Willington, Cheshire Genealogy

England Cheshire  Willington

Parish History
Willington was an extra-parochial place in Eddisbury Hundred (Map Grid SJ 5366), which became a civil parish in 1866. It Included the hamlets of Tirley and Willington Corner (part).

It is necessary to search the surrounding parishes for ecclesiastical records, The registration district is Great Boughton

Willington is a village and civil parish, about 9 miles from Chester, in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.

The place-name means "village of a woman called Winflǣd", from the Old English personal name Winflǣd + tun "farm, village". The name was recorded in the Domesday Book as Winfletone, and as Wynlaton in the 12th Century


 * Kelsall, St Philip (C of E). The parish church for Willington since 1965 (previously extra-parochial). Kelsall, St. Philip (C of E). Built in 1860 as a chapel to Tarvin. Becoming the parish church for Kelsall from 1956, and extended to include Willington in 1965. Registers of Baptisms 1868–1962, Marriages 1869–1976 and Burials 1868–1930 have been deposited at the Cheshire Record Office

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.Registration events may be searched online at Cheshire BMD

Church records
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. Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, nonconformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection.

Non-Conformist Churches
Willington, Methodist Chapel (Free). Built in 1823, rebuilt in 1865. Registers of baptisms 1893–1932 are at the Cheshire Record Office. Cheshire Non-conformist records are available online in Record Search

Church records for the New Connexion Methodist Church, Willington, 1893-1932 Microfilm Baptisms, 1893-1932. VAULT BRITISH Film 2299528 Item 2

Census records
Index for the Census may be searched at FamilySearch Historical Records

http://www.1881pubs.com/ for details of public houses in the 1881 census

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.

Poor Law Unions
Tarvin (previously Great Boughton) Poor Law Union, Cheshire

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

Web sites
Contributor: Add any relevant sites that aren’t mentioned above.