Baddiley St Michael Cheshire Family History Guide
Baddiley St Michael is an Ancient Parish in the county of Cheshire.
Parish church: St. Michael
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1579
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1596
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist
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Adjacent Parishes
Baddiley Parish Registers
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Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records
These records include images of Church of England parish registers of baptism, marriage, and burial records.
Baddiley St Michael, Cheshire Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1579-1812
Baddiley St. Michael, Cheshire Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1990
Baddiley St Michael, Cheshire Church of England Bishop’s Transcripts – Baptisms – 1596-1905
Marriage and Banns Records
These records include images of Church of England parish registers of marriages and banns records.
Baddiley St Michael, Cheshire Church of England Marriages and Banns 1754-1980
Death and Burial Records
These records include images of Church of England parish registers of deaths and burial records.
Baddiley St Michael, Cheshire Church of England Bishop’s Transcripts – Burials, 1596-1905
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
BADDILEY, a parish in Nantwich district, Cheshire; on the Ellesmere canal and the Shropshire Union railway, 3 miles SW by W of Nantwich r. station. Post town, Nantwich. Acres, 1,962. Real property, £3,258. Pop., 272. Houses, 49. The property is not much divided. The manor formerly belonged to the Mainwaring family; and their seat, Baddiley Hall, a very ancient structure of timber and plaster, was first converted into a farmhouse, and then recently pulled down.
The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chester. Value, £219. Patron, J. Tollemache, Esq. The church dates from times when public buildings wore generally constructed of timber; consisted entirely of oak till 1811, but was then encased with brick; is still in pretty good condition; and contains two fine marble monuments of the Mainwarings. Charities, £43.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
BADDILEY (St. Michael), a parish, in the union and hundred of Nantwich, S. division of the county of Chester, 3 miles (W. S. W.) from Nantwich; containing 275 inhabitants. The manor belonged, as early as the time of William I., to the family of Praers; and in the reign of Edward III. passed, by marriage with the coheiresses of William Praers, to the Bromleys, Hondfords, and Mainwarings, in which last family it ultimately became solely vested.
The parish comprises 2300 acres of land, the soil of which is clay and sand: the Ellesmere canal passes through. Baddiley Hall, once the noble residence of the Mainwarings, is now a farmhouse. The living is a discharged rectory, valued in the king’s books at £24. 3. 6., and in the gift of John Tollemache, Esq.: the tithes have been commuted for £195; the glebe consists of nine acres, and a house built in 1844. The church is of oak, and of great antiquity; the upright timbers, being much decayed, were cased with brick in 1811, but the roof and ceiling are still in fine preservation. About £50, obtained from 39 acres of land, are yearly distributed among the poor.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Historical Maps
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Alan Godfrey Old Ordnance Survey Maps
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Administration
- County: Cheshire
- Civil Registration District: Nantwich
- Probate Court: Pre-1541 – Court of the Bishop of Lichfield (Episcopal Consistory), Post-1540 – Court of the Bishop of Chester (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Pre-1541 – Lichfield and Coventry, Post-1540 – Chester
- Rural Deanery: Nantwich
- Poor Law Union: Nantwich
- Hundred: Nantwich
- Province: York
Sources
The following sources have been used to compile this article.
- F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991)
- FamilySearch Research Wiki – Cheshire, England Genealogy
- Cheshire Archives and Local Studies Catalogue
- Ancestry.co.uk
County Maps
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