High Legh, Cheshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
LEGH (HIGH), is a village and a township-chapely in Rostherne parish, Cheshire. The village stands 3¼ miles S of Heatley and Warburton railway station, and 5 miles N W of Knutsford; it is a scattered place; and has a post office under Knutsford. The church was built in 1815; superseded a previous edifice of 1404.

High Legh St John, Cheshire,was created in 1815 as a chapel to Rostherne and became a parish in 1817.

High Legh St Mary's chapel was built around 1581 as a chapel of ease to High Legh East Hall. High Legh became a separate parish in 1817.

High Legh is the site of an early Methodist chapel in Northwood Lane, with Wesleyan connections.

Church records
High Legh 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
Independent Methodist Chapel

Non-Conformist Records:

Warrington Library Document Reference WMS 2249 High Legh Independent Methodist church records Description Miscellaneous papers including history of the church (1783-1983) and papers relating to the Okell family Extent 1 bundle

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

 * Altrincham (1837–98)
 * Bucklow (1898–1974)
 * Macclesfield (1974–98)
 * Cheshire East (post 1998)

Poor Law Unions

 * Altrincham (1836–95)
 * Bucklow (1895–1930)
 * Altrincham (renamed Bucklow) 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
High Legh on GENUKI