Reddish St Mary, Lancashire Genealogy

Parish History
Reddish St Mary was created as an ecclesiastical parish in 1864 from Manchester Our Lady, St George and St Denys, Lancashire Ancient Parish.

REDDISH, a township and a chapelry in Manchester parish, Lancashire. The township lies on the Stockport and Staleybridge railway, near the river Tame at the boundary with Cheshire, 2 miles N by E of Stockport; and has a station on the railway. Post-town, Stockport. Acres, 1,541. Real property, £8,444. Pop. in 1851, 1,218; in 1861, 1,363. Houses, 280. There are some handsome modern residences, inhabited by manufacturers of Stockport. There are also three cotton mills, print-works, and a paper manufactory. The chapelry is much more extensive than the township, was constitutedin 1864, and is called Heaton-Reddish. Pop., about 6,000. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £200. Patrons, Trustees. The church was built in 1864, at a cost of £2,500; and is in the decorated English style.

John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72)

Civil Registration
Post 1837 events may be searched online at Free BMD

Online index of Lancashire Births, Marriages and Deaths Lancashire BMD

Church records
 parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Reddish- St Mary Baptisms-1860-1930- MFPR 1808 or MFPR 2187 Baptisms-1930-1964- MFPR 1808 Baptisms-1964-1972- Archives L165 Marriages-1865-1892- MFPR 1809 or MFPR 2187 Marriages-1892-1925- MFPR 1809 Marriages-1925-1968- MFPR 1810 Marriages-1968-1990- Archives L165

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. Mary's Church, Reddish, 1860-1954 Microfilm of original records at the Manchester Archives Central Library in Manchester, England Reddish is a township and a chapelry in Manchester. The chapelry is also known as Heaton-Reddish. Manchester Archives Central Library call no.: L165/1/1/1; L165/1/2/3-8.

Poor Law Unions
Stockport Poor Law Union, Cheshire

Probate Records
Lancashire Probate Records

Web Sites
Church web site http://www.stmarysreddish.org/ http://www.achurchnearyou.com/stmarysreddish/

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=41434 British History Online Heaton Norris

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=41435 British History Online Reddish