New Ferry, Cheshire Genealogy

England Cheshire  Cheshire Parishes New Ferry 

Guide to New Ferry, Cheshire family history and genealogy: parish registers (baptism, christening, marriage, and burial records), civil registration (birth, marriage, and death records), census records, history, wills, cemetery, online transcriptions and indexes, an interactive map and websites.

Church Records
New Ferry Chapelry registers of christenings, marriages and burials have online indexes by the following groups:

New Ferry St Mark the Evangelist, was a chapelry in Bebington, created a parish in 1888 from Nether Bebington.

Here is a list of parish registers on microfilm at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. Parish registers of New Ferry, 1866-1949 Cheshire Record Office no.: P159/1/1-2, 4-6; P159/2/1-5.

Non-Conformist Churches

 * Wesleyan Methodist
 * Roman Catholic

Non-Conformists Church Records: Church records for the Bebington Road Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, New Ferry, 1876-1949 Cheshire Record Office call no.: EMS 158/9, EMS 158/10/1-4.

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

 * Wirral (1837-1922)

Poor Law Unions

 * Wirral (1836-1922)

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.