Timperley, Cheshire Genealogy

England Cheshire  Cheshire Parishes Timperley 

Guide to Timperley, 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.

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

Timperley was built in 1849 as a chapel to Bowdon: St. Mary, becoming a Parish 1852.

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

Bishop's transcripts for Timperley, 1851-1888 Cheshire Record Office no.: EDB 203

Non-Conformist Churches

 * Wessleyan Methodist

Non-Conformists Church Records:

Church records for the Wesleyan Methodist Church, Timperley, 1841-1965 Manchester Archives Central Library call nos.: C18/4.

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 District

 * Altrincham (1837-98)
 * Bucklow (1898-1936)

Poor Law Unions

 * Altrincham (1836-95)
 * Bucklow (1895-1930)

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
See a gazetteer description of Adlington at Vision of Britain.