Levenshulme Lancashire Family History Guide
Levenshulme originally a township in Manchester Our Lady St George and St Denys Ancient Parish. It was created a separate Ecclesiastical Parish in 1861 from parts of the ecclesiastical parishes of Heaton Norris (the original area of the township of Levenshulme), Gorton Ecclesiastical Parish, and Birch in Rusholme Ecclesiastical Parish. It became a separate civil parish in 1866.
Levenshulme Ecclesiastical Parish ecclesiastical boundary was altered in 1886 with the creation of Birch in Rusholme St Agnes Ecclesiastical Parish, in 1899 with the creation of South Levensholme Ecclesiastical Parish, in 1902 to create Levensholme St Mark Ecclesiastical Parish and in 1925 to create Gorton St Mary and St Thomas Ecclesiastical Parish.
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Levenshulme Parish History
Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales 1895
Levenshulme, a village, a township, and a parochial chapelry in Manchester parish, Lancaster. The village stands on the Manchester and Stockport branch of the L. & N.W.R., 3 miles SE by S of Manchester, and has a station on the railway. It has also a station on the M.S. & L.R., and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Manchester. The township comprises 606 acres; population, 5506. There are many modern residences of Manchester families, a print work, and a bleaching work. The chapelry is more extensive than the township, and was constituted in 1861. Population, 5523. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Manchester; gross value, £450. There are places of worship for four denominations of dissenters. By the Parish Council Act the local board was converted into a district council.
Source: Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales; Brabner, John Henry Fryden; Volume: 4; William Mackenzie, London. 1895.
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
LEVENSHULME, a village, a township, and a parochial chapelry, in Manchester parish, Lancaster. The village stands near the Manchester and Stockport railway, 3 miles SE by S of Manchester; and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Manchester. The township comprises 605 acres. Real property, £8,267. Pop. in 1851,1,902; in 1861,2,095. Houses, 421. There are many modern residences of Manchester families, two small cotton mills, and bleaching works. The chapelry is more extensive than the township, and was constituted in 1861. Pop., 2,538. Houses, 515. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Manchester. Value, not reported. Patrons, Trustees. There are chapels for Independents, Wesleyans, Free Methodists, and Roman Catholics. There is also a convent. The Free Methodist chapel was built in 1864; and a school, in connexion with it, to accommodate 250 children, was built in 1866. National schools were erected in 1855.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Levenshulme Parish Registers
Bishop’s transcripts for St. Peter’s Church, Levenshulme, 1904 – Church of England. St. Peter’s Church (Levenshulme, Lancashire)
Church records, 1800-1837 – Methodist Church (Levenshulme, England)