Stalybridge St Paul, Cheshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
STALYBRIDGE, is a market-town, in the union of Ashton-under-Lyne; partly in the Hartshead division of the parish of Ashton-under-Lyne, hundred of Salford, South division of the county of Lancaster; partly in the township of Dukinfield, parish of Stockport, and partly in the township of Stayley , parish of Mottram-in-Longdendale, hundred of Macclesfield, N. division of the county of Chester; it is 1 mile (E. by S.) from Ashton, 7 miles E from Manchester, and 8 NE by N from Stockport.

The chapel, at Cocker Hill, dedicated to St. George, was erected by subscription in 1776. An additional church, also dedicated to St. George, was built in 1840. At Stayley and Dukinfield are other churches. There are places of worship for General and Particular Baptists, Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists, Methodists of the New Connexion, Independents, and Roman Catholics.

Stalybridge St Paul is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Cheshire, created in 1840 from Mottram in Longdendale, Cheshire Ancient Parish.

A meeting was held on the 9th May 1835 in the Eagle Inn to which 13 gentlemen attended. They were all of the opinion that a new church should be built in the township of Stayley. Richard Tattersall of Manchester was chosen as the architect with the brief that the design was to be the Early English Perpendicular Style of the 13th century. The Foundation Stone was laid by Viscount Combermere on the 2nd February 1838 with an impressive ceremony which was watched by some 12,000 - 15,000 people. The church was consecrated on the 9th October 1839 and almost the total cost of 4,100 pounds was covered by the subscriptions raised.

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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 ($), index and images (coverage may vary)
 * 1600s-1910 Cheshire Non-Conformist & Roman Catholic Registers (Baptism) 17th Century-1910 at Findmypast ($); index and images (dates may vary by parish)
 * 1671-1900 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)
 * Baptist
 * General Baptist
 * Independent/Congregational
 * Methodist New Connexion
 * Particular Baptist
 * Plymouth Brethren
 * Primitive Methodist
 * Roman Catholic
 * The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
 * Wesleyan Methodist
 * Wesleyan Methodist Association

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 District

 * Ashton under Lyne (1894-1937)
 * Hyde (1937-74)
 * Tameside (1974+)

Poor Law Unions
Ashton under Lyne, Lancashire, Poor Law Union

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.

Cheshire Probate Jurisdictions, Parishes S-Z

See also England Cheshire Probate Records - FamilySearch Historical Records

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Stalybridge GENUKI

Stalybridge St Paul on GENUKI