Tottington Higher End, Lancashire Genealogy

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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 Bury parish, Lancashire; on the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway, 3 miles S of Haslingden. It contains the r. stations of Stubbins and Erwood-Bridge, the village of Edenfield, and several hamlets. Acres, 3,686. Real property, £13,330; of which £422 are in quarries, and £24 in mines. Pop. in 1851, 2,958; in 1861, 3,726. Houses, 699. There are a large factory, print-works, a paper-mill, and a Primitive Methodist chapel. From: John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72)

Civil Registration
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Lancashire Online Parish Clerks
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Church records
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Census records
1841 FHL BRITISH Film 306924 1851 p. 320-415 FHL BRITISH Film 87270 1861 FHL BRITISH Film 543072 1871 FHL BRITISH Film 846726 1881 FHL BRITISH Film 1341990 1891 RG 12/3352 (3 fiches) FHL BRITISH Fiche 6098462 http://www.1881pubs.com/ for details of public houses in the 1881 census

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.

Maps and Gazetteers
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Web sites
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