Bredbury St Mark Cheshire Family History Guide

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Bredbury St Mark is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Cheshire, created in 1846 from Stockport St Mary Ancient Parish.

Bredbury St Mark location:

  • British National Grid Ref: SJ 93119 91932
  • BNG Eastings, Northings: 393119, 391932
  • Latitude, Longitude: 53.424133, -2.105018

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1847
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1879

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational

Adjacent Parishes

Bredbury 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.

Bredbury St Mark, Cheshire Church of England Baptisms, 1847-1938

Bredbury St Mark, Cheshire Church of England Bishop’s Transcripts – Baptisms – 1879-1892

Marriage and Banns Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers of marriages and banns records.

Bredbury St Mark, Cheshire Church of England Marriages and Banns 1849-1941

Death and Burial Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers of deaths and burial records.

Bredbury St Mark, Cheshire Church of England Burials 1848-1981

Bredbury St Mark, Cheshire Church of England Bishop’s Transcripts – Burials, 1879-1892

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BREDBURY, a township-chapelry in Stockport parish, Cheshire; adjacent to the Peak Forest canal, 2 miles ENE of Stockport r. station. Post Town, Stockport. Acres, 2,521. Real property, £15,075; of which £1,398 are in mines. Pop., 3,408. Houses, 676. The living is a vicarage in the dio. of Chester. Value, £160. Patron, alt. the Crown and the Bishop. The church is good; and there are an Independent chapel, and charities £16.

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

Chester and Central Cheshire 1905 One Inch Sheet 109

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Administration

  • County: Cheshire
  • Civil Registration District: Stockport
  • 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: Macclesfield
  • Poor Law Union: Stockport
  • Hundred: Macclesfield
  • 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

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