Catalogue description ST. MATTHEW, STRETFORD

L89/1/1-29 INCUMBENT

L89/1/1. Baptisms, 1599 - 1781, Marriages, 1599 - 1769

Burials, 1599 - 1781

L89/1/2. Baptisms and Burials, 1775 - 1812

L89/1/3. Baptism Registers, 1813 - 1932

L89/1/4. Marriage Registers, 1835 - 1943

L89/1/5. Burial Registers, 1813 - 1960

L89/1/6. Banns Books, 1901 - 1980

L89/1/7. Confirmation Registers, 1928 - 1952

L89/1/8. Registers of Services, 1872 - 1956

L89/1/9. Service Sheet, 1882

L89/1/10. Consecration Documents, 1842 - 1906

L89/1/11. Licence for Services, 1924

L89/1/12. Parish Boundaries, c 1870 - 1958

L89/1/13. Sentence of Consecration of Additional Churchyard, 1830

L89/1/14. Grave Registers and Inscriptions, n.d.

[L89/1/15. Interment of Ashes Register - not deposited]

[L89/1/16. Remains in Garden of Rest - not deposited]

[L89/1/17. Report on Excavation of Churchyard, 1967 - not deposited]

L89/1/18. Schedules of Glebe, 1841 - 1881

L89/1/19. Glebe Insurance, 1889

L89/1/20. Chapel House Farm, Culcheth, 1873 - 1955

L89/1/21. Flixton Glebe, 1883 - 1912

L89/1/22. Parsonage, 1868 - 1942

L89/1/23. Chantry Lands, 1546 - 1561

L89/1/24. Income, 1841 - 1950

L89/1/25. Tables of Fees, 1862 - 1877

L89/1/26. Tithe Commutation Award, 1838 - 1845

L89/1/27. Certificate of Redemption of Tithe, 1910

L89/1/28. Dilapidations, 1952

L89/1/29. History of St. Matthew's, 1972

L89/2/1-17 CHURCHWARDENS AND VESTRY

L89/2/1. Papers relating to Clergy, 1907

L89/2/2. Miscellaneous Accounts, 1694-1776

L89/2/3. Accounts, 1768-1958, Vestry Minutes, c 1819-1925

L89/2/4. Annual Statements of Accounts, 1914-1925

L89/2/5. Bills, 1884

L89/2/6-7. Pew Rents, 1851-1935

[L89/2/8. Plan of Pews, 1947 - not deposited]

L89/2/9. Collections, 1860-1885

L89/2/10. Free Will Offerings, 1933-1972

[L89/2/11. Bequests - not deposited].

L89/2/12. Poll on Whether to Levy a Rate to Repair Old Chapel, 1840

L89/2/13. Faculties, 1888-1974

[L89/2/14. War Memorial Chapel, 1922 - not deposited]

L89/2/15. Accounts for Decorating Church, 1924

L89/2/16. Insurance, 1879-1941

L89/2/17. Inventories, 1898-1917

L89/3/1-5 PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL

[L89/3/1. Minutes - not deposited]

[L89/3/2. Electoral Rolls - not deposited]

L89/3/3. Bazaar Committee Minutes, 1923-1933

L89/3/4. Bazaar Committee Statements of Accounts, 1924-1932

L89/3/5. Bazaar Committee, Correspondence, 1923

L89/4/1-8 SOCIETIES

L89/4/1. Stretford Provident Society List of Members, 1873-1881

[L89/4/2. Choir Register - not deposited]

L89/4/3. Mothers' Union minutes, 1928-1949

L89/4/4. Stretford Church Hall and Institute Ltd. Directors' Minutes, 1950-1946

L89/4/5- 8 Stretford Church Hall and Institute Ltd. Accounts, 1908-1961

L89/5/1-3 CHARITIES

L89/5/1. Emm Bate's Charity Trust Papers, 1842-1861

L89/5/2. Emm Bate's Charity Bread Accounts, 1861-1904

L89/5/3. Emm Bate's Charity Sunday School Accounts, 1860-1903

L89/6/1 Sunday School

Teachers' Minutes, 1888-1898

L89/7/1-15 DAY SCHOOL

L89/7/1. Deeds, 1845-1865

L89/7/2. Managers' Minutes, 1888-1898

L89/7/3. Accounts for Building of School, 1845

L89/7/4. Statistics of Attendance and Fees Received, 1884-1903

L89/7/5. Staff Salaries Receipt Book, 1898-1903

L89/7/6. Bank Pass Book, 1886-1895

L89/7/7. Volumes of Bills, 1893-1903

L89/7/8. Miscellaneous Bill, 1899

L89/7/9. Report of Committee of Management and Statement of Accounts, 1878

L89/7/10. Managers' Out - Letter Book, 1886-1890

L89/7/11. Letters to Managers from Teachers, 1890

L89/7/12. Letters from Barton upon Irwell Union School Attendance Committee, 1893

