Great Budworth, Cheshire Genealogy
Guide to Great Budworth, Cheshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
Great Budworth, Cheshire | |
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![]() Great Budworth - Church and stocks Cheshire | |
Type | England Jurisdictions |
Civil Jurisdictions | |
Hundred | Bucklow; Eddisbury; Northwich |
County | Cheshire, England Genealogy |
Poor Law Union | Runcorn |
Registration District | Altrincham; Northwich; Runcorn |
Records begin | |
Parish registers: 1558; Separate registers exist for Castle Northwich beginning 1849 | |
Bishop's Transcripts: 1605 | |
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
Rural Deanery | Frodsham |
Diocese | Pre-1541 - Lichfield and Coventry; Post-1540 - Chester |
Province | York |
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]
BUDWORTH (Great), is a township in Runcorn district, and a parish in Runcorn, Northwich, and Altrincham districts, Cheshire. The township lies on the Grand Trunk Canal, near the River Weaver, and near the Northwich, Knutsford, and Altrincham railway, it is 2½ miles N of Northwich; and has a post office under Northwich. The parish contains also the townships of Seven Oaks, Antrobus, Crowley, Whitley-Superior, Whitley-Inferior, Bartington, Stretton, Appleton, Dutton, Aston-by-Budworth, Peover Inferior, Tabley-Inferior, Plumley, Pickmere,Little-Leigh, Barnton, Hartford, Winnington, Comberbach, Marbury, Marston, Wincham, Northwich, Castle-Northwich, Lostock Gralam, Nether-Peover, Allostock, Hulse, Birches, Anderton, and Lach Dennis, and the chapelry of Witton-cum-Twambrooks. The chapelries of Antrobus, Barnton, Hartford, Little Leigh, Lostock, Lower Peover, Stretton, Tabley, Lower Whitley, Wilderspool, Witton, and Northwich, are separate benefices.[1]
Great Budworth, St. Mary and All Saints (C of E). A large ancient parish, originally serving the townships of Allostock, Anderton, Antrobus, Appleton, Aston by Budworth, Barnton, Bartington, Birches, Castle Northwich, Cogshall, Comberbach, Crowley, Dutton (part), Great Budworth, Hartford (part), Hulse, Lach Dennis, Little Leigh, Lostock Gralam, Marbury (near Northwich), Marston, Nether Peover, Northwich, Peover Inferior, Pickmere, Plumley, Rudheath (part), Seven Oaks, Stretton (near Runcorn), Tabley Inferior, Whitley Inferior, Whitley Superior, Wincham, Winnington and Witton cum Twambrooks.
Lower Peover, St. Oswald (C of E) formed an ancient chapelry in Great Budworth parish.
Resources[edit | edit source]
Census records[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census. 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]
Great Budworth St. Mary and All Saints parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials have been indexed by the following groups:
BIVRI = British Isles Vital Records Index (Ancestry) - (£)[2] | |||||
CPR = Cheshire Parish Register Project - free[3] | |||||
FS PR's =FamilySearch Parish Registers | |||||
FS BT's = FamilySearch Bishops Transcripts |
Great Budworth St. Mary and All Saints Parish (1558) Online Records | ||||||
Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
BIVRI | 1605-1900 | 1866-1906 | ||||
CPR | 1559-1871 | 1559-1871 | 1558-1871 | |||
FS PR's | 1559-1909 |
NONE |
1559-1934 |
NONE |
1558-1892 |
NONE |
FS BT'S | 1605-1900 | NONE |
1612-1837 |
NONE |
1605-1900 |
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.
Parish registers for Great Budworth exist, 1558-1956. Some Latin in early registers.
Call numbers for parish registers in the Cheshire Record Office are: P41/1/1-4, P41/2/1-4, P41/3315/1, P41/3997/1, P41/3997/4-7, P41/3/1-15, P41/4/1-7, P41/5/1-4. Film copies in the Family History Library (FHL) are listed in the following table.
Parish registers Content | FHL Film |
Baptisms, marriages, burials, 1558-1734. | 2262979 |
Baptisms, 1734-1923 (fire damage to registers, 1734-1812). Marriages, 1734-1754 (fire damage). | 2262980 |
Marriages, July 1841-1884, 1893-1912. | 2262982 |
Marriages, 1884-1893, 1912-1956. Banns of marriages, 1754-June 1840. | 2298975 |
Banns of marriages, May 1840-1950. Burials, 1734-1839. | 2298976 |
Burials, 1839-1892. | 2298977 Item 1 - 2 |
Bishop's transcripts for Great Budworth, 1605-1900 Cheshire Record Office call number: EDB 97.
Bishop's transcripts Content | FHL Film |
Baptisms, marriages, burials 1605-1608, 1612-1614, 1617-1622, 1625-1631, 1634, 1638-1642, 1658-1660, 1662, 1665-1671, 1673-1685, 1690-1738, 1741-1833. | 1655825 |
Baptisms, marriages, burials, 1756. | 1894725 Item 1 |
Marriages, burials, 1833. Baptisms, marriages, burials, 1834-1837. Baptisms, burials, 1838, 1840-1844, 1870-1900. | 1655826 Item 1 |
Non-Conformist Churches[edit | edit source]
- 1600s-1910 Cheshire Non-Conformist & Roman Catholic Registers (Baptism) 17th Century-1910 at FindMyPast ($); index and images (dates may vary by parish)
- 1600s-1910 Cheshire Non-Conformist & Roman Catholic Registers (Marriages) 17th Century-1910 at FindMyPast ($); index and images (dates may vary by parish)
- 1600s-1910 Cheshire Non-Conformist & Roman Catholic Registers (Burials) 17th Century-1910 at FindMyPast ($); index and images (dates may vary by parish)
- 1671-1900 England, Cheshire Non-conformist Records, 1671-1900 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)
Great Budworth, Methodist Chapel (Wesleyan). Cheshire Record Office Document Reference EMS 176 LITTLE BUDWORTH CHAPEL Date 1888-1924 Description Trustees' records book The chapel was built by the Wesleyan Methodists in 1888 Extent 1 vol Their website is here.
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]
- Runcorn (1837–1974)
- Vale Royal (1974–98)
- Cheshire Central (1998–2009)
- Cheshire West (post 2009)
Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]
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]
Great Budworth on GENUKI
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72). Date Accessed: 5 March 2013
- ↑ 'British Isles Vital Records Index - 2nd Ed. Breakdown of Records', Genoot, accessed 14 October 2013.
- ↑ 'CPR Project Progress (As on 17 January 2014),' Cheshire Parish Register Project, accessed 1 February 2014.
Bibliography[edit | edit source]
- Clifton-Taylor, Alec (1974), English Parish Churches as Work of Art, London: Batsford, p. 240, ISBN 0 7134 2776 0
- Richards, Raymond (1947), Old Cheshire Churches, London: Batsford, pp. 170–175
- Pevsner, Nikolaus; Edward Hubbard (2003) [1971], The Buildings of England: Cheshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, pp. 227–228, ISBN 0 300 09588 0
- Bilsborough, Norman (1983), The Treasures of Cheshire, Manchester: The North West Civic Trust, p. 141, ISBN 0901347353
- Salter, Mark (1995), The Old Parish Churches of Cheshire, Malvern: Folly Publications, p. 40, ISBN 1871731232