Worleston, Cheshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
WORLESTON, a township, in the parish of Acton, union and hundred of Nantwich, S. division of the county of Chester, 1 3/4 mile N from Nantwich.

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

Worleston was a township in Acton ancient parish,and became a civil parish in 1866

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

Parish registers for Worleston, Cheshire, 1873-1997 Cheshire Record Office call nos.: P321/6564/1-2.

Bishop's transcripts for Worleston, 1873-1882 Cheshire Record Office: EDB 229

Non-Conformist Churches

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)
 * 1671-1900 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)


 * Worleston, Methodist Chapel (Free). Built in 1871, closed in 1969.

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 & 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
See a gazetteer description of Adlington at Vision of Britain.