Manchester Non-Conformist Records Added To Ancestry

Ancestry has added over 400,000 non-conformist records from Manchester this week.

The Manchester Non-Conformist Collection offers an insight into the lives of thousands of Mancunians who turned their back on the Church of England to practise their own beliefs.

Going as far back as 1758, the collection covers baptisms, marriages and burials for several non-conformist congregations.

Those covered include Methodists, Quakers, Presbyterians, Wesleyan, URC, Congregationalists, Baptists, Unitarians and Jews.

Produced in partnership with several local archives the new databases are fully searchable and also offer scanned images of the original records.

You can search each individual record set on Ancestry via the following links:

Manchester, England, Non-Conformist Births and Baptisms, 1758-1912

Manchester, England, Non-Conformist Marriages, 1758-1937

Manchester, England, Non-Conformist Deaths and Burials, 1758-1987

If you have ancestors who lived in Manchester yet do not appear in the Anglican parish records then this new record release is well worth a search!