FAMILY HISTORY

Several members of the Royton Local History Society have formed a specific group devoted to researching their family backgrounds.

The group is headed by Philip Ellis who has considerable experience in this interesting and absorbing field.

This page has been compiled to help those wishing to research their family members who have lived in Royton.

    Local studies information is held at Oldham Library.

    The Oldham Evening Chronicle is a good source for lots of other information.
    They have a very comprehensive local organisations links page.

Cemeteries

    · Cemetery Rd, Cemetery
    · St Paul, Church St, Church of England (Graveyard no longer exists apart from 19 specific gravestones laid out in a line on the  southern side of the Church
    · Turf Lane, Society of Friends, Heyside

Census

    Details about the census records, and indexes for Royton.

    · Oldham Road, Baptist
    · St Mark, Perth St, Church of England, Heyside
    · All Saints, Rochdale Lane, Church of England
    · St Anne, St Anne's Ave, Longsight, Church of England
    · St Paul, Church St, Church of England
    · Hebron St, Congregational, Heyside
    · Middleton Rd, Congregational
    · Independent Methodist
    · St John, Market Street, Methodist
    · Trinity, Radcliffe St, Methodist
    · Bethesda, Rochdale Rd, Particular Baptist
    · Oldham Road, Primitive Methodist
    · Zion, Fir Lane, Primitive Methodist
    · St Aidan and St Oswald, Vaughan Street, Roman Catholic
    · Spring Garden St, Salvation Army
    · Turf Lane, Society of Friends, Heyside
    · Shaw Rd, United Methodist Free Church, Higginshaw
    · Edge Lane Road formerly Lawson St, Wesleyan Methodist, Higginshaw
    · Manchester Rd, Wesleyan Methodist, Luzley Brook
    · St John, Chapel St, Wesleyan Methodist

        N.B. Some of the Churches listed above no longer exist.

Registration Records

    The Register Office covering the Royton area is Oldham.

Probate Records

For probate purposes prior to 1858, Royton was in the Archdeaconry of Chester, in the Diocese of Chester. The original Lancashire wills for the Archdeaconry of Chester are held at the Lancashire Record Office.

Phil has also compiled a list of useful web sites that he has found very useful.
If you know of any others please let Phil know and he will add them to the list.

www.ancestry.co.uk
A subscription only site containing almost everything under one roof plus links to other sites. Available free at any library in the Oldham group as ancestrylibrary.com

www.freebmd.com
A list of birth, marriage & death certificates transcribed onto the web from Government originals by a group of volunteers.
It is incomplete and may contain errors but a very useful start for b.m.d. from 1837 to 2000 +

www.pro.gov.uk
A similar homepage link to the government website. It's enormous !!!! It also links to the 1901 census.
but    www.census.pro.gov.uk    will take you straight there

To search for misc. websites relating to your family name, use any search engine you have available and enter either:    name      or     "name family history"

www.ecwood.co.uk
A personal web site with a local flavour

Some other web sites - no comments as I have not used them for some time.

www.bhi.co.uk
www.search2.rootsweb.com
www.boards.ancestry.co uk
www.ukans.edu/heritage/research
www.rootsweb.com
www.familysearch.org
www.genuk.org.uk
www.gedlink.com
www.lancashire-fhhs.org.uk
www.onlineparishclerks.org.uk
www.bbcwhodoyouthinkyouare.com
www.thegenealogist.co.uk
 

If you know of any other sites that might be useful or would like any help please email Phil at
royton.famhist@ntlworld.com