Byley, Cheshire Family History Guide

Byley is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Cheshire, created in 1848 from Middlewich Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: St John Byley and Byley with Lees.

Alternative names: Biley cum Yatehouses, Byley cum Yatehouse, Byeley with Yatehouse

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1848
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1855

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BYLEY, a township in Middlewich parish, and a chapelry in Middlewich, Devenham, and Sandbach parishes, Cheshire.

The township bears the name of Byleycum-Yatehouse; and lies near the Trunk canal, 2 miles N of Middlewich, and 3½ NE of Winsford r. station. Acres, 1,030. Real property, £1,724. Pop., 124. Houses, 21.

The chapelry bears the name of Byley-with-Lees, or St. John Byley; and was constituted in 1847. Post Town, Middlewich. Pop., 460. Houses, 90.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chester. Value, £100. Patron, the Vicar of Middlewich.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Records

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England, Cheshire, Byley-cum-Leese
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England, Cheshire, Byley – Cemeteries ( 1 )
St. John the Evangelist, Byley, nr. Middlewich, monumental inscriptions
Author: Chadwick, Peter

England, Cheshire, Byley – Church records ( 2 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Byley-with-Lees, 1855-1903
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Byley-with-Lees (Cheshire); Cheshire Record Office

Parish registers for Byley-with-Lees, 1848-1972
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Byley-with-Lees (Cheshire); Cheshire Record Office

England, Cheshire, Byley – Manors – Court records ( 1 )
Manorial records, 1670-1817
Author: Manor of Byley-cum-Yatehouses. Court (Cheshire)

England, Cheshire, Byley – Taxation ( 2 )
Land tax assessments for Byley-cum-Yatehouse, 1781-1831
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Cheshire); Cheshire Record Office

Land tax assessments for Northwich hundred, 1781-1785, 1815-1819
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Cheshire); Cheshire Record Office

Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

Administration

  • County: Cheshire
  • Civil Registration District: Northwich
  • 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: Middlewich
  • Poor Law Union: Northwich
  • Hundred: Northwich
  • Province: York