Byley, Cheshire Genealogy
Guide to Byley, Cheshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Byley, Cheshire | |
|---|---|
 St John's Church, Byley Cheshire | |
| Type | Ecclesiastical Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Northwich |
| County | Cheshire |
| Poor Law Union | Northwich |
| Registration District | Northwich |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1848 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1855 | |
| 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]
BYLEY, a township in Middlewich parish, and a chapelry in Middlewich, Devenham, and Sandbach parishes, Cheshire--each of which also see. The township bears the name of Byley-cum-Yatehouse; and lies near the Trunk canal, 2 miles N of Middlewich, and 3½ NE of Winsford railway station. The chapelry bears the name of Byley-with-Lees, or St. John Byley; and was constituted in 1847. Post Town, Middlewich.[1]
Byley St John is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Cheshire, created in 1848 from Middlewich Ancient Parish. Other places in the parish include: St John Byley and Byley with Lees.
Byley (or Byley cum Yatehouse) was a township in Middlewich Parish, Northwich Hundred, which became a civil parish in 1866.
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]
Byley St John the Evangelist parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials have been indexed by the following groups:
| BIVRI = British Isles Vital Records Index (Ancestry) - (£)[2] | |||||
| FS PR's =FamilySearch Parish Registers |
| Byley St John the Evangelist (1848) Parish Online Records | ||||||
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| BIVRI | 1874-1906 | 1864-1906 | ||||
| FS PR's | 1874-1906 |
NONE |
1864-1934 |
NONE |
1849-1898 |
NONE |
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.
Here is a list of Byley parish registers on microfilm at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City.
Parish registers, Cheshire Record Office no.: P100/1-3.
| Parish registers for Byley-with-Lees, 1848-1972 | Film |
| Baptisms, 1848-1906. Banns, 1864-1942. Burials, 1849-1898. | 1655851 Items 3 - 6 |
| Marriages, 1864-1972. | 2262739 Item 6 |
Bishop's transcripts, Cheshire Record Office: EDB 42
| Bishop's transcripts for Byley-with-Lees, 1855-1903 | Film |
| Baptisms, burials, 1857-1858, baptisms, 1860-1861, 1859-1860, burials, 1859-1860, baptisms, burials, 1880-1885, baptisms, 1886-1887, burials, 1886-1887, baptisms, 1888-1891, burials, 1889-1891, baptisms, 1892-1896, burials, 1892-1896, baptisms, 1897-1900, 1855, baptisms, burials, 1856, burials, 1897-1900, 1901, 1903, baptisms, 1901-1903. |
1647366 Item 6 |
| Another filming, 1990. |
1656840 Item 6 |
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]
- Northwich (1837–1974)
- Vale Royal (1974–98)
- Cheshire Central (1998–2009)
- Cheshire West (post 2009)
Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]
Northwich Poor Law Union, Cheshire
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]
Byley on GENUKI
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72). Date accessed: 8 February 2013.
- ↑ 'British Isles Vital Records Index - 2nd Ed. Breakdown of Records', Genoot, accessed 14 October 2013.
