Bromborough, Cheshire Genealogy

[[Image:St Barnabas Church Bromborough.jpg|thumb|right]]Parish History
Bromborough St Barnabas is an ancient parish, in the Wirral Hundred. The hamlet of Brimstage was part of the parish.

The first church on the site was built in 928 adjacent to a monastery which had been founded in 912, probably by Ethelfleda. This church was demolished in 1828 and replaced on the same site by another church.[ This church was again replaced by the present church]. It was built on a big scale between 1862 and 1864 to serve the residents of new large houses which had recently been built in the town. The architect was Sir George Gilbert Scott.

Pevsner describes it the "large church of the village-gone-prosperous".

Parish Records
Bromborough, St. Barnabas is an ancient parish church, originally serving the townships of Brimstage and Bromborough. Cheshire Record Office reference: P59/1/1-2, P59/2/1-3, P59/3/1-3, P59/5313/3-4, P59/3044/1, P59/4/1-2.

Bishop's transcripts for Bromborough, 1600-1900 Early text in Latin. Cheshire Record Office reference: EDB 35

An index for Cheshire, Church of England, Bishop's Transcripts (Diocese of Chester) is available online in Record Search

Bennett collection, ca.1252-1955 Authors Bennett, J. H. E. (John Henry Elliot), 1873- (Main Author) Broster, John (Added Author) Lawson, P. H (Added Author) Richards, Raymond (Added Author) Notes Microfilm made of manuscript collection (ca.25,000 leaves) at the Chester Record Office, Chester, Cheshire County, England. Includes bibliographic references. Includes indexes (of localities, of surnames, and special subjects). SEE: detailed "table of contents" for the Bennett collection on leaves 1-41 (after the first unnumbered [10] leaves) of the first item on the beginning reel of the filming of this collection. SEE ALSO: a paper copy of this detailed "table of contents" carried as a pamphlet in this library entitled: Bennett collection table of contents / [J.H.E. Bennett]. [Salt Lake City : Photocopy made by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1987]. [10], 43 leaves. Photocopy made from microfilm of original typescript (carbon copy) held at the Chester Record Office, Chester, England. The Bennett collection was compiled by John Henry Elliot Bennett (b.1873), son of Charles Bennett and Ellen Rosamond (Whitley) Bennett. John Henry Elliot Bennett was employed by the London and North Western Railway Company, eventually becoming the district superintendant at Chester, England. His avocations included genealogy, civil militia, editorial work in connection with the "Cheshire Sheaf" columns of The Chester Courant (the local newspaper), and intense activities in connection with local archaeological and antiquarian organizations (involving research, speeches, some publications, and many mss. articles, compilations, collections, rubbings, and indexes). In 1924, he married Betty Owen of Bangor, Wales, and continued to live in Chester, England. The Bennett collection consists of the following: I. Genealogy--Bennett and other families in Chester, in Cheshire and Lancaster Counties, and in the rest of England. II. Topography--correspondence, notes, engravings, sketches, newspaper clippings, etc., regarding church grounds (including burial grounds), church accounts (churchwardens, overseers of the poor, etc.), and also archaeological antiquaries in Chester and elsewhere in Cheshire County. III. Monumental Inscriptions--from churches located in Chester. IV. Parish Register transcripts--for two parishes in Cheshire (St. John the Baptist, Bromborough). V. Miscellaneous VI. Cuttings Books--chiefly newspaper clippings. VII. Lists and Abstracts of Deeds. VIII. Chester Inns. "Hist[ory of] Bennett, [v]. 