Ainsworth, Lancashire Family History
Ainsworth is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Lancashire, created in 1725 from a chapelry in Middleton Ancient Parish.
Parish registers begin: 1727
Nonconformists include: Methodist New Connexion and Presbyterian Unitarian.
Table of Contents
Adjacent Parishes
Ainsworth Parish Registers
Baptisms, Marriages and Burials
These records include images of Church of England Bishop’s Transcripts of baptism, marriage and burial records.
Ainsworth, Church of England Bishop’s Transcripts Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1730-1812
Parish History
The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1851
Ainsworth, or Cochey in Middleton, a chapelry in the parish of Middleton, co. palatine of Lancaster; 9 miles from Manchester. Living, a perpetual curacy in the archd. and dio. of Chester; gross income £136. Patron, the rector of Middleton. The inhabitants are chiefly employed in the cotton manufacture. Pop., in 1801. 1,240; in 1831, 1,584. Houses 258. Acres 1,090. A. P. £2,213. Poor rates, in 1837, £345.
Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1851.
Maps
Vision of Britain Historical Maps – includes topographic maps, boundary maps and land use maps
Administration
- County: Lancashire
- Civil Registration District: Bury
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Chester (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Manchester
- Rural Deanery: Bolton le Moors
- Poor Law Union: Bury
- Hundred: Salford
- Province: York