Tilstone Fearnall, Cheshire Genealogy

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Guide to Tilstone Fearnall, Cheshire family history and genealogy: parish registers (baptism, christening, marriage, and burial records), civil registration (birth, marriage, and death records), census records, history, wills, cemetery, online transcriptions and indexes, an interactive map and websites.



Parish History
TILSTON-FEARNALL, is a township and a chapelry in Bunbury parish, Cheshire. The township lies 1 mile N E of Beeston railway station, and 2 SSE of Tarporley. The chapelry was constituted in 1837. The post town is, Tarporley. The church was built in 1836.

Tilstone Fearnall St Jude is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Cheshire, created in 1837 from chapelry in Bunbury, Cheshire Ancient Parish.

Tilstone Fearnall was a township in Bunbury Parish, Eddisbury Hundred, which became a civil parish in 1866 and Included the hamlets of Stages Platt and Tilstone Bank.

Tilstone Fearnall is a civil parish in the Borough of Cheshire West and Chester and ceremonial county of Cheshire in England.

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

Nantwich (1837–92) Chester (1892–1937) West Cheshire (1937–74) Chester and Ellesmere Port (1974–98) Cheshire West (post 1998) The post 2009 reorganisation of civil registration can be found online at Cheshire BMD

Church records
Tilstone Fearnall St Jude 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.

Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, non conformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

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