Lydgate, Lancashire Genealogy

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Chapelry History
Lydgate St Anne was created as a chapel of ease by the year 1788 from, and lying within the boundaries of Rochdale St Chad, Lancashire Ancient parish and was part of the Ashton under Lyne rural deanery of the Diocese of Manchester one of the Saddleworth parishes which form part of modern Metropolitan Borough of Oldham Lancashire.

"LYDGATE, an ecclesiastical district [created in the year 1788], in the parochial chapelry of Saddleworth,parish of Rochdale [as of 1848], Upper division of the wapentake of Agbrigg, W. riding of York, 3 miles north by northeast of Oldham, and 9 miles northeast from Manchester. The chapel, erected by subscription in 1788, was dedicated to St. Ann."

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.

Saddleworth

Online Records
 Church of England 

Ldygate chapelry's registers of christenings, marriages and burials, along with those of the ancient parish of Rochdale St Chad 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 surrounding Lydgate and comprising the whole ancient parish of Rochdale St Chad to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the ROCHDALE ST CHAD PARISH page.

Parish registers for St. Anne's Church, Lydgate, 1788-1952 Microfilm of original records previosly held at the Manchester Archives Central Library in Manchester, England.Lydgate is a village and a chapelry in Saddleworth township, Rochdale St Chad, Lancashire parish. Manchester Archives Central Library call nos.: 011/1/3/1, 011/1/4/1-2, 011/1/5/1-2.

Bishop's transcripts for Lydgate, 1788-1846 Microreproduction of original manuscripts housed at the Lancashire Record Office, Preston. Bishop's transcripts of the chapelry of Lydgate (St. Ann), Saddleworth township in the parish of Rochdale St Chad, Lancashire. Rochdale was mainly in the county of Lancashire.

Poor Law Unions
Rochdale 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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