Wettenhall, Cheshire Genealogy

Guide to Wettenhall, Cheshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
WETTENHALL, is a township-chapelry in Over parish, Cheshire; 2½ miles NNE of Calveley railway station, and 5 E by S of Tarporley. It has a post-office under Middlewich. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.

Wettenhall St David is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Cheshire, created in 1720 from chapelry in Over, Cheshire Ancient Parish. An ancient chapelry in Over parish, rebuilt in 1870.

English: Wettenhall is a village (at SJ 624 614) and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. The village lies 3½ miles to the south west of Winsford and 6 miles to the north west of Crewe. The parish also includes the settlements of Chapel Green and Woodside. Nearby villages include Alpraham, Calveley, Cholmondeston, Church Minshull, Little Budworth and Tarporley.

Church records
Wettenhall St David parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials have been indexed by the following groups:

To find the names of the neighbouring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Here is a list of Wettenhall parish registers on microfilm at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City.

Parish registers: Cheshire Record Office no.: P220/1.

Bishop's transcripts: Cheshire Record Office: EDB 216

Non-Conformists records

 * 1671-1900 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)

Wesleyan Methodist records at Cheshire Record Office call no.: EMS 248/1.

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:


 * FreeBMD
 * Cheshire BMD

Registration Districts

 * Nantwich (1837–1937)
 * Crewe (1937–74)
 * Congleton and Crewe (1974–88)
 * South Cheshire (1988–98)
 * Cheshire Central (post 1998) The post 2009 reorganization of civil registration can be found online at Cheshire BMD

Poor Law Unions
Nantwich Poor Law Union

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.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Wettenhall on GENUKI