Threapwood, Cheshire Genealogy

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Guide to Threapwood, Cheshire family history and genealogy: parish registers (baptism, christening, marriage, and burial records), civil registration (birth, marriage, and death records), census records, history, wills, cemetery, online transcriptions and indexes, an interactive map and websites.

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

Parish History
"THREAP-WOOD, 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 (W.S.W.) 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 accoutn of its extra-parochial exemption from all local jurisdiction, was long the resort of abandoned charcters 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.

Civil Registration
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. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.


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

The post 2009 reorganisation of civil registration can be found on-line at Cheshire BMD

Church records
Threapwood St John Chapelry registers of christenings, marriages and burials have been indexed by the following groups:

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

Threapwood, St. John (C. of E). Founded 1817 as a chapel to Malpas (formerly extra-parochial), becoming the parish church for Threapwood in 1968. Registers of Baptisms 1817–1944, Marriages 1837–1966 and Burials 1829–1989 have been deposited at the Cheshire Record Office. Bishop's transcripts for Threapwood, 1817-1840 Cheshire, Church of England Baptismal records are available online at FamilySearch Historical Records. Microfilm of originals in the Cheshire Record Office, Chester.Cheshire Record Office: EDB 200

Parish registers for Threapwood, 1817-1989 Microfilm of original records in the Cheshire Record Office, Chester, England. (Threapwood was originally a chapelry bordering Cheshire and Flint in the Parish of Malpas).Cheshire Record Office no.: P203/1/1-2, P203/4622/22, 24.

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).

Census records
The 1841 census returns for Threapwood are missing.

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)

Poor Law Unions

 * Wrexham 1837-1896


 * Whitchurch Incorporation Poor Law Union, Shropshire 1896-1930

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

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