Chesham, Buckinghamshire Genealogy

England   Buckinghamshire   Buckinghamshire Parishes

Parish History
'CHESHAM in Domesday Book 'Cestreham,' is a large parish and market town, distant by road from London 28 miles, Uxbridge 14 north-west, Amersham 3 north, Aylesbury 13 south-east and Buckingham 30, and has a terminal station controlled by the Great Central and Metropolitan Joint Committee; it is the head of a petty sessional division and county court district, in the Mid division of the county, hundred of Burnham, union of Amersham, rural deanery of Amersham, archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. Chesham derives its name from the river Chess, a feeder of the river Colne, which flows through the town from two spring heads, one in the park of William Lowndes esq and the other in Higham Mead.'

From From Kelly's Directory of Buckinghamshire 1911, in Historical Directories

CHESHAM (St. Mary), a market-town and parish, in the union of Amersham, hundred of Burnham, county of Buckingham, 3 miles (N.) from Amersham, and 29 (N. W. by W.) from London; comprising the hamlets of Asheridge, Ashley-Green, Bellingdon, Botley, Charteridge, Hundridge, Latimer, and Waterside; and containing 5593 inhabitants, of whom 2425 are in the town. There are four places of worship for dissenters, two of which are for Baptists.

Civil Registration
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Church records
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Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Buckinghamshire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

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Web sites
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