Wharton, Cheshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
WHARTON, a township, in the parish of Davenham, union and hundred of Northwich, S. division of the county of Chester, 2½ miles WNW from Middlewich.

Church Records
Wharton Parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials have online indexes by the following groups:

Here is a list of parish registers on microfilm at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City.

Parish registers for Wharton, 1843-1947 Cheshire Record Office call no.: P214/1/1-4, P214/4662/7, P214/2/1-4, P214/3/1-2.

Bishop's transcripts for Wharton, 1851-1895 Cheshire Record Office: EDB 217

Non-Conformist Churches

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)
 * Presbyterian

Non-Conformists Church Records:

Church records for Wharton Presbyterian Church, 1803-1921.

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)

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.