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Guide to Ashton under Lyne St Michael, Lancashire family history and genealogy. Parish registers (baptism, christening, marriage, and burial records), civil registration (birth, marriage, and death records), census records, history, wills, cemetery, online transcriptions and indexes, an interactive map and websites.

See a List of Chapelries in Ashton under Lyne St Michael Parish.

Parish History

ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE St Michael, a market town, [and an] parish, parliamentary borough, and the head of a union, in the hundred of Salford, S. division of the county of Lancaster, 6 miles east from Manchester. It comprises the parochial (chapelry) divisions of Ashton-town, Audenshaw, Hartshead, and Knott-Lanes. Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England.^[1] 

The church was at one time a chapel of ease to the Parish church of Manchester. A chapel called St. Peter Church, Ashton-Under-Lyne was erected at the town's west-end in 1821. In 1840, a new chapel with an  ecclesiastical district was annexed to St Peter's. Then in 1846 a district was created and the district chapel of Christ Church was built by that year, situated in Charlestown. Chapels were built, belonging to the Congregational/Independents, Wesleyan Methodists, Independent Methodists, Primitive Methodists, Methodists of the New Connection, Baptists, Stephenites, Latter-day Saints, and Israelites.

Resources

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 

Ashton under Lyne St. Michael parish registers and those registers of all of its smaller chapelries lying within its boundaries have been mostly transcribed and are displayed online at the following web sites and ranges of years:

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Original Records

The Lancashire Record Office at Bow Lane, Preston PR2 1RE, holds the original parish registers in its vast collections. Contact their website for contact information.

The Family History Library has microfilmed the parish registers and Bishop's transcripts of _____ parish for the years ____-____. These films are available for ordering/circulating and researching at any one of its satellite FamilySearch Centers worldwide.

Census records

Census records from 1841-1891 are available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library. The first film number is 306917. To view these census images online, they are available through the following websites for a fee ($) or free:

• FamilySearch has some of the British Censuses available.
• FindMyPast ($) has all available census records including images, and is free at Family History Centers and the Family History Library and some public and academic libraries.
• Ancestry.co.uk ($) has now all available census records but free at Family History Centers and the Family History Library and at numerous public and academic libraries. The library versions are known as AncestryInstitution.com.
• The Genealogist.co.uk ($) has all available censuses and is free at Family History Centers and the Family History Library and various other libraries.
• FreeCen is a UK census searches. It is not complete and individuals are always asked to consider helping out with transcriptions.
  

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

Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.

• England Jurisdictions 1851
• Vision of Britain

Web sites

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References

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