Gee Cross, Cheshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
WERNETH, a township, in the parish and union of Stockport, hundred of Macclesfield, N. division of the county of Chester, 5 miles (N. E. by E.) from Stockport. In the township are the hamlets of Gee-Cross and Compstall-Bridge, it consists of one wide street, half a mile in length, on the road from Stockport to Mottram-in-Longdendale. A church, dedicated to St. Paul, a plain but neat structure, was erected in 1841. At Compstall is a place of worship for Methodists, and at GeeCross one for Unitarians.

Church Records
Gee-Cross is a hamlet in the parish of Stockport. Created a parish in 1880 from Comstall, Hyde St George and Hyde St Thomas.-*

Gee Cross Chapelry registers of christenings, marriages and burials have online indexes by the following groups:

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

Bishop's transcripts for Gee-Cross Chapelry, 1899-1902 Cheshire Record Office no.: EDB 93.

Non-Conformist Churches

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at Findmypast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)
 * 1671-1900 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)


 * Unitarian

Non-Conformists Church Records:

Hyde, Gee Cross Unitarian, burials, 4 Jan. 1786 to 14 Apr. 1877 References: (Partial Index to) Church records, 1714-1848 / Gee Cross Unitarian Church (Hyde)

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

 * Stockport (1837-1930)

Poor Law Unions

 * Stockport

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.