Thornton-Hough, Cheshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
THORNTON-HOUGH, or Thorton Mayow, a township-chapelry in Neston parish, Cheshire; 2 miles W by S of Bromborough r. station, and 2 NNE of Great Neston. Post town, Chester. There is a Wesleyan chapel.

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

Thornton-Hough was a chapelry in Neston parish, created a parish in 1869 from Willaston and Neston.

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

Parish registers for Thornton-Hough, 1868-1902 Cheshire Record Office call no.: P179/1.

Bishop's transcripts for Thornton-Hough, 1868-1877 Cheshire Record Office: EDB 198

Non-Conformist Churches

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)
 * Independent/Congregational (1902)

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 (1837-1974)
 * Birkenhead (1974-98)
 * Wirral (1998+)

Poor Law Unions

 * Wirral

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.