Ellenbrook St Mary the Virgin, Lancashire Genealogy

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Guide to Ellenbrook, Lancashire family history and genealogy. Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History

ELLENBROOK, (St Mary the Virgin) a chapelry, with a railway station, in Eccles, Lancashire parish, Lancashire; on the Manchester and Wigan railway, 2½ miles E of Tyldesley. It was founded in 1758. Historically within the Diocese of Chester, the modern parish is part of the diocese of Manchester. Ellenbrook is part of the City of Salford.

Though its origins are uncertain, Ellenbrook chapel possibly existed in the early 13th century. It is not known whether a contemporary reference to a chapel at Worsley referred to Ellenbrook chapel, or to another chapel in the hall of the lords of Worsley. It was an outlying chapel within the parish of Eccles, the nearest churches being at Eccles, Lancashire,  Leigh, Lancashire and Deane, Lancashire in Bolton. It was probably established through a grant from the Benedictine Abbot of Stanlawe Abbey (on the Mersey estuary) to Richard de Worsley, with the Benedictines staffing the chapel and paying sixpence a year to Eccles church to acknowledge the chapel's subsidiary status. The monks later moved from Stanlow to Whalley Abbey.
In 1581, the chapel was endowed by Dorothy Brereton. Dorothy, daughter of Sir Richard Egerton of Ridley, Cheshire had married Richard Brereton of Worsley and Tatton, Lord of the Manor of Worsley, in 1572. Richard died in 1598, and was buried in Eccles Parish Church, and Dorothy married Sir Peter Legh of Lyme Hall, Cheshire in 1604. She was widowed again in 1636.

Dame Dorothy Legh died in 1639, and was buried in Eccles church. She bequeathed £400 to Ellenbrook chapel to buy Common Head Farm at Mosley Common, the income from which established Dame Dorothy Legh's Charity, which continues today. Following a legal dispute in the 1650s, it was determined that the charity would support the minister of Ellenbrook chapel and the local poor.

The first known minister at Ellenbrook was a Mr. Hunt, in around 1608. The chapel was not continously served by a resident minister, and during the 17th century numerous ministers were associated with Ellenbrook, many for only a few months. Of these, the longest-serving was Thomas Johnson whose service of some 30 years ended around 1646. Johnson was a renowned puritan, who left Ellenbrook to become Rector of Stockport until his death in 1656.

Perhaps the most notorious of the 17th century ministers was William Coulburn, who was at Ellenbrook from 1657 to around 1663. In 1663 he was arrested, possibly for trying to steal money through confidence tricks, an act which he perpetrated in various other parts of England in subsequent years. Despite numerous question marks over his character, Coulburn returned to Lancashire as minister at  Mottram in Longendale, Cheshire, where he was buried following his death in around 1697.

Resources

Civil Registration

Post 1837 events may be search online at Free BMD

Ellenbrook is part of Salford registration district.

Online index of Lancashire Births, Marriages and Deaths Lancashire BMD

Church Records

Online Records  

Ellenbrook chapelry's registers of christenings, marriages and burials, along with those of the ancient parish of Eccles to which it is attached, have been mostly transcribed and are displayed online at the following web sites and ranges of years: 

AC = Ancestry.co.uk (£)

FMP = FindMyPast.co.uk (£)

FREG = FreeReg

FS = FamilySearch.org

LBMD = LancashireBMD.org.uk

LOPC = Lancashire Online Parish Clerk

 

ELLENBROOK ST MARY THE VIRGIN Chapelry (1768) Indexes
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	1851-1852	None	None
LOPC	1768-1852	None	None
AC	None	None	None
ECCLES ST MARY PARISH (1563) Indexes (ancient parish containing ELLENBROOK Chapelry)
	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
FS	1564-1632	1564-1632	None
LOPC	1819-1848	1565-1873	1810-1842
LBMD	None	1837-1940	None
FMP	None	1565-1758	None
AC	1563-1666	1563-1666	1563-1663
FREG	1564-1632	1564-1632	1563-1632

 

For a full list of all those chapels surrounding Ellenbrook and comprising the whole ancient parish of Eccles to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the ECCLES PARISH page.

