Manchester All Souls, Lancashire Genealogy

England Lancashire  Lancashire Parishes

Chapelry History
All Souls' district church [was created], in the early Norman style, with two turrets, [and] was erected in Everystreet, Ancoats, in 1839, by subscription, and by a grant of £500 from the Incorporated and Diocesan Societies; it contains 1397 sittings, of which 697 are free.

Adapted from: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis (1848), pp. 221-247. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51130 Date accessed: 19 July 2010.

Manchester All Souls Ancoats is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Lancashire, created in 1842 from Manchester Our Lady, St George and St Denys, Lancashire Ancient Parish. See web site link below for Henry Mantell's background history of the Manchester Collegiate Church)

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
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Bishop's transcripts for All Soul's Church, Manchester, 1763-1847 Microreproduction of original manuscripts housed at the Lancashire Record Office, Preston. Filmed with: Bishop's transcripts, 1763, 1810-1845 / Church of England. St. Ann's Church (Manchester). The church became known as All Soul's Ancoats in 1850. Ancoats is a suburb within Manchester. Lancashire Record Office: DRM/2/186/4

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

Poor Law Unions
Manchester 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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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Henry Mantell's article http://www.aidan.co.uk/article_manchester_cathedral.htm explains the influence of the Dean and Fellows of the Collegiate church on Manchester Parish records