GENUKI: St Matthew Church of England, Stretford, Lancashire genealogy

Cemeteries

The church has/had a graveyard.

Church History

It was founded before 1413.

In early medieval days the de Trafford family built a small chapel for their own tenantry and it is known that a chantry existed there in 1413. In 1718 Stretford Chapel was rebuilt on the site of its predecessor. It was furnished with a barrel-organ to provide music for the services even though it was "deficient of notes"; the instrument was augmented by minstrels playing Basvoyle and Oby (Oboe).

The third Stretford church, St. Matthew's was built on a new and larger site given by Sir Thomas de Trafford in 1841. The church was enlarged in 1863 and the chancel added in 1906.

Church Records

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Transcripts/indexes in progress

1598-1837 are being transcribed for publication by the Lancashire Parish Register Society.
Status: Apr 2007 - Transcription, collation with BTs and indexing has been completed.

Work on transcripts and indexes start off with good intentions, but circumstnaces can arise which mean that the task is larger than first envisaged, or other tasks require the trancribers time. So there is no guarantee that publication will always take place or that initially envisaged target dates will be met.

The work being undertaken is not being done as part of GENUKI, so it will not be available for online research as part of this site. This does not of course preclude it being made available in this way elsewhere. The final publication medium will be determined by the trancriber.

Maps

The church is located at OS grid reference SJ794942. You can see this on maps provided by:

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Old Maps

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Help required

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	We think we have the exact location of the church. If not please select the following link and use the instructions for passing on map locations. That should enable us to determine the exact location. Use the contact link at the end of this page to send us an email, and paste in the URL you have selected. Click here to show map.
	Have the Monumentals Inscriptions on the gravestones been transcribed and published, and by whom?
	Have you any details about the history of the church? Old directories frequently contain such information, and if you can transcribe such information and let us have it, we can add it to this page.
	Who holds the records of baptisms, marriages or burials? Have any transcripts of the registers been published?

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St Matthew, Stretford - Church of England