Records and Registers

Are you trying to trace an ancestor? Trying to conduct research into your family's history? Or just interested in genealogy?

This web page may be able to help you.

Note that most of our records and registers relate to the parish - a specific geographical area within Oldham. Click here for a map of the parish

Our policy is to hold baptism and marriage records since 1950 on site.

Note that some of these registers have now been digitized. Click here to search them at familysearch.org.

Held in St. Paul's Church:

Entries from the following registers are held in St. Paul's Church.

Baptism Registers	1950 to present
Marriage Registers	1950 to present
Confirmation Registers	1967 to present

Held in Manchester Central Library:

From the church's consecration on 26 May 1880, varied information is held in Manchester City Council Archives and Local History.

Baptism Registers	1877-1950
Marriage Registers	1880-1949
Confirmation Registers	1904-1906 1943-1967
Preachers' Books & Registers of Services	1880-1996
Correspondence and papers regarding the formation of the parish and application for a school	1879-1882
Parish magazines	1960-1975
Orders of service	1958-2014
History of St Paul's Church Oldham	1980
Churchwardens Accounts	1909-1933
Specification of the different works required in the erection of a Church	1878
Building Fund Subscriptions	1877-1886
Agreement for sale and purchase of organ	1886
Vestry Minutes	1900-1918
Parochial Church Council Minutes	1948-1977
Minutes of Thursday Group	1988-2006
School Minutes	1880-1949
Sunday School Accounts	1922-1925

(This is cut and pasted from the listing at Greater Manchester Lives.)

If the person you are researching was a prominent member of the church, then it is possible that they are mentioned in reports of events, minutes of meetings etc.

More recent records are likely to be found in the Church itself.

War Memorial

The church has a War Memorial . Follow the link to find photographs of the names on it.

Contact

Please Contact the church to make an appointment or enquiry.

Please ensure that you have read the above information before making an enquiry.

If your enquiry relates to a more recent date, you will need to give the approximate date of a wedding or baptism.

Fees

The fee for a copy of a Baptism Certificate is £14 (2020) and for a Marriage Certificate £11 (2020).
These fees are set nationally by the Church of England.