Tonge cum Alkrington, Lancashire Genealogy

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

Chapelry History
Tonge cum Alkrington St Michael was created a district chapelry in 1842 from, and lying within the boundaries of Prestwich St Mary Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Alkrington.

TONGE, a township, in the parish of Prestwichcum-Oldham, union of Oldham, hundred of Salford,S. division of Lancashire, 5½ miles (N. N. E.) from Manchester.

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

Online Records

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

 Church of England 

Tonge cum Alkrington chapelry's registers of christenings, marriages and burials, along with those of the ancient parish of Prestwich to which it is attached, have been mostly transcribed and are displayed online at the following websites and ranges of years:

For a full list of all those chapels surrounding Tonge cum Alkrington and comprising the whole ancient parish of Prestwich to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the PRESTWICH PARISH page.

Parish registers for St. Michael's Church, Tonge-cum-Alkrington, 1839-1947 Microfilm copy of originals formerly held at the Manchester Central Library, Manchester, England. Tonge is a township and a chapelry in Prestwich parish. The chapelry includes Alkrington township. Manchester Central Library call nos.: L148/1/1/1-7, L148/2/1-4, L148/1/3/1-3.

Non Conformist Records

 * 1647-1996 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)

Poor Law Unions
Oldham 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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
References


 * British History Online Alkrington
 * British History Online Tonge