Rochdale St Chad, Lancashire Genealogy

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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 miles north by northeast of Manchester.

Rochdale St Chad Parish, with nearly a hundred thousand inhabitants by 1870, was not the only church built to serve its population. Because of St Chad's large population, its boundary was divided up into numerous chapelry districts with chapels of ease (or churches) attached to it and serving within its parish boundary (a total of nearly 20). Be certain to see the Comprehensive List of Rochdale Chapelries in order to identify its chapels and the availability of all their registers which covered this very populous ancient parish so that you can conduct thorough research in this vast parish's population.

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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Parish registers for St. Chad's, Rochdale, 1592-1900 Microfilm of original records in possession of the Manchester Public Libraries.Microfilm purchased from the Rochdale Central Library, Rochdale, Lancashire.Baptisms for the chapelries of Littleborough, Whitworth, and the parish of St. Mary's Wardleworth are separate for some years.

Lancashire Online Parish Clerks Project
http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/Rochdale/index.html is a useful resource and contains transcripts of Births, marriages and Burials from the parish registers

Census records
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.

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53027 British History online