L89/7/13. Plan, 1891

L89/7/14. Insurance, 1845-1891

L89/7/15. History, 1969

L89/8-9 CIVIL RECORDS

L89/8/1 CONSTABLES

Justices Orders to Constables, 1754-1774

L89/9/1-16 OVERSEERS OF THE POOR

L89/9/1. Payments, 1754-1759

L89/9/2. Account Books, 1779-1831

L89/9/3. Statistics of Income and Expenditure, 1783-1785

L89/9/4. Justices Orders to Overseers for Payment of Poor Relief, 1721-1808

L89/9/5. Agreement of Overseers to Pay Maintenance, 1771

L89/9/6. Overseers' Correspondence about Payment of Poor Relief, 1756-1785

L89/9/7. Settlement Certificates, 1697-1763

L89/9/8. Settlement Examinations, 1748-1812

L89/9/9. Bonds of Indemnity Against Becoming Chargeable to Stretford, 1762-1772

L89/9/10. Removal Orders (from Stretford), 1717-1812

L89/9/11. Removal Orders (to Stretford), 1722-1791

L89/9/12. Confirmations of Removal Orders, 1704-1754

L89/9/13. Orders for Maintenance of Bastard Children, 1702-1811

L89/9/14. Bastardy Bonds, 1715-1794

L89/9/15. Miscellaneous Orders Relating to Bastardy, 1716-1756

L89/9/16. Apprenticeship Indentures, 1717-1812

L89/10/1-2 MISCELLANEOUS

L89/10/1. Mortgage, 1705

L89/10/2. Copy of Will of Wm. Massye, 1610

The Archives Department also has deeds of land in Aston by Budworth belonging to Stretford chantry, 1525-1573 (L1/33/172/1-3); a rental of property and tithes belonging to the College of Christ in Manchester, including Stretford, 23 Nov. 1581 (MISC/125); Archdeacon John Rushton's Visitation Returns, 16 June 1845, include engravings of the old chapel, ante 1842, and the new church, 1844, list of fees, 1843, ground and gallery plans (42 x 32 cms.), c 1842 (MS f 942.72 R121 vol 46).

Church of England, St Matthew's Parish, Stretford, Greater Manchester

The following records were deposited in Manchester Central library as Diocesan Record Office in July 1983 by Rev. H. R. Entwistle.

Stretford was an ancient chapelry within the parish of Manchester. A chapel existed at least as early as 1413 and a chantry was founded about a hundred years later by Sir Edmund de Trafford.

A new chapel was built in 1718, enlarged in 1821 and taken down in 1844. This was replaced by the present church, whose foundation stone was laid on 30 September 1841 on a site given by Sir Thomas Joseph de Trafford. It was consecrated on 10 October 1842.

St. Matthew's was assigned as its District Stretford and part of Moss Side townships, from the parish of Manchester, by Order in Council, 14 September 1838 (London Gazette, 29 March 1839.) This was reduced to most of Stretford by Order in Council 8 June 1854, (London Gazette, 16 June).

An Order in Council, 31 July 1858 (London Gazette, 13 August) assigned some of the District to St. Thomas's, Old Trafford. However, a judgement of the Court of Chancery, 16 January 1867 declared that a conveyance of the site and fabric of St. Thomas's to the Church Building Commissioners was invalid and the property was re-conveyed to Henshaws Blind Asylum and Manchester Schools for the Deaf and Dumb, and the District reverted to St. Matthew"s until 1875, when by Order in Council, 13 May (London Gazette, 14 May) it was assigned to St. Gabriel's Hulme, only to become the District for St. Hilda's, Old Trafford in 1899. (Order in Council 7 October, London Gazette, 17 October).

The following new parishes further reduced the size of the original parish:

St. Cyprian, Ordsall, by Order in Council 15 May 1900 (London Gazette, 22 May).

St. Cuthbert, Old Trafford, by Order in Council, 11 June 1902 (London Gazette, 13 June).

St. John, Old Trafford, by Order in Council, 11 August 1902 (London Gazette, 12 August).

All Saints, Stretford, by Order in Council, 29 January 1904 (London Gazette, 2 February).

St. Peter, Stretford, by Order in Council, 10 May 1905 (London Gazette, 12 May).

Other alterations to the boundaries of the parish occurred in 1930 when by Order in Council 27 November (London Gazette, 2 December), some was assigned to St Peter's, Stretford, St. John's, Old Trafford, St. Hilda's Old Trafford, and St. Clement's Chorlton cum Hardy, in 1955 when part was transferred to All Saints and some received from All Saints, by Order in Council, 6 May (London Gazette 10 May), and in 1958 when some was transferred to St. Hilda's, by Order in Council 11 September, (London Gazette, 12 September).

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