Threapwood, Cheshire Genealogy

Guide to Threapwood, Cheshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy:

'''This parish was partly in Flintshire, Wales. See also, Threapwood, Flintshire, Wales.'''

Parish History
"THREAPWOOD, an extra-parochial district, said to be partly included in the hundred of Broxton, county of Chester, but chiefly in that of Maelor, county of Flint, 3 miles WSW from Malpas, containing 477 inhabitants. It is surrounded by the parishes of Malpas, Hanmer, and Worthenbury, and until of late years, formed a tract of waste common, which, on account of its extra-parochial exemption from all local jurisdiction, was long the resort of abandoned charterers of every description, and especially of women of loose or blemished morals, who made a transient abode here, to be freed clandestinely from the consequences of illicit amours." [A Topographical Dictionary of Wales, 1833, Samuel Lewis]

Threapwood was an extra-parochial place, partly in Broxton Hundred (Cheshire) and partly in Maelor Hundred (Flintshire), which became a civil parish in 1866. It included the hamlets of Sarn (part) and Upper Threapwood.

It is necessary to search the neighbouring ecclesiastical parish of Malpas. Threapwood is an extra-parochial place. Search surrounding parishes for records and information.

In 1817 the chapelry of St John the Baptist was created from the ancient parish of Malpas.

In 1896 the part of Threapwood in Flintshire was added to Cheshire, Hundred: Broxton; Province: York.

Census records
The 1841 census returns for Threapwood are missing.

Church records
Threapwood 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
Threapwood, United Reformed Church (Independent/Congregational). Built in 1850. United Reformed Church Cheshire Congregational Union Deeds and property records are deposited Cheshire Record Office (DocumentReference ECU/3151/1/45).

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

 * Wrexham (1837–96)
 * Whitchurch (1897–1937)
 * West Cheshire (1937–74)
 * Chester and Ellesmere Port (1974–98)
 * Cheshire West (post 1998)

Poor Law Unions

 * Wrexham 1837-1896


 * Whitchurch Incorporation Poor Law Union, Shropshire 1896-1930

Probate records
Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Chester (Episcopal Consistory) 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

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
Threapwood on GENUKI

School Records
School registers, 1898-1945 Threapwood National School (Cheshire) Cheshire school records are available on-line at FamilySearch Historical Records within limits of privacy laws. Microfilm of original records in the Cheshire Record Office, Chester, England. Record contains register of admission, progress, and withdrawal, 1898-1945 and includes index. Cheshire Record Office no.: SL 141/2