Broadbottom, Cheshire Genealogy
Guide to Broadbottom, Cheshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Broadbottom, Cheshire | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ecclesiastical Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Macclesfield |
| County | Cheshire |
| Poor Law Union | Ashton under Lyne |
| Registration District | Ashton under Lyne |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1889 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Macclesfield |
| Diocese | Pre-1541 - Lichfield and Coventry; Post-1540 - Chester |
| Province | York |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Pre-1541 - Court of the Bishop of Lichfield (Episcopal Consistory) Post-1540 - Court of the Bishop of Cheshire (Episcopal Consistory) |
| Location of Archive | |
| Cheshire Record Office | |
History
BROADBOTTOM, a suburb of Mottram, in Mottram parish, Cheshire; 3 miles W of Glossop. It has Mottram r. station and a post office under Manchester.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Broadbottom, in Tameside and Cheshire | Map and description, [http://visionofbritain.org.uk/place/26279 [1]
Resources
Census records
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a FamilySearch Center or at the FamilySearch Library.
Church records
Broadbottom parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| Broadbottom Online Parish Records | ||||||
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| FS PRs | 1538-2000 | 1538-2000 | 1538-2000 | |||
| FS BTs | 1598-1900 | 1598-1900 | 1598-1900 | |||
| FS | 1538-1975 | 1538-1973 | 1538-1991 | |||
| FMP Diocese PRs | 1538-1911 | 1538-1910 | 1538-1911 | |||
| FMP Diocese BTs | 1576-1906 | 1576-1906 | 1576-1906 | |||
| BOYD | 1538-1850 | |||||
| IGI | ||||||
| FS Catalog PRs | ||||||
| FS Catalog BTs | ||||||
To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.
Records are also available at the Cheshire Archives and Local Studies.
Non-Conformist Churches
Not Known
Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from 1 July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. Here are two excellent Internet sites with birth, marriage and death indexes available:
Poor Law
Not Known
Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Cheshire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.
see also England Cheshire Probate Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)
Maps and Gazetteers
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites
Broadbottom on GENUKI