Ellenbrook- St Mary the Virgin
Baptisms-1818-1902- MFPR 1678
Burials-1828-1828- MFPR 1678
Burials-1833-1833- MFPR 1678
See also Ellenbrook Chapel for baptisms recorded in the  Leigh, St Mary the Virgin registers and  St Mary Eccles, Lancashire registers

The Manchester Room and Greater Manchester County Record Office
Email: archiveslocalstudies@manchester.gov.uk

The Manchester Room@City Library (Local Studies)

Parish registers for Ellenbrook, 1818-1902 Microfilm of original records at the Manchester Archives Central Library in Manchester, England.
Ellenbrook is a chapelry in Eccles parish and later in Worsley parish. The chapel is known as St. Mary's.
Manchester Archives Central Library call nos.: L119/1/1/1-4.

Content	Film
Baptisms, 1818-April 1842.	FHL BRITISH Film 1408572 Items 10 - 11
Baptisms, December 1841-1902. Burials, 1828, 1833, 1844.	FHL BRITISH Film 1408573 Items 1 - 3

Bishop's transcripts for Eccles, 1613-1864 Microreproduction of original manuscripts housed at the Lancashire Record Office, Preston.
Bishop's transcripts from the parish of Eccles and the chapelries of St. Thomas' (Pendleton), St. Peter's (Swinton), Ellenbrook, St. Paul's (Walkden Moor), St. John's (Pendlebury), St. Catherine's (Barton-upon-Irwell) and St. Mark's (Worsley).
Lancashire Record Office: DRM/2/82-108

Content	Film
Baptisms, marriages and burials of Eccles, 1777-1797 (includes baptisms and burials from the chapelries of St. Thomas in Pendleton from 1776, St. Peter in Swinton from 1792; and baptisms from Ellenbrook from 1781)	FHL BRITISH Film 1545487
Baptisms, marriages and burials of Eccles, 1798-1815 (Includes baptisms and burials from Swinton and Pendleton and baptisms from Ellenbrook)	FHL BRITISH Film 1545488
Baptisms, marriages and burials of Eccles, 1814-1820 (includes baptisms and burials from Swinton and baptisms from Ellenbrook)	FHL BRITISH Film 1545489
Baptisms, marriages and burials from Eccles, 1820-1824 (includes baptisms and burials from Swinton and Pendleton and baptisms from Ellenbrook)	FHL BRITISH Film 1545490
Baptisms, marriages and burials of Eccles, 1825-1828 (Includes baptisms and burials of Swinton and Pendleton and baptisms of Ellenbrook)	FHL BRITISH Film 1545491
Baptisms, marriages and burials of Eccles, 1829-1832 (Includes baptisms and burials of Swinton, and Pendleton and baptisms of Ellenbrook)	FHL BRITISH Film 1545549
Baptisms, marriages and burials of Eccles, 1833-1836 (includes baptisms and burials of Swinton and Pendleton and baptisms of Ellenbrook)	FHL BRITISH Film 1545550
Marriages, 1837 and baptisms and burials, 1837-1843 of Eccles. (Includes Ellenbrook, Swinton, Pendleton, St. Paul's in Walkden Moor, from 1839, St. John's in Pendlebury , 1842-1843, and St. Catherine's in Barton-upon-Irwell from 1843.)	FHL BRITISH Film 1545551
Baptisms and burials, 1844-1850 of Eccles; and also the chapelries of Pendleton, Swinton, Walkden Moor, Barton-upon-Irwell, Ellenbrook, and St. Mark's in Worsley (from 1846)	FHL BRITISH Film 1545552
Baptisms and burials, 1851-1857 of Eccles, with the chapelries of Swinton, Barton, Pendleton, Walkden Moor to 1851 and Ellenbrook to 1852	FHL BRITISH Film 1545553

Census Records

Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a FamilySearch Center or at the FamilySearch Library.

Poor Law Unions

Salford, Lancashire Poor Law Union

Probate Records

Lancashire Probate Jurisdictions, Parishes E through G

Maps

England Jurisdictions 1851

Web Sites

http://www.achurchnearyou.com/st-mary-the-virgin-ellenbrook/ for information about the parish

Family History Library (FHL); now called, FamilySearch Library (FSL)