Pott Shrigley, Cheshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
POTT-SHRIGLEY, is a township-chapelry, with a village, in Prestbury parish, Cheshire; on the Macclesfield Canal, 2 miles E by S of Adlington railway station, and 4 NNE of Macclesfield. The post-town is Bollington, under Macclesfield.

Pott Shrigley, St Christopher is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Cheshire, created in 1719 from chapelry in Prestbury, Cheshire Ancient Parish. It is part of the Macclesfield Arch-Deaconry in the Diocese of Chester.

Pott Shrigley is a rural hamlet The parish covers a lot of ground and outlying farms and cottages can be found as far as three miles away, almost in Higher Poynton. The parish covers an extensive area; outlying farms and cottages can be found as far as three miles away, almost in Higher Poynton.

The church was originally a chapel of ease for the parish of Prestbury. The parish registers for baptisms begin in 1629; burials and marriages were added in 1685. The churchwardens' accounts start in 1833. The silver communion plate includes a paten of 1576, a chalice of 1622, and a flagon, chalice and two patens of 1711.

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Church Records
The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor. Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

Church of England
Due to the increasing access of online records: Hover over the collection's title for more information Other Websites These databases have incomplete parish coverage.
 * Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
 * Dates in the following table are approximate
 * Joiner Marriage Index - Cheshire ($)
 * The Genealogist Parish Registers - Cheshire ($)
 * UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 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)

Pott Shrigley, Methodist Chapel, Green Close (New Connexion). Built in 1861.

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

 * Macclesfield (1837–1998)
 * Cheshire East (post 1998)

Poor Law Unions

 * Macclesfield Poor Law Union, Cheshire

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

Websites
Pott Shrigley on GENUKI