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Salford Diocese Parish Registers Project

29 Saturday Aug 2015

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The Salford Diocesan Archives are proceeding with a plan to digitise early parish registers from every one of churches in the diocese. The project is being supported by the diocesan hierarchy, and was given the support of the new Bishop, John Arnold in his recent Ad Clerum.

The project includes all baptism, confirmation, marriage and death registers deposited at Lancashire County Record Office, and those still held in the parishes, and covers dates up toRegisters of St Ann, Fairfield the mid 20th century.

As of the end of August 2015, the registers from all churches in the Borough of Manchester have been completed, with exception to Mount Carmel, Blackley, and this church is now scheduled for September.

The Boroughs of Stockport and Tameside were started in August, Heaton Norris has been competed and Denton is scheduled for September.

The Borough of Salford is also underway with only the Cathedral, St Peter’s, Greengate, St Thomas of Canterbury, Higher Broughton and St Edmund, Little Hulton, still being outstanding.

Once scanned and in PDF electronic book format, different registers are being passed on to the Manchester & Lancashire Family History Society, the Catholic Family History Society, the Lancashire Online Parish Clerks, and to other individuals for indexing and transcribing.

For more information the Salford Diocesan Archives can be contacted through their website below.

Salford Diocesan Archives

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24 Monday Aug 2015

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The English Catholic History Association are taking bookings for their visit to coventry-cathedralCoventry on Tuesday 8 September 2015.

The recently refurbished church of the Most Holy Sacrament and St Osburg is well worth a visit.  In addition you will have the pleasure of the famous ‘Three Cathedrals’ tour at Coventry Cathedral.

The programme is as follows:

  • 11 am  Visit to the Catholic church of St Osburg, Barras Lane, Coventry, CV1 4AQ
  • 12.10 pm  Mass at St Osburg’s
  • 12.45 pm  Make own arrangements for lunch – there are facilities in Coventry Cathedral for lunch and tea, for example
  • 2.15 pm  ‘Three Cathedrals’ guided tour at Coventry Cathedral
  • 4 pm  Departure

Cost:  £12 per person which includes admission to Coventry Cathedral and the guided tour. A booking form can be downloaded here.

ENGLAND JURISDICTIONS MAPS – 1851

24 Monday Aug 2015

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Thanks to British GENES (GEnealogy News and EventS) for letting me know about this useful web site.

The London FamilySearch Centre’s recently upgraded website now includes a series of interactive maps showing the boundaries of a range of key jurisdictions in England as at 1851. The separate layers available include:

  • Counties
  • Civil registration districts
  • Dioceses
  • Poor Law Unions
  • Hundreds

For each layer, you can zoom in to parish level and confirm the relevant jurisdiction. Readers can choose from three different background options:

  1. Map: A simple map
  2. Satellite: Modern arial view
  3. Ordnance Survey: 19th-century Ordnance Survey map

When you find an locality of interest, you can home in on “street view” or follow up a range of options such as compiling a list of parishes within a particular district. Your search can also move on to discover associated material in the Library catalogue and Research Wiki .

This facility is a major boost for anyone with English ancestry. It is particularly helpful if you do not live in the same area as your forebears and are unfamiliar with the record-keeping organisations that operated there in the past.

The facility is available at http://londonfamilyhistory.org/jurisdiction-maps/

(With thanks to Francis Howcutt and Philippa McCray)

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