Nether Bebington, Cheshire Family History Guide
Nether Bebington or Bebington is an Ancient Parish in the county of Cheshire. Bebington is the usual civil name and Nether Bebington the ecclesiastical name.
Other places in the parish include: Poolton cum Spittle, Poulton cum Spittle, Poulton cum Spital, Storeton, Lower Bebington, and Lower Bebbington.
Alternative names: Bebbington, Bebington, Nether Bebington
Ecclesiastical Parishes created from Nether Bebington include:
- Rock Ferry Ecclesiastical Parish created in 1844 also known as Higher Bebington St Peter
- Tranmere Ecclesiastical Parish created in 1842
- New Ferry Ecclesiastical Parish created in 1888
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1558
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1597
Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
Nether Bebington Parish Registers
The Parish Registers of Bebington 1558 to 1701 are available free to read online, with options to download the pdf for personal research
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.
Bebington St Andrew, Cheshire Church of England Baptisms Marriages and Burials, 1558-1812
Bebington St. Andrew, Cheshire Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1935
Bebington St Andrew, Cheshire Church of England Bishop’s Transcripts – Baptisms – 1801-1905
Marriage and Banns Records
These records include images of Church of England parish registers of marriages and banns records.
Bebington St Andrew, Cheshire Church of England Marriages and Banns 1754-1941
Death and Burial Records
These records include images of Church of England parish registers of deaths and burial records.
Bebington St Andrew, Cheshire Church of England Burials 1813-1970
Bebington St Andrew, Cheshire Church of England Bishop’s Transcripts – Burials, 1801-1905
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
BEBINGTON, two townships and a parish in Wirrall district, Cheshire. The townships are styled Higher and Lower; they lie on the river Mersey, and on the Birkenhead and Chester railway, 2½ and 3½ miles S by E of Birkenhead; they have a station, of the name of Bebington, on the railway, and a post office of the same name, under Birkenhead; and they have had great recent increase. of houses and inhabitants from their situation on the Mersey, in immediate communication with Liverpool.
Acres of Higher Bebington, 1,084; of which 185 are water. Real property, £14,790. Pop., 2,086. Houses, 336. Acres of Lower Bebington, 1,542; of which 490 are water. Real property, £10,035. Pop., 2,485. Houses, 465. The parish includes also the townships of Tranmere, Storeton, and Poulton-cum-Spittle. Acres, 6,437; of which 1,060 are water. Real property, £66,922. Pop. in 1841, 5,008; in 1861, 15,105. Houses, 2,549. The property is much subdivided. Excellent building stone, with notable geological peculiarities, is extensively quarried.
The living is a rectory, with St. Mark’s chapelry, in the diocese of Chester. Value, £670. Patron, the Rev. G. R. Feilden. The parish church is partly Norman, partly mixed English; and St. Mark’s was built in 1866. The p. curacy of Christchurch is a separate benefice, in the patronage of the Rev. G. Troughton; and its church was built in 1859. The vicarages of Rock Ferry and Tranmere also are separate benefices. There are four dissenting chapels, two national schools, a workhouse, and charities £53.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Historical Maps
Alan Godfrey Old Ordnance Survey Maps
The full range of Cheshire maps produced by Alan Godfrey are available in the Cheshire Maps section of the Books & Maps area. There you can search by principal villages and parishes, by key features for town and city plans, and sort the maps by type and scale. Coverage is taken from the places listed in Alan Godfrey’s own map descriptions, although smaller parishes may not be explicitly named. View all the Cheshire & District Alan Godfrey Maps.
Administration
- County: Cheshire
- Civil Registration District: Wirral
- 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: Wirral
- Poor Law Union: Wirral
- Hundred: Wirral
- 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
