Friarmere Yorkshire Family History Guide
Friarmere is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1795 from Rochdale Ancient Parish.
Alternative names: Friar Mere, Rochdale St Thomas
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1769
- Bishop’s Transcripts: None
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Presbyterian, and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
- Marsden
- East Crompton Lancashire
- Milnrow Lancashire
- Rochdale St Chad Lancashire
- Oldham St James Lancashire
- Saddleworth
- Dobcross
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
FRIARMERE, a chapelry in Saddleworth township, Rochdale parish, and W. R. Yorkshire; at the backbone of England, contiguous to Lancashire, 1 mile N of Delph r. station, and 6½ SE of Rochdale.
It was constituted in 1844; and its post town is Delph, under Manchester. Pop., 2, 979. Houses, 645. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £200. Patron, the Vicar of Rochdale.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
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Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Saddleworth
- Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: Manchester
- Rural Deanery: Ashton Under Lyne
- Poor Law Union: Rochdale
- Hundred: Agbrigg
- Province: York