Tottington, Lancashire Genealogy

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

Chapelry History
TOTTINGTON LOWER-END, a township with a chapel, in the parish and union of Bury, hundred of Salford, S. division of Lancashire, 3 miles northwest by west from Bury. A part of the township has been formed into an ecclesiastical district, of which the boundary on the north is Holcombe Brook, on the south the township of Elton, and on the west Bradshaw and Quarlton. The church, dedicated to St. Ann, was built in 1799. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists.—See Holcombe and Ramsbottom.

Tottington was created a chapel of ease in 1802 from, and lying within the boundaries of Bury St Mary, Lancashire Ancient parish. Other places in the parish include: Foe Bank, Tottington Lower End, Tottington Higher End, and Foebank.

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

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.

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 Records
 Church of England 

Tottington chapelry's registers of christenings, marriages and burials, along with those of the ancient parish of Bury St. Mary to which it is attached, have been mostly transcribed and are displayed online at the following web sites and ranges of years:

For a full list of all those chapels surrounding Tottington and comprising the whole ancient parish of Bury St. Mary to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the BURY ST MARY PARISH page.

Parish registers for St. Anne's Church, Tottington, 1799-1998 Microfilm copy of originals formerly held at the Manchester Central Library, Manchester, England. Tottington is a chapelry in Bury parish. Manchester Archives Central Library call nos.: L105/1/1, L105/2/1-5, L105/DRO2, L105/1/4/1-3, DRO3, L105/DRO4.

Tottington St Anne parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Genealogy
Todd, Andrew. A Lancashire Family 22: Coop of Booth - Fire, Feud and Fatality at a Tottington Farm. A history, OS map and part of the Greenhalgh note, re the feud, and Family tree of Joshua Coop and Elizabeth surname unknown, from dates 1777 to 1881, also with surnames, Cowpe, Taylor, Penshaw, Lord, Greenhalgh, Haworth and Barlow. The Booth Hall farm is still there today, Between Tottington and Walshaw near Bury, Lancashire. One part of the family did emigrate to USA. Article in The Lancashire Family History and Heraldry Soc. Magazine vol.10, no. 2, pages 20-31. FHL Ref 942.72 B2r

Hopkinson, Rae Y. Hopkinson, Hutchinson, Greenhalgh of Tottington and Elton. History and family tree of Thomas Greenhalgh, Edward Hopkinson and Phebe Greenhalgh with the following surnames, Roninson, Hamer, Browne, Rothwell, Holland Bowken, Pilkington, Appleton, Reed, Leigh, Booth, Roscow, Rudman, Fenton, Massey, Walker, Nelson, Scholes, Hannam, Hunt, Hutchinson and Holden. Article in the Lancashire Family History and Heraldry Soc. Magazine. Vol. 10. no. 4. pages 17-20

Poor Law Unions
Bury Poor Law Union, Lancashire 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 - (p. 144)
 * 1622 - (p. 148)

Maps and Gazetteers
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53015 British History Online Tottington