Willington, Cheshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
WILLINGTON, is an extra-parochial district, locally in the parish of Tarvin, union of Great Boughton, Second division of the hundred of Eddisbury, South division of the county of Chester, 1½ miles S by E from Kelsall. It is situated on the south-west side of Delamere Forest.

Willington was an extra-parochial place in Eddisbury Hundred (Map Grid SJ 5366), which became a civil parish in 1866. It included the hamlets of Tirley and Willington Corner (part).

It is necessary to search the surrounding parishes for ecclesiastical records, The registration district is Great Boughton.

Willington is a village and civil parish, about 9 miles from Chester, in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.

The place-name means "village of a woman called Winflǣd", from the Old English personal name Winflǣd + tun "farm, village". The name was recorded in the Domesday Book as Winfletone, and as Wynlaton in the 12th Century.


 * Kelsall, St Philip (C of E). The parish church for Willington since 1965 (previously extra-parochial). Kelsall, St. Philip (C of E). Built in 1860 as a chapel to Tarvin. Becoming the parish church for Kelsall from 1956, and extended to include Willington in 1965. Registers of Baptisms 1868–1962, Marriages 1869–1976 and Burials 1868–1930 have been deposited at the Cheshire Record Office

Church records
Willington parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the Cheshire Archives and Local Studies.

Non-Conformist Churches

 * Willington, Methodist Chapel (Free). Built in 1823, rebuilt in 1865. Registers of baptisms 1893–1932 are at the Cheshire Record Office. Cheshire Non-conformist records are available online in Record Search
 * Non-Conformist Records: Church records for the New Connexion Methodist Church, Willington, 1893-1932 Microfilm Baptisms, 1893-1932. VAULT BRITISH Film 2299528 Item 2

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

 * Great Boughton (1837-69)
 * Chester (1870-1937)
 * West Cheshire (1937-74)
 * Chester & Ellesmere Port (1974-98)
 * Cheshire West (1998-2007)
 * Cheshire (2007-09)
 * Cheshire West & Chester (2009+)

Poor Law Unions
Tarvin (previously Great Boughton) 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
Willington on GENUKI