Winsford, Cheshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
OVER (St. Chad), a market-town and parish, having separate jurisdiction, locally in the First division of the hundred of Eddisbury, partly in the union of Nantwich, but chiefly in that of Northwich, S. division of the county of Chester. Between the parishes of Over and Davenham, is Winsford bridge, where the navigation ends. There is a place of worship for Independents.

Church Records
The district church for Stockport Etchells from 1882.

Gatley Chapelry registers of christenings, marriages and burials have online indexes by the following groups:

Winsford is formerly a chapelry attached to Over parish, but located in Davenham parish. Winsford is a village in Wharton township. Called Christ Church.

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

Bishop's transcripts for Winsford, 1844-1854 Cheshire Record Office: EDB 223

Non-Conformist Churches

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images
 * Wesleyan Methodist
 * New Connexion Methodist
 * Primitive Methodist
 * United Methodist Free

Non-Conformists Church Records:


 * 1600s-1910 Cheshire Non-Conformist & Roman Catholic Registers (Baptism) 17th Century-1910 at FindMyPast ($); index and images (dates may vary by parish)


 * 1671-1900 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)

Church records for St. Paul's United Methodist Free Chapel, Winsford, 1868-1958 Cheshire Record Office call nos.: EMS 236/1/1-5; EMS 236/2/1-3.

Church records for the Bethesda Primitive Methodist Chapel, Winsford, 1901-1919 Cheshire Record Office call nos.: EMS 232/1/1.

Church records for the Central Primitive Methodist Chapel, Winsford, 1861-1914 Cheshire Record Office call nos.: EMS 233/1/1-2.

Church records for the New Connexion Methodist Church, Winsford, 1904-1952 Cheshire Record Office call nos.: EMS 235/1/1, EMS 235/2/1.

Church records for the Wharton Road Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Winsford, 1838-1957 Cheshire Record Office call nos.: EMS 237/1/1-4, EMS 237/2/1-4.

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 Districts

 * Northwich (1837-1936)
 * Northwich (1936-74)
 * Vale Royal (1974-98)
 * Cheshire Central (1998-2007)
 * Cheshire (2007-09)
 * Cheshire West & Chester (2009+)

Poor Law Unions

 * Northwich

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.