DENYS page.

Original Records Parish registers for St. Philip's Church, Bradford Road, Manchester, have been microfilmed from 1850 on. Microfilmed copy of original registers were filmed at the Manchester Archives Central Library in Manchester, England and formerly held at Manchester Central Library Manchester Archives Central Library call nos.: M299/3/1/1-9, M299/3/2/1-12.

FamilySearch call no.'s include the following:

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.

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
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