Little Budworth, Cheshire Genealogy

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Guide to Little Budworth, Cheshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Little Budworth, Cheshire
Little Budworth St Peter Cheshire.jpg
Little Budworth St Peter Cheshire
Type England Jurisdictions
Civil Jurisdictions
Hundred Eddisbury
County Cheshire, England Genealogy
Poor Law Union Northwich
Registration District Northwich
Records begin
Parish registers: 1561
Bishop's Transcripts: 1576
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery Middlewich
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
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Parish History[edit | edit source]

BUDWORTH, LITTLE, (St. Peter), is a parish, in the union of Northwich, the first division of the hundred of Eddisbury, S. division of the county of Chester, it is 3¾ miles NE by E from Tarporley. This place is also called Budworth in the Frith, and Little Budworth cum Oulton. The church belonged previously to the Dissolution to St. Mary's nunnery, Chester, and was called a free chapel within the parish of Over.[1]

Little Budworth St Peter's is an Ancient parish in Cheshire.

St Peter's Church, Little Budworth is in the village of Little Budworth, Cheshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester and the deanery of Middlewich. Its benefice is combined with that of St Mary, Whitegate. The church stands on the highest point in the village and its tower dominates views of the area.

Little Budworth is a civil parish and village between Winsford and Chester, in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.

The village is about 3 miles from Winsford and Tarporley, 14 miles to Chester City Center, 8 miles to Northwich and 17 miles to Warrington with nearby rail connection along the Mid-Cheshire Line set in rolling English countryside and forest.

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]

Little Budworth St Peter parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials have been indexed by the following groups:

FS PR's =FamilySearch Parish Registers
FS BT's =FamilySearch Bishops Transcript
Little Budworth St Peter Parish (1561) Online Records

Baptisms
Marriages
Burials

 Indexes Images Indexes Images Indexes Images
FS PR's 1562-1909
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 1562-1934
   NONE
 1562-1875
   NONE
FS BT'S 1576-1897   NONE
 1576-1852
   NONE
 1576-1897
   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 Little Budworth, 1561-1966 Cheshire Record Office call reference: P36/1/1-5, P36/7.

An index for Cheshire parish registers is available online at FamilySearch Historical  Records

Parish Transcript Content FHL Film
Baptisms, marriages, burials, 1561-1595 BRITISH 2105799 Item 11
Baptisms, 1595-1747, 1813-1921. Marriages, 1595-1837. Marriage banns, 1845-1945. Burials, 1595-1875. BRITISH 2105800 Items 1 - 11
Marriage licences, 1814, 1902, 1942-1966. BRITISH 2105800 Item 13

Bishop's transcripts for Little Budworth, 1576-1897 Early entries in Latin.
Cheshire Record Office reference: EDB/128.

An index for Cheshire, Church of England, Bishop’s Transcripts (Diocese of Chester) is available online at FamilySearch Historical Records

Bishop’s Transcripts Content FHL Film
Baptism, marriages, burials, 1576, 1586, 1604, 1607-1608, 1613-1615, 1629, 1631, 1633-1637, 1639, 1658-1661, 1664-1666, 1670-1676, 1679-1685, 1688-1697, 1699-1732, 1734-1823, 1825-1827, 1831-1837, 1846-1852. Baptism, burials, 1824, 1828-1830, 1838-1840, 1853-1897. BRITISH
1656843 Item 2
Non-Conformist Churches[edit | edit source]

Little Budworth, Methodist Chapel (Wesleyan). Built in 1888.

Non-Conformist Records:

Cheshire Record Office 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

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]

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]

Little Budworth on GENUKI

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ Lewis, Samuel A. A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848). Date Accessed: 26 March 2013

Bibliography[edit | edit source]

Richards, Raymond (1947), Old Cheshire Churches, London: Batsford, pp. 197–199

Hubbard, Edward (1991). The Work of John Douglas. London: The Victorian Society. p. 139. ISBN 0 901657 16 6.

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