Audlem St James the Great Cheshire Family History Guide

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Audlem St James the Great is an Ancient Parish in the county of Cheshire. In 1869 the ecclesiastical boundary of Audlem was altered with the refounding of Burleydam Ecclesiastical Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Dodcott cum Wilkesley, Tittenley, Newhall, Hankelow, Wilksley, Dodcot cum Wilkesley, Buerton near Nantwich, and Buerton.

Parish church: St James

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1557
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1579

Nonconformists include: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, General Baptist, Primitive Methodist, Wesleyan Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist Association.

Adjacent Parishes

Audlem, 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.

Audlem St James the Great, Cheshire Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1557-1812

Audlem St. James the Great, Cheshire Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1928

Audlem St James the Great, Cheshire Church of England Bishop’s Transcripts – Baptisms, Marriages and Burials – 1579-1830

Audlem St James the Great, Cheshire Church of England Bishop’s Transcripts – Baptisms – 1579-1910

Marriage and Banns Records

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

Audlem St James the Great, Cheshire Church of England Marriages and Banns 1754-1923

Audlem St James the Great, Cheshire Church of England Bishop’s Transcripts – Marriages and Banns – 1579-1877

Death and Burial Records

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

Audlem St James the Great, Cheshire Church of England Burials 1813-1947

Audlem St James the Great, Cheshire Church of England Bishop’s Transcripts – Burials, 1579-1910

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

AUDLEM, a township in Nantwich district, Cheshire, and a parish chiefly in that district, and wholly in that county, but partly also in the district of Market-Drayton. The township lies on the Nantwich and M. Drayton railway, 6 miles S of Nantwich; and has a st. on the railway. a post office under Nantwich, and fairs on 24, 25, 26 July and 28 Nov. Acres, 2,358. Real property, £7,186. Pop., 1,510. Houses, 344.

The parish includes also the townships of Buerton, Hankelow, and Tittenley. Acres, 10,525. Real property, £14,092. Pop., 2,287. Houses, 505. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester. Value, not reported. Patron, Lord Combermere. The church is good. There are five dissenting chapels, an endowed school with £40 a year, and charities £292.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

AUDLEM (St. James), a parish, in the union and hundred of Nantwich, S. division of the county of Chester; comprising the townships of Audlem, Buerton, Hankelow, and Tittenley, part of Dodcot cum Wilkesley, and part of Newhall; and containing about 3000 inhabitants, of whom 1621 are in the township of Audlem, 6½ miles (S.) from Nantwich. The Tralebews, ancestors of the family of Aldelym or Audlem, are said to have possessed the manor from the Conquest; it subsequently passed by marriage and purchase, in moieties or parts, to various owners.

The township of Audlem comprises 2346 acres, the soil of which is clay and sand, The road from Nantwich to Shrewsbury, and the Chester and Birmingham canal, pass through the parish. A grant was obtained in the 24th of Edward I., of a weekly market, and a fair on the eve, day, and morrow of St. James the Apostle, both which, after long disuse, were revived a few years since: the market is on Thursday.

The living is a vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £5. 16. 8., and in the patronage of Viscount Combermere: the tithes for Audlem township have been commuted for £247 and £81. 10., payable respectively to the impropriator and the vicar. There is a place of worship for Particular Baptists.

A free grammar school was endowed about the middle of the seventeenth century, by Mr. Ralph Bolton, with £20 per annum, and a similar sum arising from a bequest by Mr. Thomas Gammull, both of London; £40 were also given for its benefit by the Rev. William Evans. There is likewise a preparatory English school for younger boys and for girls, endowed with a modus of the tithe of hay, and a house and half an acre of land.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Historical Maps

British National Grid Ref: SJ 66006 43654
BNG Eastings, Northings: 366006, 343654
Latitude, Longitude: 52.989137, -2.507848

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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: Nantwich
  • 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: Nantwich
  • Poor Law Union: Nantwich
  • Hundred: Nantwich
  • 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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