Ardwick, St. Thomas
1740-1980
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Records of the Incumbent, including: baptism registers 1740-1976; marriage registers 1741-1753, 1837-1976; burial registers 1741-1903; banns books 1913-1978; marriage licences 1918-1973; letter concerning parish boundaries 1956; deeds of pews 1778, 1807-1808; assessments under ecclesiastical dilapidations measures 1939-1965; correspondence concerning churchyard 1953-1954; papers relating to building, insurance, and mortgage of rectory 1941, 1960-1961; rectors' notebooks 1822-1867; notes on incumbents 1741-1910; parish magazines 1873-1909, 1945-1976 (incomplete); confirmation register 1919-1975; register of services 1916-1978 (incomplete); burial services 1924-1932; book of remembrance c1919-1931 (parishioners death dates).
Trustees minutes 1831-1864. Records of the Churchwardens, including: offertory fund accounts 1811-1861; faculties 1831, 1843-1888, 1919-1968. Records of Churchwardens, Vestry and Parochial Church Council: churchwardens' accounts and vestry minutes 1807-1832, 1869-1970; Parochial Church Council minutes 1927-1966; correspondence 1947-1961; electoral roll 1948-1952.
Records of Societies: St Thomas's Men's Social Club licence to use parish room 1925; St Thomas's Men's Fellowship minutes 1958-1968. Records of School: schedule of deeds 1830-1873; accounts 1911-1912; correspondence c1817, 1859-1881; managers' minutes 1927-1980. Records of Sunday School: admission registers 1894-1920; baptism roll 1913-1917.
Related Material:The Archives Department also has Archdeacon John Rushton's Visitation Papers, May 1846 (MS f 942.72 R121 vol. 41).
The Local Studies Library holds:
Makepeace, Chris E. 'St. Thomas Ardwick: a brief history' (1981)
Place:/Ardwick/Lancashire/England
Manchester Metropolitan District/Greater Manchester/England
Repository:
Manchester Archives and Local Studies
Title:
Ardwick, St. Thomas
Date of work:
1740-1980
Reference number:
GB127.M273
Level of description:
Fonds
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Custodial history:
St Thomas's was built in 1740 on a site given by Samuel Birch, Esq, for the inhabitants of Ardwick and Chorlton Row. It was consecrated on 10 November 1741, being the second new church (after St Ann's) in the ancient parish of Manchester. It was designed by W. Hayley. It was enlarged in 1777 and 1831 and restored in 1882 and 1961.
Though marriages were solemnised from 1741 to 1753 a licence for marriages was only granted in 1837. It was assigned the township of Ardwick as its District by Order in Council, 14 September 1838 (London Gazette 29 Mar. 1839), with a definition of the boundaries by Order in Council, 24 June 1856 (London Gazette, 1 July 1856). Part of the parish was assigned to St Mark's, Gorton by Order in Council, 26 July 1866 (London Gazette, 27 July 1866). The boundaries with St Saviour's, Chorlton upon Medlock were altered in 1955 (Order in Council, 1 December, London Gazette, 6 December 1955). In 1978 the church was closed and the parish became part of the parish of St Luke the Physician, Longsight (Order in Council 29 September, London Gazette 5 October 1978).
Source:
These records were deposited in the Library as Diocesan Record Office by Rev A Cox in August 1977, by Rev A Ackerley in April 1982, and Rev P Clark in February 1987 and May 1989. Additional deposits made in 2000 (Accession number 2000/22) and 2007 (Accession number 2007/51)
Access restrictions:
UnrestrictedManchester Archives and Local Studies hold the following parish registers on microfilm: baptisms 1740-1876 (MFPR 1), 1876-1914 (MFPR 1178), 1914-1976 (MFPR 1179), marriages 1742-1753, 1837-1877 (MFPR 1), 1877-1896 (MFPR 1180), 1896-1914 (MFPR 1181), 1925-1976 (MFPR 1182), burials 1741-1854 (MFPR 182), burials 1741-1854 (MFPR 1182)
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Unrestricted
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Language:
English
Record number:
7192650
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