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.

Parish History
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.

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.

Church records
Great Budworth St. Mary and All Saints parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials have been indexed by the following groups:

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.

Bishop's transcripts for Great Budworth, 1605-1900 Cheshire Record Office call number: EDB 97.

Non-Conformist Churches

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images
 * 1600s-1910 Cheshire Non-Conformist & Roman Catholic Registers (Baptism) 17th Century-1910 at FindMyPast ($); 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)

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.
 * 1671-1900 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)

Civil Registration
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:


 * FreeBMD
 * Cheshire BMD

Registration Districts

 * Runcorn (1837–1974)
 * Vale Royal (1974–98)
 * Cheshire Central (1998–2009)
 * Cheshire West (post 2009)

Poor Law Unions

 * Runcorn Poor Law Union, Cheshire
 * part Northwich Poor Law Union, Cheshire

Probate records
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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Great Budworth on GENUKI