Bruera, Cheshire Genealogy
Guide to Bruera, Cheshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Bruera, Cheshire | |
|---|---|
 St Mary Church Bruera | |
| Type | Ecclesiastical Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Northwich |
| County | Cheshire |
| Poor Law Union | Congleton |
| Registration District | Congleton |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1839 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1893 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Middlewich |
| Diocese | Pre-1541 - Lichfield and Coventry; Post-1540 - Chester |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Pre-1541 - Court of the Bishop of Lichfield (Episcopal Consistory) Post-1540 - Court of the Bishop of Cheshire (Episcopal Consistory) |
| Location of Archive | |
| Cheshire Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
Bruera St Mary is now an ecclesiastical parish on the site of a former ancient chapel to Chester St Oswalds. It was created as a parish in 1868.
The settlement of Bruera is not recorded in the Domesday Book and the first mention of the church is in the Chartulary of St Werburgh's Abbey, Chester dating from around 1150. It was then a chapel in the parish of St Oswald's, Chester.
CHURTON HEATH, or Bruera, a chapelry, in the parish of St. Oswald, Chester, union of Great Boughton, Lower division of the hundred of Broxton, S. division of the county of Chester, 5¼ miles SE by S from Chester. Lewis. [1]
Resources[edit | edit source]
Census Records[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
Church Records[edit | edit source]
Bruera St Mary parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials have been indexed by the following groups:
| Bruera St Mary Parish (1657) Online Records | ||||||
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| BOYD | 1665-1837 | |||||
| FS PR's | 1657-1909 |
NONE |
1665-1934 |
NONE |
1680-1963 |
NONE |
| FS BT'S | 1672-1884 | NONE |
1673-1836 |
NONE |
1668-1840 |
NONE |
| JOIN | 1665-1837 | |||||
| PRTS | 1665-1837 | |||||
To find the names of the neighbouring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes. Parish registers for Bruera, 1657-1949 Bruera is a chapelry in Chester St. Oswald parish.
Cheshire Record Office reference: P24/1-2, P24/3193/1/1-2, P24/3193/2, P24/4881/1, P24/5327
An index for Cheshire Bishop's Transcripts is available online.
Here is a list of church records on microfilm at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City.
| Parish Registers Content | FHL Film |
| Baptisms, burials, marriages, 1657-1833. Baptisms, 1833-1949. Marriages, 1833-1837. | BRITISH 2000035 Items 3 - 8 |
| Burials, 1832-1899. | VAULT BRITISH 2000036 Item 1 |
| Marriages, 1837-1983. | BRITISH 2106998 Item 5 |
Bishop's transcripts for Bruera, 1666-1884 The chapelry of Bruera is located in the parish of St. Oswald Chester.
Cheshire Record Office reference: EDB 36.
An index for Cheshire Bishop's Transcripts is available online.
| Bishop's Transcript Content | FHL Film |
| Baptisms, marriages, burials, 1666, 1668-1677, 1679, 1681-1685, 1689-1692, 1695-1700, 1703-1711, 1714-1723, 1725-1745. 1800 | BRITISH 1655424 Item 3 |
| Baptisms, marriages, burials, 1744-1757, 1759-1782, 1784-1827, 1829-1830, 1832-1834,1836-1837 Baptisms, 1872-1884. Baptisms & burials, 1828-1840. |
BRITISH 1655425 Item 1 |
Non-Conformist Churches[edit | edit source]
- 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images
- 1671-1900 England, Cheshire Non-conformist Records, 1671-1900 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from 1 July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. Here are two excellent Internet sites with birth, marriage and death indexes available:
Registration Districts[edit | edit source]
- Great Boughton (1837–69)
- Chester (1870–1937)
- West Cheshire (1937–74)
- Chester and Ellesmere Port (1974–98)
- Cheshire West (post 1998)
Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]
- Great Boughton (1837–71)
- Tarvin (1871–1930)
Probate Records[edit | edit source]
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Cheshire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.
see also England Cheshire Probate Records - FamilySearch Historical Records
Maps and Gazetteers[edit | edit source]
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites[edit | edit source]
Bruera or Churton Heath on GENUKI
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Samuel A. A Topographical Dictionary of England and Wales 1848. Date accessed: 8 February 2013.
- ↑ Percival Boyd, A List of Parishes in Boyd's Marriage Index (London: Society of Genealogists, 1987).
- ↑ Cheshire Coverage, The Joiner Marriage Index, accessed 16 October 2013.
- ↑ 'Parish Records - Coverage', The Parish Register Transcription Society, accessed 27 September 2013.
Bibliography[edit | edit source]
Richards, Raymond (1947), Old Cheshire Churches, London: Batsford, pp. 70–74
Pevsner, Nikolaus; Edward Hubbard (2003) [1971], The Buildings of England: Cheshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, p. 118, ISBN 0 300 09588 0
Salter, Mark (1995), The Old Parish Churches of Cheshire, Malvern: Folly Publications, p. 25, ISBN 1871731232
