Rochdale St Chad, Lancashire Genealogy

England  Lancashire  Lancashire Parishes  See a Comprehensive List of Rochdale Chapelries '''Part of this parish is in Yorkshire. See also Rochdale St Chad, Yorkshire.''' Parish History ROCHDALE St Chad, a borough, market-town, and parish, and the head of a union, chiefly in the hundred of Salford, S. division of the county of Lancaster, but partly in the Upper division of the wapentake of Agbrigg, W. riding of York, 10½&#160;miles north by northeast&#160;of&#160;Manchester.A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis (1848), pp. 679-686.&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;nbsp;Adapted. Date accessed: 20 July 2010. Rochdale St Chad Parish, serving&#160;a population of&#160;nearly one hundred thousand&#160;(by 1851), was not the only church built within its boundary.&#160;St Chad's&#160;parish boundary was divided up into about twenty&#160;chapelry districts, each with is own chapel of ease (or church), with baptism and burial registers (rarely marriages--which&#160;instead were usually performed at&#160;the ancient parish of St Chad's, Rochdale),&#160;standing&#160;within its parish boundary. Be certain to see the Comprehensive List of Rochdale Chapelries</a>&#160;in order to identify its&#160;chapels and the&#160;availability of all their&#160;registers&#160;which covered&#160;this ancient parish. Identifying&#160;all of&#160;St Chad's chapels will greatly faclitate thorough&#160;research in this&#160;parish. For a list of other places within the boundary of this parish, view an excellent 1870 historical summary of Rochdale at VisionofBritain</a>. Resources Cemeteries</a> The Family History Library's British collection has <span class="fck_mw_template">. Civil Registration of Births, Marriages &amp; Deaths&#160;- 1837 to the Present</a> Read about England Civil Registration</a> (vital records) of birth, marriages and deaths on the England main page. Online Indexes There are two separate (free)&#160;indexes available for Lancashire civil registration of births, marriages and deaths. One index&#160;covers all registrations nation-wide, and one index covers the copies of the local registration districts'&#160;certificate copies for all registration districts throughout Lancashire,&#160;as follows: <ul><li>FreeBMD</a> - an online (free) nation-wide index&#160;to the certificates&#160;held at the&#160;General Registrar's Office, formerly in London, now in Solihull, Merseyside, UK. The years currently covered in this index include&#160;July, 1837 to at least 1940. </li><li>LancashireBMD</a> - an online index (free) to&#160;county-wide&#160;births, marriages and deaths for all&#160;registration districts throughout Lancashire, for the following range of years and their events:&#160;births 1837-1974</a>; marriages 1837-2010</a>; deaths 1837-1975</a>. </li><li>Lancashire-OPC.org.uk (below)&#160;provides&#160;numerous parish and chapel transcriptions online (free) running concurrent with&#160;the post-1837 to 1910 period. While the parish registers are&#160;not certified copies of the civil certificates of birth and death, they do however,&#160;often provide primary source birth (baptisms/christenings) and death (burials) information;&#160;of especial note are the&#160;post-1837 parish marriage registers which&#160;provide&#160;an exact replica of the civil registration certificates of marriages. </li></ul> Indexes FamilySearch's Family History Library&#160;<span class="fck_mw_template"> from July, 1837 to 1983 in microform media. Church Records</a> Online Records&#160; St Chad Rochdale parish&#160;has been a very populated township possessing about 20 or more chapelries, and district churches&#160;each with church&#160;registers.&#160;There are&#160;online transcriptions for&#160;St Chad Rochdale Parish, and&#160;for the&#160;baptism, marriage and burial registers of many&#160;of its attached&#160;chapelries lying within its boundary. Displayed&#160;below are those chapelries attached to&#160;St Chad ancient parish) along with the ranges of years for which there are available&#160;online data&#160;at the web sites indicated below:&#160; &#160;   Those registers of St Chad's and its other&#160;chapelries which have no known online content, include the following ones:   - St Chad's Rochdale - bapts 1836-1900&#160;(the ancient/mother parish) - St Mary Rochdale - 1742 (bapts &amp; marriages; burials are available through FamilySearch</a>) - St Martin Rochdale - 1820 - Littleborough - 1741 - nil - Lydgate St Marys - from 1788 - Saddleworth - from 1612 -&#160;Smallbridge - from 1834 - Spotland St Clement - from 1835&#160; - Todmorden - from 1625 - Todmorden Christ Church - from 1832 - Walsden - from 1845&#160; - Wardleworth St James - from 1821 - Wardle with Wuerdle St John (see Smallbridge) - Wardleworth St Mary the Baum – from 1747&#160; &#160; While the above chapelries and St Chad's registers do not currently have online indexed content, FamilySearch does have microfilm copies of the original Bishop's transcripts and/or parish registers for most of Rochdale's chapels of ease and&#160;churches. Most of the original church or chapel&#160;registers are found at the Manchester Central Library Local Studies Unit, Lancashire, England, or, at the local chapel. Census</a> The Family History Library has an 1851 census surname index of Lancashire - Rochdale, Butterworth &amp; Castleton subdistricts: Public Redords Office ref HO 107/2244. FHL British Book 942.72 X22c v 21 and on FHL British Microfiche 6414326 Poor Law Unions Rochdale Parish was the head of a poor law union. Probate records with indexes are available for Hawkshead Parish</a> Go to the&#160;Lancashire Probate Records</a> and follow the step by step instructions to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction and search the records. Maps and Gazetteers Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place. <ul><li>England Jurisdictions 1851</a> </li><li>Vision of Britain</a> </li></ul> Web sites <span class="fck_mw_template"> References <span class="fck_mw_template"> &#160;

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