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Here is a Comprehensive List of Chapelries in Bolton le Moors Parish

Parish History

Bolton le Moors St Peter is an Ancient Parish and a market town in the county of Lancashire.

Other places in the parish include: Entwistle, Great Bolton, Eastern, Gale Paper Works, Great Bolton, Western, Haulgh, High Houses, Longworth, Lostock, Old Hams (Oldhams), Picadilly, Quarlton, Rivington, Sharples, Sharples Higher End, Sharples Lower End, Sweet Loves, West, Anglezark, Anglezarke, Bank Top, Belmont, Bolton, Breightmet, Darcy Lever, East, Edgeworth, Entwisle, and Folds, Little Lever, Tonge with Haulgh, Turton and more.

"BOLTON-LE-MOORS St Peter, a parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of Salford, S. division of the county of Lancaster; comprising the borough and market-town of Bolton, the chapelries of Blackrod, Bradshaw, Harwood, Little Lever, Rivington, and Turton, in addition to others, It also included the townships of Anglezarke, Breightmet, Edgeworth, Entwistle, Darcy Lever, Longworth, Lostock, Quarlton, Sharples, and Tonge with Haulgh. Little  Bolton was about 43 miles south by southeast of the City of  Lancaster. For research purposes, here is a Comprehensive List of Chapelries in Bolton le Moors St Peters Parish. 

There was a Scottish chapel built in 1846 as well as chapels for worship for Baptists, Independents, Unitarians, the Society of Friends, Swedenborgians, Methodists, and Roman Catholics. A French Chapel existed at one time due to the French refugees settling in this town. See Lewis' Topographical Dictionary of England for a helpful 19th Century historical perspective.^[1]

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.

At a more local level, a countywide online index for Lancashire Births, Marriages and Deaths may be found at Lancashire BMD--a "must see" web site for obtaining index information and beyond (i.e. the name of the parish of most marriages are provided) for the civil registration time period.

Church records

Online Records 

There is much online content for Bolton le Moors Parish St Peter's Parish and its approximately 35  attached district churches, chapelries, and ecclesiastical parishes--including, baptisms, marriages (and some banns of marriages) and some burials. These records include vital content from the following web sites which include data content from chapel registers as well as from the (St Peter's) parish church itself:

Note that there were only two churches allowed to marry couples within the boundary of this large parish. These were--

• Bolton le Moors St Peter the ancient parish - 1573
• Rivington Chapelry - 1678

Available Original Records

The Manchester Archives and Local Studies at the Manchester Central Library has most of local collections of Bolton le Moors (including Great Bolton, Little Bolton and its satellite chapelries, district churches and smaller ecclesiastical) parish registers.

Its collections include the ancient parish of Bolton St Peter (Bolton Parish Church) as well as most of its attached chapel of ease, district churches and ecclesiastical parishes which fell within its jurisdictional boundary as follows:

 
Here are the film numbers to St Peter's Parish registers:

Banns-1754-1785- MFPR 1853
Banns-1785-1814- MFPR 1939
Banns-1814-1835- MFPR 1940
Banns-1835-1850- MFPR 1941
Banns-1850-1909- MFPR 1942
Banns-1909-1919- MFPR 1943
Baptisms-1590-1632- MFPR 2154
Baptisms-1632-1656- MFPR 1018 or MFPR 2154
Baptisms-1656-1712- MFPR 1018 or MFPR 2155
Baptisms-1712-1754- MFPR 1018 or MFPR 2155
Baptisms-1754-1785- MFPR 1018 or MFPR 2156
Baptisms-1786-1802- MFPR 1018 or MFPR 2157
Baptisms-1802-1812- MFPR 1018 or MFPR 2156
Baptisms-1812-1817- MFPR 1018
Baptisms-1817-1827- MFPR 1019
Baptisms Private-1825-1835- MFPR 1943
Baptisms-1827-1837- MFPR 1020
Baptisms-1836-1842- MFPR 1836
Baptisms-1842-1849- MFPR 1837
Baptisms-1849-1857- MFPR 1838
Baptisms-1857-1869- MFPR 1839
Baptisms-1869-1882- MFPR 1840
Baptisms-1882-1910- MFPR 1841
Baptisms-1910-1945- MFPR 1842
Baptisms Transcript-1573-1660- 929.3272 B3
Burials-1587-1630- MFPR 2154
Burials-1632-1661- MFPR 2155
Burials-1661-1706- MFPR 1025 or MFPR 2155
Burials-1706-1712- MFPR 1025
Burials-1712-1764- MFPR 1025 or MFPR 2156
Burials-1764-1785- MFPR 1025 or MFPR 2157
Burials-1785-1802- MFPR 1025
Burials-1802-1812- MFPR 1025 or MFPR 2156
Burials-1813-1820- MFPR 1025 or MFPR 1842
Burials-1820-1826- MFPR 1025
Burials-1826-1838- MFPR 1026
Burials-1833-1841- MFPR 1854
Burials-1841-1850- MFPR 1855
Burials-1850-1896- MFPR 1856
Burials Transcript-1573-1660- 929.3272 B3
Marriage Index-1813-1837- Rossendale Fiche B15
Marriage Index-1838-1850- Bolton FHS Fiche
Marriages-1588-1631- MFPR 2154
Marriages-1632-1651- MFPR 2155
Marriages-1651-1657- Archives L243
Marriages-1657-1661- MFPR 2155
Marriages-1661-1712- MFPR 1021 or MFPR 2155
Marriages-1712-1754- MFPR 1021 or MFPR 2156
Marriages-1754-1792- MFPR 1021
Marriages-1792-1816- MFPR 1022
Marriages-1816-1828- MFPR 1023
Marriages-1828-1837- MFPR 1024
Marriages-1837-1841- MFPR 1843
Marriages-1841-1844- MFPR 1844
Marriages-1844-1847- MFPR 1845
Marriages-1847-1850- MFPR 1846
Marriages-1851-1853- MFPR 1847
Marriages-1853-1857- MFPR 1848
Marriages-1857-1867- MFPR 1849
Marriages-1867-1878- MFPR 1850
Marriages-1878-1893- MFPR 1851
Marriages-1893-1938- MFPR 1852
Marriages-1938-1974- MFPR 1853
Marriages-1974-1990- Archives L243
Marriages Transcript-1573-1660- 929.3272 B3

Archives and Studies centre Contact Information:

The Manchester Room and Greater Manchester County Record Office
Email: archiveslocalstudies@manchester.gov.uk

The Manchester Room@City Library (Local Studies)

Parish registers for St. Peter's, Bolton-le-Moors, 1587-1838. Microfilm of original records filmed and formerly held at the Manchester Central Library, Manchester. Manchester Archives Central Library call nos.: L243/1/1/1-3; L243/1/2/1-3.
Searches in St Peter's parish registers ought always to also include searches made in its (St Peter's) chapelries (about 25 of them--depending on the time period- see above)--in order to be thorough in researching in this area.

Records at The Family History Library 

Here just a few of the records of Bolton le Moors St Peter as well a few of its smaller and attached chapelries available at the family History Lbirary:

Bishop's transcripts for Bolton-le-Moors, 1573-1872  Microreproduction of original manuscripts housed at the Lancashire Record Office, Preston.
The name of the parish church is St. Peter's. The town of Bolton is in the parish of Bolton-le-Moors
Many records are in poor condition due to water damage.

Lancashire Record Office: DRM/2/17-32

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 306919. 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.
  

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.

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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