I have just been reading through the list of churches, which I previously sent to the list. I noticed that I have typed SS Simon and June. This should, of course, be SS Simon and Jude. Anne in Bolton. ----- Original Message ----- From: "pneanne" <pne.anne@ntlworld.com> To: <ENG-LAN-BOLTON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 7:44 AM Subject: [ENG-LAN-BOLTON] ANCIENT PARISHES AND TOWNSHIPS > Ancient Parishes and Townships - From the handlist of Registers at Bolton > Archives and Local Studies. > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-1; > reply-type=response > > For local goverment and other purposes, the ancient parishes were > subdivided > into a number of divisions known as townships. > > The Parish of Bolton le Moors included Anglezarke, Rivington, Sharples, > Longworth, Turton, Entwistle, Edgworth, Quarlton, Longworth, Bradshaw, > Harwood, Little Bolton, Tonge with Haulgh, Breightmet, Darcy Lever, Little > Lever, Blackrod and Lostock The Parish Church was in Great Bolton with > Chapels of Ease at Turton, Rigvington, Blackrod, Bradshaw, Walmsley and > Little Bolton. > > The Parish of Deane included Horwich, Halliwell, Heaton, Deane, Rumworth, > Westhoughton, Over Hulton, Middle Hulton, Farnworth, Little Hulton and > Kearsley. The Parish Church was in Deane with Chapels of Ease at Horwich, > Westhoughton and Peel. > > Great Lever was in the Parish of Middleton. > > Bolton Town Centre Parishes > > Although the whole of our area lay within only three ancient parishes, > namely Bolton-le-Moors, Deane and Middleton, owing to the rapid growth in > population which occurred during the nineteenth century, many additional > churches were built during this period, particularly in Bolton town > centre. > Most of these became independent parishes. A plan of the town centre > showing these 'new' parishes as they were about the year 1910 is on > display > in the search room. Here is a list of them, with the dates of their > earliest registers. > > Bolton Town Centre Parishes > > All Saints, Little Bolton 1796 > All Souls, Little Bolton 1879 > Bolton Parish Church, St. Peter 1573 > Christ Church, Great Bolton 1841 > Emmanuel, Great Bolton 1842 > Holy Trinity, Great Bolton 1826 > St. Barnabas, Little Bolton 1896 > St. Bartholomew, Great Lever > and Great Bolton 1879 > St. George, Little Bolton 1796 > St. George the Martyr, > Daubhill 1881 > St. James, Little Bolton 1863 > St. John, Little Bolton 1846 > St. Luke, Halliwell 1876 > St. Margaret, Halliwell 1907 > St. Mark, Great Bolton 1866 > St. Matthew, Little Bolton 1874 > St. Paul, Great Bolton 1863 > St. Peter (Bolton Parish Church) 1573 > St. Philip, Great Bolton 1897 > SS Simon and June, Great > Lever 1901 > > Anne in Bolton > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bob Thornley" <bob@thornleysystems.co.uk> > To: <ENG-LAN-BOLTON-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2006 4:27 PM > Subject: Re: [ENG-LAN-BOLTON] PARISH CHURCH OF TONGE MOOR > > >> Hi Barbara, >> St Mary's Deane (single 'n', by the way, and in its early years lacking >> the ultimate 'e') certainly is the parish church of Deane Parish. >> >> I think I'm right in saying that Deane was not originally part of Bolton >> le Moors, but was an adjoining parish in its own right in the Salford >> Hundred. >> >> I can accept the possibility that the first two parishes of what is now >> Bolton might have been Bolton le Moors and Dean(e), and that Bolton grew >> rapidly and new parishes were formed within the expanded boundaries >> and/or >> population, but the question is whether the churches having jurisdiction >> over these parishes where parish churches or chapels of ease, as shown on >> the map provided by Martin. >> >> If the latter then would not that make the areas chapelries rather than >> parishes? The definitions of the terms seem to me to suggest that this >> would be the logical conclusion, but I haven't found a reliable statement >> of the de facto situation, which may well not be logical at all. >> >> Perhaps I should watch the football and forget about it. >> >> Eng- l- a -a nd! >> >> Rgds, Bob Thornley, Bolton >> >> From: BARBARA WINDER >> Deanne in Bolton certainly has its own church, its own parish and its own >> rector- with parts dating from the Saxon era it also is older than St >> Peters. >> Barbara >> >> ==== ENG-LAN-BOLTON Mailing List ==== >> To switch from one mode to the other, unsubscribe from one and then >> subscribe to the other. >> >> ============================== >> Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. >> New content added every business day. 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