Elton, Lancashire Genealogy

Guide to Elton, Lancashire ancestry, family history, and genealogy. Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Chapelry History
ELTON, an ecclesiastical district and a township,in the parish, union, and parliamentary borough, of Bury, hundred of Salford, S. division of Lancashire. The church, All Saints', was erected in 1843, on a site presented by the Earl of Derby; it is in the Norman style, with a square tower. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.

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

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

Elton 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 Elton 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.

Genealogy
Hopkinson, Rae Y: Hopkinson, Hutchinson, Greenhalgh of Tottington and Elton. History and family tree of Thomas Greenhalgh, Edward Hopkinson and Phebe Greenhalgh dating from 1712-1971, 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

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
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=53013 British History Online Elton