Manchester Diocese Parish Registers - ancestry

[kiterunner]

Update to post - these are now live.

Baptisms, Marriages and Burials 1541-1812 (http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=2959)
Marriages and Banns 1754-1930 (http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=2962)
Deaths and Burials 1813-1985 (http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=2963)
Baptisms, Marriages and Burials (Cathedral) 1573-1812 (http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=2964)
Births and Baptisms 1813-1901 (Cathedral) (http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=2965)
Marriages and Banns 1754-1930 (Cathedral) (http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=2967)
Deaths and Burials 1813-1866 (Cathedral) (http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=2968)
Births and Baptisms 1813-1915 (http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=2960)


I've just seen in the FFHS Ezine that ancestry is planning to put the Manchester Diocese parish registers online next month:

Ashton under Lyne, Bolton, Bury, Leigh, Manchester, Newchurch, Oldham, Old Trafford, Salford and Stretford. Over 6 million records have been digitised and name indexed, including baptisms (to 1915), marriages (to 1930) and burials. It is hoped to add the non-Conformist Church registers later in the year.

Very exciting! I'm surprised to see this, though, because I thought findmypast were doing all the Manchester stuff. I do prefer ancestry over findmypast for parish registers because their search facility is better even if transcriptions are worse, so I'm glad to hear it will be them.

[ElizabethHerts]

Great news, Kate. That should keep me busy for months.:D

[Mary from Italy]

Ooh, fantastic!

[ElizabethHerts]

I wonder what "soon" means?
Soon to me is in the next week or so, but that's because I'm impatient.:D

[Mary from Italy]

"Next month" is soon!

[Muggins in Sussex]

Thanks Kite - I wish the baptism records were going to go up to 1919!

[kiterunner]

It is being advertised on ancestry's front page as "coming soon" now, so hopefully that means imminent!

[ElizabethHerts]

I have the (nice) dilemma of which piece of research to pursue next. I have put my Lincolnshire ancestors on hold whilst I delve into my Buckinghamshire roots, and soon I shall be distracted by researching my father's Manchester family and OH's too!

Decisions, decisions!:D

[kiterunner]

Hooray! Manchester Parish Records are now live!

Baptisms, Marriages and Burials 1541-1812 (http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=2959)
Marriages and Banns 1754-1930 (http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=2962)
Deaths and Burials 1813-1985 (http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=2963)
Baptisms, Marriages and Burials (Cathedral) 1573-1812 (http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=2964)
Births and Baptisms 1813-1901 (Cathedral) (http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=2965)
Marriages and Banns 1754-1930 (Cathedral) (http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=2967)
Deaths and Burials 1813-1866 (Cathedral) (http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=2968)
Births and Baptisms 1813-1915 (http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=2960)

[ElizabethHerts]

There's no hope for me of getting any domestic chores done - two minutes in and I'm turning up burials for my Alexanders!

[ElizabethHerts]

The first thing I've downloaded is the burial record for my 4xgrt-grandfather's first wife and son, aged 6 months, on the same date so presumably in the same grave.

[kiterunner]

The births and baptisms 1813-1915 are now available.

[tenterfieldjulie]

Ooh Ooh looks like I'll have to stop procrastinating ... Yeah Manchester

[Mary from Italy]

Ooh! And I'm supposed to be working :(

[maggie_4_7]

Oooh oooh I am at work want to go home and search!

[Merry]

I can't find anything to look for *weeps*......

[marquette]

There's no hope for me of getting any domestic chores done - two minutes in and I'm turning up burials for my Alexanders!
me either, no H*K here today - lots of Eccles, Beevers and Featherstones to find.

One mystery already - George Beever was a widower when he married in 1872, found his first marriage to Constantia Elizabeth Johnson in 1868, but cannot find her death !! George's sister named her daughter Constantia Elizabeth in 1871, but not other traces !!
Edit - found it, I think - Constance Elizabeth Beever, 26, freemd Sep Q 1871 Wolstanton Staffs ! That needs investigating for sure.

[Langley Vale Sue]

Just found my GG grandparents marriage in 1871. :) I recently forked out for their marriage certificate from GRO too! :(

Oh well, that's two documents for them now.

[Langley Vale Sue]

Ooooh - found my G grandmother's baptism too. :)

[Merry]

In desperation, I did look for OC's Joseph Holden/Grimshaw (the boy only his mother could love), because I had no one else to search for, but didn't find anything!

[Mary from Italy]

I've been searching for Grimshaws too. Unfortunately Manchester's teeming with them.

[Mary from Italy]

I'm finding hardly any burials, although I'm sure there ought to be some for the people I'm looking for. It's the same with the Warwickshire and West Yorkshire records on Ancestry. Maybe the burial records aren't complete? I known the Manc non-con records aren't online yet.

[kiterunner]

Could it be because the people you're looking for were buried in municipal cemeteries, Mary? Manchester General Cemetery opened in 1837, for instance - or are the burials you're looking for earlier than that?

[Mary from Italy]

There are some around 1842-44 I can't find, so they might be in the municipal cemetery. The ones who died later all moved to Bradford, but I haven't found burials for any of the people I would expect to have died in Manc pre-1837.

It doesn't help that I'm searching for rather common names, and not all the burials give the street name or occupation, depending on the date.

[marquette]

Could it be because the people you're looking for were buried in municipal cemeteries, Mary? Manchester General Cemetery opened in 1837, for instance - or are the burials you're looking for earlier than that?

That would seem to be why I cannot find some of the burials I wanted, to see if the deaths and burials I have are the "right" ones.

It would also seem that the Eccles family did not baptise their children for several months, so where the children died under a year, they were not baptised - I found two deaths for 4xg grandparents babies, but only no baptism.

[Mary from Italy]

I'd forgotten that I had the Mancs burial site bookmarked, which includes the General Cemetery. Off to have a look.

http://www.burialrecords.manchester.gov.uk/

[Mary from Italy]

What a pain - I did find one person on the Mancs burial site, duly bought some credits to view the page from the register, and it took me to the wrong page! Took ages to find a contact form. I hope they can fix the problem, because I wasted a credit on it.

[kiterunner]

These have been updated.