Cholmondeley Chapel, Cheshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
CHOLMONDELEY, a township, in the parish of Malpas, union of Nantwich, Higher division of the hundred of Broxton, S. division of the county of Chester, 7½ miles W from Nantwich.

Church Records
Cholmondeley chapel registers of christenings, marriages and burials have online indexes by the following groups:

Cholmondeley Chapel is a private chapel in Cholmondeley Park, associated with Malpas: St. Oswald.

Here is a list of Cholmondeley Chapel registers on microfilm at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. Bishop's transcripts for Cholmondeley, 1601-1868 Cheshire Record Office no.: EDB 62.

Non-Conformist Churches
Not Known part of Malpas.
 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images

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 (1998-2007)
 * Cheshire (2007-09)
 * Cheshire East (2009+)

Poor Law Unions
Nantwich

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