Records of Beswick Township
1860-1876
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Highway Accounts 1860-1876; Rate Books 1859-1896
Place:/Beswick/Manchester/Lancashire/England
Title:
Records of Beswick Township
Date of work:
1860-1876
Reference number:
GB127.M10/3
Level of description:
Fonds
Includes:
Custodial history:
This small township in the Parish of Manchester became part of the Borough of Manchester in 1838, being joined with Ardwick to form a municipal ward in the new borough.
For Poor Law purposes the township of Beswick in 1858 was added to the Prestwich Poor Law Union, which had been constituted by order of the Poor Law Board in 1850. In 1896 Beswick was among the townships consolidated to form the Township of North Manchester for Poor Law purposes.
Source:
The records listed here were transferred from the Rates Department and the Committee Clerk's Department in the Manchester Town Hall in 1958.
Access restrictions:
UnrestrictedRate books for Manchester are now available from 1706 to 1901 on Findmypast.co.uk.
Original rate books from 1902 to 1956/1957 are held in offsite storage and we require two weeks notice to retrieve them.
Use restrictions:
Unrestricted
Topics:
Record types:
COLLECTION
Language:
English
Record number:
7187001
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