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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Lancashire => England => Lancashire Lookup Requests => Topic started by: Eastman on Tuesday 19 February 13 19:41 GMT (UK)
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I'm trying to understand why one of my ancestors was Christened at St Saviours, Chorlton-upon-Medlock in 1849 when at the time his parents were living in Union Street, Rusholme, perhaps in the parish of the Holy Trinity Platt Lane.
Was St Saviour's once a popular church?
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Hi
Holy Trinity would be a new church, only built in the 1840s. St Saviours was built in 1836.
Heather
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You could and still can baptize a child at whatever church/chapel you want to. so perhaps they favoured St. Saviours against the newer Holy Trinity. There was only around a mile and a half to two miles between the churches. Rusholme and Chorlton upon Medlock were adjacent parishes.
Mo
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Hi Mo,
I didn't know that, I was stuck in the mindset that Christenings usually followed marriages in the same church!
There were three more children after the one mentioned too and I just can't find their Christenings, it makes me wonder if the family gave up on religion after 1849, or else the C of E
Eastman
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Hi
if you put the names on here, we can try to find them for you.
Heather
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In case you haven't come across it, FamilySearch has images of the baptism registers for St Saviour 1836-1887:
http://www.rootschat.com/links/0sz7/