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Township of Didsbury Records

1847-1911
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Rate books 1847-1910; overseers' receipt and payment books 1849-1911; balance sheets of the overseers' receipts and payments 1886-1911; collectors' monthly statements 1897-1911.
Related Material:Other parochial records of Didsbury have survived and are now in the library, the Vestry Meeting Minute Books of St James Church 1796-1850 (GB127.M22) and the journal, ledgers and day books of William and Thomas Wood, Parish Clerks, innkeepers and grocers 1786-1838 (GB127.M62). The library also has a photographic copy of the tithe plan and schedule for Didsbury, dated 1840. The parish registers of St James Church, Didsbury have been printed from 1561-1757 (Lancashire Parish Register Society Volumes 8 and 9), and are available on microfilm at the library from 1757-1911.
Place:/Didsbury/Manchester/Lancashire/England
/Manchester/Lancashire/England
Title:
Township of Didsbury Records
Date of work:
1847-1911
Reference number:
GB127.M10/12
Level of description:
Fonds
Custodial history:
Didsbury in the Parish of Manchester, had its own parochial chapel from the fourteenth century, but did not become a separate parish til 1839. The district included different territory at different times but for many centuries included Didsbury, Withington, Burnage, and Heaton Norris. In the nineteenth century portions were split off to become separate parishes. From 1837 the township of Didsbury formed part of the Chorlton on Medlock Union of Poor Law Guardians, and from 1876 it lay in the area of the Withington Local Board, later Urban District Council. (See GB127.M10.24). It was incorporated with the City of' Manchester in 1904 and was in the Township of South Manchester for Poor Law purposes from 1910 to 1930.
Source:
These records 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
Record types:
COLLECTION
Language:
English
Record number:
7187186
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