Bromborough St Barnabas Cheshire Family History Guide
Bromborough St Barnabas is an Ancient Parish in the county of Cheshire.
Other places in the parish include: Brimstage.
Alternative names: Bromborow, Bromborrow, Brombro
Bromborough St Barnabas location:
- British National Grid Ref: SJ 34910 82223
- BNG Eastings, Northings: 334910, 382223
- Latitude, Longitude: 53.332894, -2.978874
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1580
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1600
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist
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Adjacent Parishes
Bromborough Parish Registers
Search online registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials including digitised images of original records and registers and indexed transcriptions.
Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records
These records include images of Church of England parish registers of baptism, marriage, and burial records.
Bromborough St Barnabas, Cheshire Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1580-1812
Bromborough St. Barnabas, Cheshire Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1945
Bromborough St Barnabas, Cheshire Church of England Bishop’s Transcripts – Baptisms – 1600-1905
Marriage and Banns Records
These records include images of Church of England parish registers of marriages and banns records.
Bromborough St Barnabas, Cheshire Church of England Marriages and Banns 1754-1941
Death and Burial Records
These records include images of Church of England parish registers of deaths and burial records.
Bromborough St Barnabas, Cheshire Church of England Burials 1813-1998
Bromborough St Barnabas, Cheshire Church of England Bishop’s Transcripts – Burials, 1600-1905
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
BROMBOROUGH, a township and a parish in Wirrall district, Cheshire. The township lies on the Mersey, and on the Birkenhead and Chester railway, 4½ miles S by E of Birkenhead; and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Chester. It had formerly a weekly market; and it adjoins the Eastham ferry on the Mersey. Acres, 2,600; of which 1,080 are water. Real property, £8,210. Pop., 1,094. Houses, 198.
The parish includes also the township of Brimstage. Acres, 3,612. Real property, £9,632. Pop., 1,279. Houses, 229. The manor belongs to S. Mainwaring, Esq. Bromborough Hall is the seat of R. Rankin, Esq. Bromborough Pool, a creek of the Mersey, is occupied by the Liverpool floating gunpowder magazines; and has on its shore the establishment of Price’s Patent Candle Company. A small priory was founded at Bromborough, about 902, by Ethelfleda.
The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chester. Value, £230. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Chester. The church was rebuilt, in the early English style, in 1865, at a cost of £5,000. There are two chapels of ease, a large national school built in 1869 at a cost of £2,000, and charities £5.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Historical Maps
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Alan Godfrey Old Ordnance Survey Maps
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Administration
- County: Cheshire
- Civil Registration District: Wirral
- 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: Wirral
- Poor Law Union: Wirral
- Hundred: Wirral
- 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
