Winsford, Cheshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
OVER (St. Chad), a market-town and parish, having separate jurisdiction, locally in the First division of the hundred of Eddisbury, partly in the union of Nantwich, but chiefly in that of Northwich, S. division of the county of Chester. Between the parishes of Over and Davenham, is Winsford bridge, where the navigation ends. There is a place of worship for Independents.

Find Neighboring Parishes
Use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map
 * Type the name of the parish in the search bar
 * Click on the location pin on the map
 * Choose Options from the pop up box
 * Click "List Contiguous Parishes" to find the neighboring parishes

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)
 * Wesleyan Methodist
 * New Connexion Methodist
 * Primitive Methodist
 * United Methodist Free

Non-Conformists Church Records:


 * 1600s-1910 Cheshire Non-Conformist & Roman Catholic Registers (Baptism) 17th Century-1910 at Findmypast ($); index and images (dates may vary by parish)


 * 1671-1900 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)

Church records for St. Paul's United Methodist Free Chapel, Winsford, 1868-1958 Cheshire Record Office call nos.: EMS 236/1/1-5; EMS 236/2/1-3.

Church records for the Bethesda Primitive Methodist Chapel, Winsford, 1901-1919 Cheshire Record Office call nos.: EMS 232/1/1.

Church records for the Central Primitive Methodist Chapel, Winsford, 1861-1914 Cheshire Record Office call nos.: EMS 233/1/1-2.

Church records for the New Connexion Methodist Church, Winsford, 1904-1952 Cheshire Record Office call nos.: EMS 235/1/1, EMS 235/2/1.

Church records for the Wharton Road Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Winsford, 1838-1957 Cheshire Record Office call nos.: EMS 237/1/1-4, EMS 237/2/1-4.

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

 * Northwich (1837-1936)
 * Northwich (1936-74)
 * Vale Royal (1974-98)
 * Cheshire Central (1998-2007)
 * Cheshire (2007-09)
 * Cheshire West & Chester (2009+)

Poor Law Unions

 * Northwich

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
See a gazetteer description of Adlington at Vision of Britain.