Broughton (Higher) St James, Lancashire Genealogy

England Lancashire  Lancashire Parishes

Parish History
Broughton (Higher) St James Chapelry was built by the year 1879, as a district chapelry, lying within the ancient parish of Manchester Our Lady, St George and St Denys (near Salford).

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 nearly 15 million Lancashire Births, Marriages and Deaths is at Lancashire BMD.

Church Records
Online Records

Broughton (Higher) St James Chapelry has online transcriptions available for accessing and searching, as well does its 'mother' or ancient parish to which it is attached--Manchester (Cathedral) Our Lady, St George and St Denys.

These online transcriptions exist for the baptism, marriage and burial registers to this chapelry as well as for the Cathedral are displayed in the links to the online data content located at the web sites indicated; note the ranges of years:

To view a full list of all the chapelries and district chapels comprising the ancient parish of Manchester City (Cathedral), and to view all of the links to their respective baptisms, marriages and burials online, be sure to visit the MANCHESTER (CATHEDRAL) OUR LADY, ST GEORGE &amp; ST DENYS page.

Original Records

Original parish registers are housed at the Manchester Central Library.

Census records
http://www.1881pubs.com/ for details of public houses in the 1881 census

Poor Law Unions
Chorley Poor Law Union, Lancashire

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.

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