Bury, Lancashire Poor Law Union

History
For information see The Workhouse, Bury, Lancashire

The Union comprised the following parishes:


 * Ainsworth, Lancashire
 * Ashworth, Lancashire
 * Bircle, Lancashire
 * Bury St Mary, Lancashire
 * Bury St John, Lancashire
 * Bury St Paul, Lancashire
 * Edenfield, Lancashire
 * Elton, Lancashire
 * Heywood, Lancashire
 * Heywood St James, Lancashire
 * Holcombe, Lancashire
 * Radcliffe, Lancashire
 * Radcliffe St Thomas, Lancashire
 * Ramsbottom, Lancashire
 * Shuttleworth, Lancashire
 * Tottington, Lancashire
 * Walmersley, Lancashire

Records
Overseer and vestry accounts, Bury, Lancashire, England, 1692-1832 Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1948

Bury Museum + Archives, Moss Street, Bury BL9 0DR. Very limited holdings include: Guardians' minutes (1840-1930)

Manchester Archive Available at the Greater Manchester County Record Office

Admission and discharge registers (1864-7, 1871-81, 1885-6, 1897-1900, 1906-7); Creed Registers (1869-1934); Registers of burials at workhouse cemetery (1858-1946).

Websites
for images, maps and history