Newton All Saints, Lancashire Genealogy

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Chapel History
NEWTON, a parochial chapelry, in the parishand union of Manchester, hundred of Salford, S. division of Lancashire; comprising the townships of Bradford, Droylsden, Failsworth, Newton, and Moston, 2 miles northeast by east from Manchester. The former chapel, dedicated to All Saints, and built prior to 1650, fell down on the 2nd of May, 1808 and rebuilt by 1848. The townships of Droylsden and Failsworth have lately been constituted ecclesiastical parishes, under the provisions of the act 6th and 7th Victoria, cap. 37; St Marys Droylsden was consecrated and opened for worship in August, 1846, and Failsworth St John was erected by. The chapels of St Mary Moston and Bradford Christ Church opened respectively in 1867 and.

There are several places of worship for dissenters; and numerous schools.

Records for All Saints Parish Church date back to 1655. There is an ancient chapelry mentioned as far back as 1573 when Bishop Bridgman made an order in respect of maintenance for a curate.

The current church was erected in 1814 under an Act of Parliament. At this time the district of the chapelry changed and included Newton (Newton Heath), Failsworth, Droylsden, Bradford and part of Moston. This continued until the passing of the Rectorial Act when these places were separated and became parishes.

Newton All Saints was created as a chapelry in 1839 from, and lying within Manchester Our Lady, St George and St Denys, Lancashire Ancient Parish.

Other places in the chapelry include: Kirkmanshulme and Culcheth. The modern parish was created in 1997 when united with St. Wilfred and St. Anne's to form the parish of Newton Heath.

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

Newton All Saints, plus the chapelries of Newton Heath St Ann, Newton Heath St Augustine, Newton Heath St Mark, Old Newton Heath St Mark, Online transcriptions for Chorlton cum Hardy St Clement Chapelry exist, as well as those for the ancient parish of Manchester Our Lady, St George, and St Denys--to which it was attached. Links to online baptisms, marriages and burials registers are displayed below and located at the web sites indicated; note the ranges of years:

To view a full list of the (over 150) chapelries and district churches in the ancient parish of Manchester and their respective links to online transcriptions of their baptisms, marriages and burials, be sure to visit the MANCHESTER (CATHEDRAL) OUR LADY, ST GEORGE &amp; ST DENYS page.

Original Records

The original parish (chapelry) registers for All Saints' Church, Newton, 1655-1950 are housed at the Manchester Archives Central Library in Manchester, England and formerly held at manchester Central Lirbrary (see Manchester Archives Central Library call nos.: M362/1/1/1-3, M362/2/1-8, M362/3/1-5, M362/1/4/1-13, M362/1/5/1-3).

FamilySearch has microfilmed these registers and transcribed data from these microfilm copies of the original registers are available mostly online the website Newton's more modern-built chapel registers are not yet all online. Newton (Heath), is a chapelry in Manchester parish. FamilySearch's microfilmed copies and their respective microfilm numbers for Newton All Saints are listed below:

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.

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