Manchester Registration District

MANCHESTER REGISTRATION DISTRICT

Registration County : Lancashire (1837–1925 & 1939–74); Greater Manchester (from 1974).
Created : 1.7.1837.
Abolished 1.1.1925 (added to Manchester North registration district).
Re-created : 1.4.1939 (from Manchester North and Manchester South registration districts).
Sub-districts : Ancoats; Blackley; Central; Cheetham; Crumpsall; Deansgate; East Manchester; Failsworth; London Road; Manchester; Manchester Central; Manchester East Central; Manchester Eastern; Manchester North Central; Manchester Northern; Manchester Southern; Manchester West Central; Manchester Western; Market Street; Newton; Prestwich; St. George; West Manchester; Withington.
GRO volumes : XX (1837–51); 8d (1852–1924); 8d (1939–46); 10E (1946–74); 38 (1974–92).
District number : 254 (1841–46); 473 (1847–69); 467 (1870–80); 466 (1881–1924 & 1939–46); 525 (1946–74); 006 (from 1974).

Table 1A: List of Places in Manchester Registration District (1837–1924)

Civil Parish	County	From	To	Comments
Beswick	Lancashire	1837	1874	See Table 2, note (a).
Blackley	Lancashire	1837	1874	See Table 2, note (a).
Bradford	Lancashire	1837	1874	See Table 2, note (a).
Cheetham	Lancashire	1837	1874	See Table 2, note (a).
Crumpsall	Lancashire	1837	1874	See Table 2, note (a).
Failsworth	Lancashire	1837	1874	See Table 2, note (a).
Great Heaton	Lancashire	1837	1874	See Table 2, note (a).
Harpurhey	Lancashire	1837	1874	See Table 2, note (a).
Little Heaton	Lancashire	1837	1874	See Table 2, note (a).
Manchester	Lancashire	1837	1924	See Table 2, note (b).
Moston	Lancashire	1837	1874	See Table 2, note (a).
Newton	Lancashire	1837	1874	See Table 2, note (a).
Prestwich	Lancashire	1837	1874	See Table 2, note (a).

Table 1B: List of Places in Manchester Registration District (1939–74)

Civil Parish	County	From	To	Comments
Manchester	Lancashire	1939	1974	Abolished 1.4.1974 to become an unparished area. See also Table 2, notes (c) and (d).

Table 1C: List of Places in Manchester Registration District (from 1974)

All the areas in Manchester registration district became part of the county of Greater Manchester on 1.4.1974

Civil Parish (*or Unparished Area)	County	From	To	Comments
Manchester*	Greater Manchester	1974		Unparished area which until 1.4.1974 formed the parish of Manchester. See also Table 2, notes (f) to (t).
Ringway	Greater Manchester	1974		See Table 2, notes (e), (g), (h), (q) and (r).

Table 2: Boundary Changes affecting Manchester Registration District

Date of Change	Note	Description of Change	Population transferred
1.10.1874	(a)	Lost the parishes of Beswick, Blackley, Bradford, Cheetham, Crumpsall, Failsworth, Great Heaton, Harpurhey, Little Heaton, Moston, Newton and Prestwich, to create Prestwich registration district.	77968 in 1871
1.1.1925 (abolished)	(b)	Lost the part in the parish of Manchester to Manchester North registration district.	107668 in 1921
1.4.1939 (re-created)	(c)	Gained part of the parish of Manchester from Manchester North registration district.	758953 in 1931
1.4.1939 (re-created)	(d)	Gained the remaining part of the parish of Manchester from Manchester South registration district.	758953 in 1931
1.4.1974	(e)	Gained the parish of Ringway from Bucklow registration district.	218 in 1971
1.4.1981	(f)	Lost part of the Manchester unparished area (which was added to the Stretford unparished area on 1.4.1981) to Trafford registration district.	72 in 1980
1.4.1993	(g)	Lost parts of the Manchester unparished area and parts of the parish of Ringway (which became parts of the Macclesfield unparished area and of the parishes of Ashley and Mobberley on 1.4.1993) to Macclesfield registration district.	1 in 1992
	(h)	Gained parts of the Manchester unparished area and parts of the parish of Ringway (which until 1.4.1993 formed part of the Macclesfield unparished area and parts of the parishes of Ashley and Mobberley) from Macclesfield registration district.	0 in 1992
	(i)	Lost parts of the Manchester unparished area (which became parts of the Oldham unparished area on 1.4.1993) to Oldham registration district.	7 in 1992
	(j)	Gained part of the Manchester unparished area (which until 1.4.1993 formed part of the Oldham unparished area) from Oldham registration district.	5 in 1992
	(k)	Lost part of the Manchester unparished area (which was added to the Salford unparished area on 1.4.1993) to Salford registration district.	n/a
	(l)	Gained part of the Manchester unparished area (which until 1.4.1993 formed part of the Salford unparished area) from Salford registration district.	n/a
	(m)	Lost parts of the Manchester unparished area (which became parts of the Stockport unparished area on 1.4.1993) to Stockport registration district.	n/a
	(n)	Gained parts of the Manchester unparished area (which until 1.4.1993 formed parts of the Stockport unparished area) from Stockport registration district.	n/a
	(o)	Lost parts of the Manchester unparished area (which became parts of the Tameside unparished area on 1.4.1993) to Tameside registration district.	n/a
	(p)	Gained part of the Manchester unparished area (which until 1.4.1993 formed part of the Tameside unparished area) from Tameside registration district.	n/a
	(q)	Lost parts of the Manchester unparished area and part of the parish of Ringway (which became parts of the Trafford unparished area on 1.4.1993) to Trafford registration district.	1240 in 1992
	(r)	Gained parts of the Manchester unparished area and part of the parish of Ringway (which until 1.4.1993 all formed parts of the Trafford unparished area) from Trafford registration district.	n/a
1.4.1994	(s)	Lost parts of the Manchester unparished area (which was added to the Bury unparished area on 1.4.1994) to Bury registration district.	400 in 1993
1.4.1994	(t)	Gained parts of the Manchester unparished area (which until 1.4.1994 formed part of the Bury unparished area) from Bury registration district.	50 in 1993

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