1-4:" (Bennett families &amp; genealogies throughout England); FHL BRITISH Film 375319 "Hist. Bennett 5-9:" (continued: Bennett families &amp; genealogies throughout England; includes Nevitt, Nevitt-Bennett and other families); FHL BRITISH Film 375320 "Hist. Bennett 10:" (loose folders &amp; files containing draft pedigrees &amp; notes on Bennett families throughout England); "Hist. Bennett 11:" (notes, cuttings, photographs, etc., relating to J.H.E.B. and other members of the Bennett family of Williston, Bedstone, Saltneyside and Chester-- continued from no. 3 above); FHL BRITISH Film 375321 Items 1-2 "C[heshire] G[enealogies] Bennett 1:" (general references to the Bennett family extracted from parish registers, monumental inscriptions, Chester Corps. mss., Harleian mss., printed calendars to the public records and various printed sources--with detailed index; 2 accounts of Willaston Hall are included on p. 163-165, 266-269). FHL BRITISH Film 375321 Item 3 "C.G. Allen, Ince &amp; Stringer," "Hists. Porter, Stringer," and "Whittell:" (notes, pedigrees, cuttings, tracings, and correspondence, etc., chiefly for Cheshire and also for Lancashire, London, Australia and elsewhere; includes families of Bulkeley, Cotgreave, Drinkwater, Egerton, Handley, Nash, Prenton, Roberts, Storry, Vizer, Walker, Wilson, etc.); FHL BRITISH Film 375322 "C[heshire] G[enealogies] General 1-3:" (notes, extracts, correspondence, newspaper cuttings, etc., relating to various families, mainly of Cheshire and Lancashire Counties; entries in alphabetical order by surname between A - BEN); FHL BRITISH Film 375323 "C.G. General 4-5:" (continued: notes, extracts, corres- pondence, newspaper cuttings, etc.; alphabetical: BER - FF); FHL BRITISH Film 375324 "C.G. General 6-7:" (continued: notes, extracts, corres- pondence, newspaper cuttings, etc.; alphabetical: FLE - J ); FHL BRITISH Film 375325 "C.G. General 8-10:" (continued: notes, extracts, corres- pondence, newspaper cuttings, etc.; alphabetical: K - R ); FHL BRITISH Film 375326 "C.G. General 11-14:" (continued: notes, extracts, corres- pondence, newspaper cuttings, etc.; alphabetical: S - Z ); FHL BRITISH Film 375327 Items 1-4 "C[heshire] T[opography] General 1:" (St. Oswald's Parish, Chester - notes and original records; includes numbered plan of parish burial grounds with list of tombstone inscriptions, i.e., names and geneal. data for individuals buried there; includes also churchwardens accounts, overseers of the poor accounts, workhouse accounts, etc.); FHL BRITISH Film 375327 Item 5 "C.T. General 2:" (correspondence relating to, and extracts from John Broster's mss. notebook, c1801, related to his published works on Chester and Cheshire County; engravings, sketches, illus- trated articles &amp; newspaper cuttings relating to various places in Cheshire, arranged in alphabetical order); FHL BRITISH Film 375328 Item 1 "C.T. General 3:" (rough index to the Cheshire Sheaf, 1st Series, v. 1-3; index to complete names of v. 1-2, index to complete names of v. 3 loose at end of file; index to places to p. 41 of v. 1); FHL BRITISH Film 375328 Item 2 "C.T. General 4:" (Grey Friars, Chester - notes, newspaper cuttings &amp; correspondence; notes &amp; sketches of tiles discovered at White Friars, Chester). FHL BRITISH Film 375328 Item 3 "Monumental Inscriptions:" (St. John the Baptist, Chester - inscriptions to the churchyard and church, and inscriptions not now to be found, transcribed &amp; collated by J.H.E.B. &amp; Mr. P.H. Lawson, 1910-1912; 3 plans; index); FHL BRITISH Film 375328 Item 4 "Monumental Inscriptions:" (St. Mary-on-the-Hill, Chester, and Christleton, Backford and Shotwick in Cheshire County - inscriptions in the churchyards and churches, and inscrip- tions not now extant, transcribed and collated by J.H.E.B. and Mr. P.H. Lawson, 1910-1912; plans (or maps) for all but Christleton, and indexes for all); FHL BRITISH Film 375329 Item 1 "Monumental Inscriptions:" (St. Michael's, Chester, and Bruera, Eccleston, Dodleston, Plemstall [i.e., Plemonstall], and Pulford in Cheshire County - inscriptions in the church- yards and churches, and inscriptions not now extant, transcribed and collated by J.H.E.B. and Mr. P.H. Lawson, 1910-1916; indexes for all, and plans for all but (1) St. Michael's in Chester and for (2) Bruera); FHL BRITISH Film 375329 Item 2 "Monumental Inscriptions:" (Aldford, Cheshire