Cheshire, England Genealogy

England Cheshire

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

County Information
The county contains 91 parishes, parts of 5 other parishes, and 4 extra-parochial places... measures 692,999 acres...

The county is governed by a lord lieutenant, a high sheriff, 65 deputy lieutenants, and about 290 magistrates. The assizes are held at Chester; and quarter-sessions at Chester and Knutsford... The county, excepting part of the parish of Threapwood, is all in the diocese of Chester... The places of worship, within the county proper, in 1851 were 252 of the Church of England, 2 of United Presbyterians, 3 of English Presbyterians, 66 of Independents, 31 of Baptists, 10 of Quakers, 14 of Unitarians, 3 of Moravians, 188 of Wesleyan Methodists, 29 of New Connexion Methodists, 135 of Primitive Methodists, 50 of the Wesleyan Association, 4 of Calvinistic Methodists, 8 of Lady Huntingdon's Connexion, 5 of Brethren, 7 of isolated congregations, 9 of Latter Day Saints, and 17 of Roman Catholics...   John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72).Vision of Britain.

Parishes
Use an interactive mapto find jurisdictions for each parish in Cheshire.

Civil Registration Districts
When civil registration of births, marriages and deaths began in 1837, Cheshire was divided into a number of registration districts, each containing several parishes. The index to the civil records gives the name of the district where an event took place. Click here to see a list of the civil districts in Cheshire and the parishes covered by each. Read more about England Civil Registration.

Websites

 * Cheshire Resources and help pages on RootsChat Cheshire Resources and help pages. (Free).
 * Findmypast has digitised a full collection of Cheshire parish records and land tax assessments
 * The GENUKI Cheshire pages
 * Cheshire on Genealogylinks.net
 * Cheshire BMD, for indexes to births, marriages, and deaths from 1837
 * The Cheshire Parish Register Transcription Project
 * The Cheshire Record Office's page for getting started in family history
 * To collaborate with others, receive research help and get local information join the Cheshire Mailing List.
 * Cheshire Register of Electors, 1842-1900: provided through FamilySearch Historical Records. To learn more about this record set review the Wiki article.

To view a further list of web sites and/or web pages for Cheshire and many of its parishes, visit FHLFavorites.info.

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Raymond, Stuart A. Cheshire: a genealogical bibliography, vol. 1. Cheshire genealogical sources. Birmingham, England: Family History SOcieties (Pubblications) Ltd., c1995.

Raymond, Stuart A. Cheshire: a genealogical bibliography, vol. 2. ''Cheshire family histories and pedigrees. ''Birmingham, England: Family History Societies (Publications) Ltd., c1995.