Bunbury, Cheshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
BUNBURY, is a township, a parish, and a subdistrict in the district of Nantwich, Cheshire. The township lies on the Chester canal and the Chester and Crewe railway, near the Calveley station, it is 3½ miles SSE of Tarporley; and it has a post office by the name of Higher Bunbury under Tarporley. The parish contains also the townships of Tiverton, Tilstone-Fearnall, Beeston, Alpraham, Calveley, Wardle, Haughton, Spurstow, Ridley, Peckforton, and Burwardsley. There are seven dissenting chapels.

Bunbury St Boniface Cheshire is an Ancient Parish and includes Alpraham, Beeston, Calveley, Haughton, Wardle, Ridley, Spurstow, Tiverton, and Peckforton. From the eighth century a church has been on the site, initially a wooden Anglo-Saxon church. By 1135 a stone Norman church was present. The church was rebuilt in the decorated style in 1320. In 1385–86 Sir Hugh Calveley endowed it as a collegiate church.

Its features include the Ridley chapel. St Boniface's Church, Bunbury, stands prominently in the village of Bunbury, Cheshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester and the deanery of Malpas. Its benefice is combined with that of St Jude, Tilstone Fearnall, Cheshire.

Church Records
Bunbury St Boniface parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials have been indexed by the following groups:

Parish registers for Bunbury, 1559-1953 Cheshire Record Office reference: P40/1/1-4, 2/1-5, 3/1-6, P40/3296/1-6, P40/5/1-3, P40/6.

An index for Cheshire parish registers is available online at FamilySearch Historical Records. Here is a list of church records on microfilm at the Family History Library(FHL) in Salt Lake City.

Bishop's transcripts for Bunbury and Tilston-Fearnall, 1588-1868 Includes the Chapelry of Tilston-Fearnall, 1839-1868. Cheshire Record Office reference: EDB 38 An index for Cheshire, Church of England, Bishop’s Transcripts (Diocese of Chester) is available online at FamilySearch Historical Records.

Non-Conformist Churches

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)
 * Bunbury, Trinity Methodist Chapel (Wesleyan). Built in 1806, rebuilt in 1868.
 * Bunbury, Methodist Chapel (Primitive). Built in 1876, closed in 1970.

Non-Conformist Records:

Cheshire Record Office Reference EMS 23 Bunbury Primitive Methodist Chapel Registers1931-67, Various records1902-61 Their website is here.

Cheshire Record Office Reference EMS 297 Bunbury, Trinity Chapel Date 1834-1937 Administrative and financial records, records related to the Chapel buildings A chapel was built by the Wesleyan Methodists in 1806. In 1868 a new building was erected and the old one sold. 24 files RelatedMaterial For christenings 1839-1881 see EMC 16 4 2 (Tarporley circuit). Their website is here.

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

 * Nantwich (1837–1937)
 * Crewe (1937–74)
 * Congleton and Crewe (1974–88)
 * South Cheshire (1988–98)
 * Cheshire Central (post 1998) The post 2009 reorganisation of civil registration can be found online at Cheshire BMD

Poor Law Unions

 * Nantwich Poor Law Union

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
Bunbury on GENUKI