Stockton Heath, Cheshire Genealogy

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

'''Part of this parish is in Lancashire. See also Stockton Heath, Lancashire.'''

Parish History
STOCKTON-HEATH, is a village in Great Budworth parish, and a chapelry partly also in Runcorn parish, Cheshire. The village stands on the Bridgewater canal, it is 1 mile South of Warrington railway station; has a post-office under Warrington. The chapelry was constituted in 1838. The church was built in 1826. There is a Methodist chapel.

Stockton Heath is an Ecclesiastical Parish partly in the county of Cheshire and partly in Lancashire; created in 1838 from Great Budworth, Cheshire Ancient Parish and Runcorn, Cheshire Ancient Parish (both Cheshire) and Warrington  Ancient Parish (Lancashire). Stockton Heath is a civil parish and suburban area of the Borough of Warrington in Cheshire, England. It is located to the north of the Bridgewater Canal and to the south of the Manchester Ship Canal, which divides Stockton Heath from Latchford and north Warrington. The civil parish is part of Warrington Unitary authority and it has a Warrington postcode but remains part of the ceremonial county of Cheshire and emergncy services are provided by Cheshire.

Stockton Heath, St. Thomas was founded in 1838 as the parish church for Acton Grange, Appleton (part), Walton Inferior and Walton Superior.

For more information see: Stockport.

Church records
Stockton Heath parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

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

 * Baptist
 * Independent Methodist

Non-Conformist records:

Here is a list of church records on microfilm at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City.

Church records for Stockton-Heath Wesleyan Methodist church, 1888-1962: Microfilm of original records in the Cheshire Record Office, Chester, England.

Providence Chapel (Stockton-Heath, Cheshire : Independent) Microfilm of original records at the Public Record Office, London.

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
Runcorn (1897–1974) Warrington (post 1974)

Poor Law Unions
Runcorn Poor Law Union, Cheshire

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
Stockton Heath on GENUKI