County; St. Bridget's, Chester; St. Martin's Chester; Llanidan, Anglesey, Wales - inscriptions in the church and on monuments, some now lost, transcribed and collated by J.H.E.B., 1918-1920; no plans and no indexes). FHL BRITISH Film 375329 Item 3 "Parish Register Transcript:" (St. John the Baptist, Chester - transcript of registers of baptisms, 1559-1779, made by J.H.E.B. and Mr. P.H. Lawson; no index); FHL BRITISH Film 375329 Item 4 "Parish Register Transcript:" (St. John the Baptist, Chester - transcript of registers of marriages, 1559-1793, and burials, 1560-1735; made by J.H.E.B. and Mr. P.H. Lawson; no index); FHL BRITISH Film 375330 Item 1 "Bromborough Parish Register:" (an analysis of Bromborough [parish] register, 1600-1800, with copy of Sander's transcript - baptisms, 1666-1700, 1703-1726; marriages, 1680-1686, 1703-1726; burials, 1626-1687, 1703-1731; scattered entries of baptisms and burials, 1747-1782). FHL BRITISH Film 375330 Item 2 "C[hester] Misc. 1:" (extracts from Chester Corps. records - notes on ms. &amp; printed works in the possession of Raymond Richards; 1640 rental of the Manor of Handbridge; 1664 hearth tax returns for Chester; includes lists of Chester freemen, 1784, 1805-1831; roll of Chester journeymen tailors, 1688- 1754; 1799 survey &amp; valuation of lands and houses in parish of Holy Trinity, Chester); FHL BRITISH Film 375330 Item 3 "C. Misc. 2:" (notes on Archdeacons of Chester, and Deans and Canons of St. John's, Chester; newspaper cuttings;, notes and articles on Chester and Chesley's history; seal impressions; notes on two mss. in possession of Raymond Richards; includes extracts from Papal register calendars, 1252-1431, list of electors from the 1733 poll book, etc.); FHL BRITISH Film 375331 Item 1 "C. Misc. 3:" (list of parish register publications; parish register extracts relating to Bennett and other families; lecture notes of J.H.E.B.; correspondence; 1719-1720 calendar of 41 Chester marriage licences; etc.); FHL BRITISH Film 375331 Item 2 "C. Misc. 4:" (list of sources consulted for genealogical and historical research; notes on Chester Corps., Diocesan registry, probate registry, and St. Joseph probate registry records; notes of reference to Chester and Cheshire history in various printed works; includes index to lay subsidy rolls, Chester, 15 Henry VIII - 30 Charles II); FHL BRITISH Film 375331 Item 3 "Cuttings book no. 1:"--missing; "Cuttings book no. 2:" (newspaper clippings, as listed in detailed table of contents; includes transcript of marriage registers, 1558-1812, Frodsham); FHL BRITISH Film 375332 Item 1 "Cuttings book no. 3:" (newspaper clippings, as listed in detailed table of contents; includes note of intended removal of headstones and gravestones, Christ Church, Chester). FHL BRITISH Film 375332 Item 2 "Barnston Deeds:" (abstracts &amp; lists of deeds from Barnston family mss. at Crews Hill, Farndon). "Woodchurch:" (calendar of Royden deeds related to Woodchurch; includes extracts from deeds relating to the Manor of Whitby, ca.1675-1706; &amp; extracts from Ormerod, Lysons, etc., relating to Over Poole; includes extracts from various sources relating to Bennetts of Chester). FHL BRITISH Film 375332 Item 3 "Chester Inns:" (series of files with notes, cuttings, correspondence, offprints of Cheshire Sheaf, etc. relating to Chester inns listed in detailed table of contents). FHL BRITISH Film 375332 Item 4 The registers of baptisms, marriages and burials in the parish of Bromborough in the county of Chester, 1600-1726 Stmnt.Resp. edited by Anne Anderson Also on microfilm. Salt Lake City : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1974. on 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. FHL BRITISH Film 924701 Item 3

The transcript for this parish is available online at Cheshire Parish Register project

Bromborough Pool St Matthew was created out of the parish to serve the needs of Bromborough Pool

Non Conformist Records
Bromborough, Christ the King (Roman Catholic). Built in 1928.

Bromborough, Methodist Chapel (Wesleyan). Built in 1928.