Kingsley, Cheshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
KINGSLEY, a township, in the parish of Frodsham, union of Runcorn, hundred of Eddisbury, S. division of the county of Chester, 3¾ miles SE from Frodsham. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans and a school is endowed with four acres and a half of land.

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

Kingsley is a chapelry in the parish of Frodsham created a parish in 1853.

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

Parish registers for Kingsley Chapelry, 1851-1927 Cheshire Record Office nos.: P263/1-3.

Bishop's transcripts for Kingsley, 1876-1883 Cheshire Record Office: EDB 120

Non-Conformist Churches

 * 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)


 * Primitive Methodist

Non-Conformists Church Records:

Church records for the Kingsley and Frodsham Primitive Methodist Circuit, 1899-1965 Cheshire Record Office call nos.: EMC 4/4653/6.

Church records for the Primitive Methodist Chapel, Kingsley, 1925-1946 Cheshire Record Office call no.: EMS 199/1/1.

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

 * Runcorn (1837-1974)
 * Vale Royal (1974-98)
 * Cheshire Central (1998-2007)
 * Cheshire (2007-09)
 * Cheshire West &amp; Chester (2009+)

Poor Law Unions

 * Runcorn

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.