Tottington Higher End, Lancashire Genealogy

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Guide to Tottington Higher End, Lancashire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: chapelry register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.



Chapelry History
Tottington was created a chapel of ease in 1802 from Bury St Mary, Lancashire Ancient Parish. The mother church for Tottington, Lancashire dates from this period.

Other places in the parish include: Foe Bank, Tottington Lower End, Tottington Higher End, and Foebank.

The name derives from the old English for "Tota's people's village". Tottington was originally part of the larger Royal Manor of Tottington which stretched from Musbury and Cowpe with Lench in the north to Affetside in the west and Walshaw in the south.

Tottington is a town in Bury, within the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, in Greater Manchester, England.

The more modern ecclesiastical parish of St Philip, Chatterton Road,Stubbins was created from a former school room in 1927.

TOTTINGTON HIGHER-END, a township, in the parish of Bury, union of Haslingden, hundred of Salford, S. division of Lancashire, 5 miles (N.) from Bury, on the road to Haslingden and Burnley.

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

Online index of Lancashire Births, Marriages and Deaths Lancashire BMD

Lancashire Online Parish Clerks
An extremely useful resource for research in Lancashire Parishes http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/

Online Records

 * 1538 - 1910 at FamilySearch — index
 * 1603 - 1910 at FamilySearch — index and images

Poor Law Unions
Haslingden, Lancashire Poor Law Union

Probate Records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Lancashire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Taxation

 * 1541 - 1541 Subsidy of Tottyngton (p. 144)
 * 1622 - 1622 Subsidy of Tottington (p. 148)

Maps and Gazetteers
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