Radcliffe St Thomas, Lancashire Genealogy

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Chapelry History
St. Thomas's district, Radcliffe-Bridge, was formed in 1839, and has a population of 3000. The living is a perpetual curacy, also in the patronage of the Earl of Wilton, with a net income of £150, and a residence: the church was erected in 1819 by the Dowager Marchioness of Westminster, at a cost of £5000, and is a substantial stone building, fitted up with solid oak.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis (1848), pp. 627-630. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51228 Date accessed: 20 July 2010.

Radcliffe St Thomas is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Lancashire, created in 1821 from Radcliffe, St Mary Lancashire Ancient Parish.

Civil Registration
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Online index of Lancashire Births, Marriages and Deaths Lancashire_BMD

Church records
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Parish registers for St. Thomas' Church, Radcliffe, 1813-1964 Microfilm of originals in St. Thomas Church, Radcliffe, and at the Manchester Archives Central Library in Manchester, England. Manchester Archives Central Library call nos.: L155/1/1/3-7; L155/1/2/2-7; L155/1/3/4-10.

Census records
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Poor Law Unions
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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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