Ashton under Lyne St Michael, Lancashire Genealogy

Guide to Ashton under Lyne St Michael, Lancashire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records. For a comprehensive listing of Ashton under Lyne St Michael Parish's links to online church record details, use the chart below under "Church Records".

Parish History
ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE(St. Michael), is a market town, parish, parliamentary borough, and the head of a union, in the hundred of Salford, S. division of the county of Lancaster, 6 miles (E.)from Manchester, 58 (S. E.)from Lancaster, and 197 (N. W. by N.) from London, comprising the parochial divisions of Ashton-town, Audenshaw, Hartshead, and Knott-Lanes. There are places of worship, and, generally, schools also, belonging to the Independents, Wesleyans, Independent Methodists, Primitive Methodists, Methodists of the New Connexion, Baptists, Stephenites, Latter-day Saints, and Israelites.

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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. Most popular sites are FreeBMD, LancashireBMD, and the GRO(register to use; it is free).

Church Records
The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor. Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

Church of England
Chapelry is a church or churches built in a large ecclesiastical parish to help the members attend worship services closer to their homes.

Chapelries of Ashton under Lyne St Michael
Online Parish Records Table

Due to the increasing access of online records: Hover over the collection's title for more information Other Websites These databases have incomplete parish coverage.
 * Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
 * Dates in the following table are approximate
 * Joiner Marriage Index - Lancashire ($)
 * The Genealogist Parish Registers - Lancashire ($)
 * UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records
 * OnLine Parish Clerks - Lancashire - OnLine Parish Clerks project for Lancashire

Non-Conformist Churches (All other Religions)

 * 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)

Census records
Morling, Loreley A. The White Family of Leitrim to Lidcombe via Lancashire. History and family tree of Henry White and 1. Anne Robinson, 2, Mary Rutherford, with the following surnames. Nunnerley, Baldwin, Slenburg, Lover, Dyson, Kegg and Sargent. A branch went out to Lidcombe, N.S.W. and Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Article in The Lancashire Family History and Heraldry Sockiety Magazine vol. 13, no. 2, pages 16-25, FS Library Ref 942.72 B2r

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.

Taxation

 * 1541 FamilySearch Digital Library Subsidy of Assheton and Moston (p. 144)
 * 1622 FamilySearch Digital Library Subsidy of Asheton (p. 155)

Maps and Gazetteers
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Websites

 * Tameside One-Place Study
 * Ashton under Lyne on GENUKI