Broughton, Lancashire Genealogy

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Chapelry History
Broughton was created a chapelry in 1774 and from taken from and lying within the boundaries of Preston St John Ancient Parish. Other places in the parish include: Dorton

The Church of St Johns has a tower dated 1533, the nave was rebuilt in 1826 and further refurbishment in 1906.

Broughton is a village and civil parish in the City of Preston, Lancashire, England, about 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Preston city centre. The parish is included in Preston Rural North ward of Preston city council, and the Preston Rural division of Lancashire County council.

"BROUGHTON,a chapelry, in the parish and union of Preston, hundred of Amounderness, N. division of the county of Lancaster; comprising the townships of Broughton, Barton, and Haighton; and containing 1320 inhabitants, of whom 695 are in the township of Broughton, 3¼ miles north by west of Preston. At Fernyhalgh is a Roman Catholic chapel, erected in 1795.

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 Lancashire Births, Marriages and Deaths Lancashire BMD

Lancashire Online Parish Clerks

An extremely useful resource for research in Lancashire Parishes http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/

Online Records
 Church of England 

Broughton chapelry's registers of christenings, marriages and burials, along with those of the ancient parish of Preston 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 Broughton and comprising the whole ancient parish of Preston to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the PRESTON PARISH page.

Poor Law Unions
Preston 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.

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain