England
& Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index |
The ParishThe parish of Prestwich lies in southeastern Lancashire and covers an extensive area to the north of Manchester. Besides the town of Prestwich itself the parish also contained the chapelries of Oldham and, later, that of Hollingwood within an eastern detached extension of the basic parish. Prestwich, itself, lies roughly 4 miles north of Manchester and sits on the A56 road which connects Manchester with Bury. As mentioned the parish covers a broad extent being 15miles from east to west and 4 from north to south. Like most Lancashire parishes in this area its population grew immensely from the industrialisation of the 19th century and Prestwich grew from a small market town to a large industrial town during that period. Manufacturing of cloth was the principal driver with the swift running streams and then coal power driving the expansion of cotton mills into the area. Prior to that growth the parish was alargely rural and pastoral landscape, some market gardening on the lower ground to provide produce for the growing city of Manchester just to the south. Prestwich's separation also lead to it becoming a favoured retreat for wealthier Manchester businessmen with a large number of their mansion's decorating the parish. Today Prestwich is totally embraced within the broader metropolitan area that industrial Lancashire has become with few green breaks from Eccles to Stalybridge and Bury to Altincham, a vast sea of housing and industry, the power house of the county. A plethroa of modern developments came to the town, canal, railway and road links too many to specifically mention beyond the presence of the modern M60 motorway, Manchester's ring, which cuts through to the north of Prestwich.Prrestwich is drained by the River Irwell leading to the Mersey and thus the Irish Sea through the port of Liverpool. Prestwich town is sited at around 80 metres above the sea but the wider parish rises to the western Pennine range reaching well over 300 metres on its eastern flanks. The huge parish covered a little over 21,600 acres and the population would have risen steadily during the period of this transcription reaching over 78,000 by its closure albeit most of those would have been resident in Oldham which carries its own page. Despite its later importance Prestwich is not specifically mentioned in Domesday Book which has sparse coverage within this area. |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
1 | 15th April 1754 - 2nd July 1761 | Manchester Archives & Local History - Reference
- GB127.L160/1/4/1 |
Plain, ruled & margined book containing Marriages | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
2 | 5th July 1761 - 31st December 1773 | Manchester Archives & Local History - Reference
- GB127.L160/1/4/2 |
Plain, ruled & margined book containing Marriages | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | The early portion of this register suffers from tight binding hiding parts of the dates, these were added from the BTs to mitigate |
3 | 1st January 1774 - 29th December 1779 | Manchester Archives & Local History - Reference
- GB127.L160/1/4/3 |
Plain, unruled book containing Marriages | Grade 4 Register - there are notable quality issues with this register which may have resulted in many misreads | The register suffers in places from staining making
for tricky reading, handwriting, too, lapses into poor quality at
times making for a likelihood of misreads. This register, too, suffers from tight binding necessitating the retrieval of some date information from BTs. |
4 | 1st January 1780 - 6th August 1787 | Manchester Archives & Local History
- Reference - GB127.L160/1/4/4 |
Plain, unruled book containing Marriages | Grade 4 Register - there are notable quality issues with this register which may have resulted in many misreads |
The register suffers badly from fading making for a challenging read at times. Thankfully the BTs are in a good state and were used to mitigate this fault, misreads may still, however, be prevalent |
5 | 5th August 1787 - 21st April 1793 | Manchester Archives & Local History - Reference
- GB127.L160/1/4/5 |
Plain, unruled book containing Marriages | Grade 4 Register - there are notable quality issues with this register which may have resulted in many misreads |
The register suffers badly from fading making for a challenging read at times. Thankfully the BTs are in a good state and were used to mitigate this fault, misreads may still, however, be prevalent |
6 | 28th April 1793 - 28th December 1800 | Manchester Archives & Local History - Reference
- GB127.L160/1/4/6 |
Plain, unruled book containing Marriages | Grade 3 Register - there are sufficient quality issues with this register to indicate that some misreads will occur albeit few in number | Fading is much reduced but still sufficient to possibly cause a few misreads |
7 | 1st January/1801 - 16th July 1809 | Manchester Archives & Local History - Reference
- GB127.L160/1/4/7 |
Nonstandard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register, it is nonstandard by having 5 entries per page | Grade 1 Register - Few issues noted and a low likelihood of misreads | None |
8 | 16th July 1809 - 19th August 1819 | Manchester Archives & Local History - Reference
- GB127.L160/1/4/8 |
Nonstandard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register, it is nonstandard by having 5 entries per page | Grade 3 Register - there are sufficient quality issues with this register to indicate that some misreads will occur albeit few in number | Fading of this register towards the latter stages
may result in one or two misreads NB the parish chose not to finish the register on the introduction of Rose's Act keeping it active until completion in 1819 |
9 | 22nd August 1819 - 2nd November 1821 | Manchester Archives & Local History - Reference - GB127.L160/1/4/9 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 1 Register - Few issues noted and a low likelihood of misreads | None |
10 | 3rd November 1821 - 16th August 1828 | Manchester Archives & Local History - Reference - GB127.L160/1/4/10 | Nonstandard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 5 entries per page. It is nonstandard in being not a Rose design, having 5 entries per page and also being unnumbered | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
11 | 17th August 1828 - 22nd July 1834 | Manchester Archives & Local History - Reference - GB127.L160/1/4/11 | Nonstandard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 4 entries per page. It is nonstandard in being not a Rose design, having 4 entries per page and also being unnumbered | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
12 | 22nd July 1834 - 29th June 1837 | Manchester Archives & Local History - Reference - GB127.L160/1/4/12 | Nonstandard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 4 entries per page. It is nonstandard in being not a Rose design, having 4 entries per page and also being unnumbered | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
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St Peter
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Radcliffe
St Mary
Bury St Mary |
Middleton
St Leonard
Rochdale St Chad Halifax St John, Yorkshire |
Eccles
St Mary
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Manchester
Cathedral
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Ashton
under Lyne St Michael
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