Wanted, a Parish map of St Saviours, Chorlton-upon-Medlock

[Eastman]

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?

[heatherjulie]

Hi
Holy Trinity would be a new church, only built in the 1840s.  St Saviours was built in 1836.

Heather

[mosiefish]

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

[Eastman]

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

[heatherjulie]

Hi
if you put the names on here, we can try to find them for you.

Heather

[mshrmh]

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/