Sharples St Thomas

England   Lancashire  Lancashire Parishes

Chapelry History
Sharples St Thomas' Chapelry was built by the year 1847 and which was created and stood within the large ancient of parish boundary of Bolton le Moors St Peter, Lancashire.

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

Lancashire Online Parish Clerks
An extremely useful resource for research in Lancashire Parishes http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/

Online Records
 Church of England 

Sharples St Thomas Chapelry in Bolton Le Moors St Peter Ancient Parish registers of christenings and burials, are not yet available online, but those of the ancient parish of Bolton Le Moors St. Peter to which it is attached, have been mostly transcribed and are displayed online at the following web sites and ranges of years:

For a full list of all those chapels immediately surrounding Sharples St Thomas' Chapelry and comprising the whole ancient parish of Bolton Le Moors St Peter to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the BOLTON LE MOORS ST PETER PARISH page.

These chapelry registers are deposited at the Manchester Room and Greater Manchester County Record Office. Email: archiveslocalstudies@manchester.gov.uk following its re-opening after refurbishment.

The Manchester Room@City Library (Local Studies)

Poor Law Unions
Bolton, 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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