Bromborough, Cheshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
BROMBORROW (St. Barnabas), is a parish, in the union of Wirral, partly in the Lower, but chiefly in the Upper, division of the hundred of Wirral, S. division of the county of Chester, 11 miles NNW from Chester, on the road to Birkenhead; it contains the township of Brimstage. The parish is bounded on the east by the River Mersey.

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.

Church Records
Bromborough St Barnabas 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.

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.

Here is a list of church records on microfilm at the Family History Library (FHL)in Salt Lake City.

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 at Familysearch Historical Records.

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 Churches

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


 * Bromborough, Christ the King (Roman Catholic). Built in 1928.


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

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

 * Wirral (1837-1922)

Poor Law Unions
Wirral 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
Bromborough on GENUKI