Dodleston, Cheshire Family History Guide
Dodleston is an Ancient Parish partly in Flintshire.
Other places in the parish include: Moorend Farm, Balderton, Gorstella, and Lower Kinnerton.
Alternative names: Diddleston, Doddleston
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
Parish registers: 1570
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1584
Nonconformists include: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Table of Contents
Adjacent Parishes
- Eccleston
- Chester St Mary on the Hill
- Pulford
- Bretton, Flintshire
- Saltney, Flintshire
- Burton, Flintshire
- Broughton, Flintshire
- Dodleston, Flintshire
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
DODDLESTON, a village and a township in Great Boughton district, Cheshire; and a parish partly also in Flint.
The village stands near the boundary with Wales, and near the Chester and Shrewsbury railway, 2½ miles SW of Saltney r. station, and 4½ SSW of Chester. The township includes also the hamlet of Gorstella. Acres, 1,677. Real property, £2,646. Pop., 304. Houses, 54.
The parish contains likewise the townships of Lower Kinnerton and Higher Kinnerton; and its post town is Pulford, under Wrexham. Acres, 4,013. Real property, £6,191. Pop., 814. Houses, 158. The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to the Marquis of Westminster. A seat of the Egertons here was the head-quarters of Brereton, at the siege of Chester in 1645-6. The living is a rectory in the dio. of Chester. Value, £593. Patrons, the Dean and Chaper of Chester. The church was rebuilt, on an enlarged scale, in 1869.
There are a Primitive Methodist chapel, a free school, and charities £10.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
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Wales, Flintshire, Doddleston
England, Cheshire, Doddleston – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Record of the inscriptions in the graveyard of Saint Mary’s Parish Church, Dodleston : arranged alphabetically, chronologically and by plot number with a scale plan of the churchyard
Author: Dodleston Local History Group
England, Cheshire, Doddleston – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Doddleston, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office
England, Cheshire, Doddleston – Church records ( 6 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Doddleston, 1584-1872
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Doddleston (Cheshire); Cheshire Record Office
Churchwardens accounts and vestry minutes, 1789-1869
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Doddleston (Cheshire)
Dodleston, Cheshire, England, [list of marriages] 1570-1837 : parish church marriages
Author: Hayes, Dafydd; Masters, Ray
Parish of Saint Mary, Dodleston, parish registers from 1570 to 1970
Author: Dodleston Local History Group; Church of England. Parish Church of Doddleston (Cheshire)
Parish registers for Doddleston, 1570-1983
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Doddleston (Cheshire); Church of England. All Saints Church (Higher Kinnerton, Flint); Cheshire Record Office
Parish registers for the township of Higher Kinnerton, 1868-1966
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Doddleston (Cheshire); Cheshire Record Office
England, Cheshire, Doddleston – Taxation ( 2 )
Land tax assessments for Broxton Hundred, 1784-1787, 1789, 1815-1819
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Cheshire); Cheshire Record Office
Land tax assessments for Doddleston, 1784-1832
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: Great Boughton
- 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: Chester
- Poor Law Union: Great Boughton
- Hundred: Broxton
- Province: York