Buglawton, Cheshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
Buglawton is a suburb of Congleton, in the south-east of Cheshire. It was a parish and an urban district (i.e. effectively an independent town) from 1894 until 1936, when it was incorporated in Congleton borough.

The area of the former parish includes the hamlets of Timbersbrook, Key Green, Crossley, and Havannah, and the Cheshire side of The Cloud, a distinctive hill just outside of the boundaries of the Peak District National Park.

Buglawton is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Cheshire, created in 1841 from chapelry in Astbury, Cheshire Ancient Parish. Other places in the parish include: Eaton

Buga is a personal name and hlawton means "a settlement".

BUGLAWTON, is a township-chapelry in Astbury parish, Cheshire; on the river Dane and the North Stafford railway, 2 miles NE of Congleton. The post town is Congleton. The original chapel was built by 1840; church the registers of christenings begin in 1840; burials begin from 1839. There are two Methodist chapels.

Other closely associated chapelries also lying within Astbury ancient parish included the chapelries of Congleton St James, St Peter and St Stephen's, Mossley Holy Trinity, Rode, Smallwood, and Somerford; together with several places of worship for dissenters, in the parish.

Church records
Buglawton parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the Cheshire Archives and Local Studies.

Non Conformist Churches

 * Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
 * Primitive Methodist
 * Wesleyan Methodist

Church records for the Dane-in-Shaw Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Buglawton, Cheshire, 1911-1956 Cheshire Record Office call no.: EMS 72/5.

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

 * Congleton (1837-1936)

Poor Law Unions
Congleton 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
Buglawton on GENUKI