I was able to get baptisms from St Anne's Catholic Church, Ancoats dated in 1857 after one of my forebears left St Patrick's Catholic church, Livesey church. From the latter I received both marriage and baptismal entries 1843 and 1846. There are or were nuns who were archivists. They were extremely obliging but I always gave a donation for the time and troble spent in answering queries
Gatacre