Lydgate, Lancashire Genealogy

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Chapelry History
Lydgate St Anne was created as a chapel of ease 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, Upper division of the wapentake of Agbrigg, W. riding of York, 3 miles (N. N. E.) from Oldham, and 9 miles (N. E.) from Manchester. It is situated on the Stockton and New-Houses road, and on the line of the Huddersfield and Ashton canal; the surface is very hilly, the soil fertile in the valleys, and the scenery generally bold and romantic. There are numerous quarries of stone. The inhabitants are chiefly employed in the spinning of cotton, for which there are several mills in the neighbourhood, and one in the village. The chapel, erected by subscription in 1788, and dedicated to St. Ann, is a plain but substantial building, with a campanile turret: the living is a perpetual curacy, in the patronage of the Vicar of Rochdale, with a net income of £150."

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis (1848), pp. 194-198. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51125 Date accessed: 19 July 2010.

Civil Registration
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Saddleworth

Church records
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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.

Census records
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http://www.1881pubs.com/ for details of public houses in the 1881 census

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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