Rusholme, Lancashire Genealogy

England Lancashire  Lancashire Parishes

Chapelry History
RUSHOLME, a township in Manchester parish, Lancashire 2½ miles south by east of Manchester. The limits include a considerable suburb of Manchester, and the chapelry of Birch. A Wesleyan chapel was built here in 1863.

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

Rusholme Township by 1885 had four district chapelries assigned to it--including St Agnes (1884), Holy Trinity (1849), St Chrysostom (1876), and St James (by 1756).

Online transcriptions exist for some of these chapelries which comprised this large suburb of Manchester Parish and its 150-plus such chapelries found within its ancient parish boundary. The online data includes content for these four chapelries' baptisms, marriages and burial registers. Displayed below are the links to these chapelries available online data located at the websites indicated; note the ranges of years:

See also Newton (Heath) Chapelry as well.

To view a full list of Manchester's (150-plus) chapelries and district churches comprising the ancient parish of Manchester, and their respective online transcriptions, be sure to see the MANCHESTER (CATHEDRAL) OUR LADY, ST GEORGE &amp; ST DENYS page.

Original Records

Original parish (chapelry) registers of baptisms, marriages and burials for Newton's chapelries are housed at the Manchester Central Studies Library, Manchester.

Non Conformist Records

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at Findmypast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)
 * 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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain