Broadbottom, Cheshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
BROADBOTTOM, a suburb of Mottram, in Mottram parish, Cheshire; 3 miles W of Glossop. It has Mottram r. station and a post office under Manchester.

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Broadbottom, in Tameside and Cheshire | Map and description, [http://visionofbritain.org.uk/place/26279

Church records
Broadbottom St Mary Parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials have been indexed by the following groups:

Here is a list of parish registers on microfilm at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City.

Parish registers for St. Mary, Broadbottom, Cheshire, 1889-1995 Cheshire Record Office call no.: P25/5345/1.

Non-Conformist Churches

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images
 * 1671-1900 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)

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

Poor Law
Not Known

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
Broadbottom on GENUKI