Baguley, Cheshire Family History Guide

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Baguley is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Cheshire, created in 1848 from Bowdon Ancient Parish. Baguley was ecclesiastically refounded in 1868 from Timperley Ecclesiastical Parish and Sale Ecclesiastical Parish. In 1937 the ecclesiastical boundary of Baguley parish was altered with the creation of Lawton Moor Ecclesiastical Parish and also in 1960 with the creation of Wythenshawe Ecclesiastical Parish.

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1867
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1868

Nonconformists include: Particular Baptist

Adjacent Parishes

Baguley St John the Divine 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.

Baguley St John the Divine, Cheshire Church of England Bishop’s Transcripts – Baptisms – 1868-1886

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BAGULEY, a chapelry, with a r. station, in Bowdon parish, Cheshire; 3¼ miles ENE of Altrincham. Acres, 1,769. Real property, £5,028. Pop., 611. Houses, 118. Market gardening is largely carried on. The chapelry was constituted in 1868. Living, a p. curacy.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

BAGULEY, a township, in the parish of Bowdon, union of Altrincham, hundred of Bucklow, N. division of the county of Chester, 6¼ miles (W. by S.) from Stockport; containing 505 inhabitants. This was at an early period the property of the Baguleys, whose heiress brought it to the Leghs; the latter sold it, and in 1722 it belonged to Viscount Allen, of whom it was purchased by the Jacksons, of Rostherne.

The township comprises 1769 acres, of which 114 are common or waste; the soil is clay, loam, and moss. The tithes have been commuted for £153 payable to the Bishop of Chester, £34 to the vicar of Bowden, and £27 to the rector of Northen.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Historical Maps

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: Altrincham
  • 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: Frodsham
  • Poor Law Union: Altrincham
  • Hundred: Bucklow
  • 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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