Doddington, Cheshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
DODDINGTON, is a township and a chapelry in Wybunbury parish, Cheshire. The township lies near the North-western railway, it is adjacent to Salop and Staffordshire; 3¼ miles south of Basford railway station, and 5½ SE by S of Nantwich. The chapelry was constituted in 1840. Post town, Wybunbury, under Nantwich.

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 * Click "List Contiguous Parishes" to find the neighboring parishes

Civil Registrations
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. 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 and Crewe (1974–88)
 * South Cheshire (1988–98)

Church Records
Doddington is an extra parochial area and the closest ecclesiastical parish is Wybunbury.
 * Extra-parochial areas were not attached to parish churches.
 * The residents went to a church of their choosing outside of the parish boundaries.

Census Records
Indexes to some Censuses may be searched at FamilySearch. Click "Records Collections".

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

Websites
Doddington on GENUKI