Moulton, Cheshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
MOULTON, a township, in the parish of Davenham, union and hundred of Northwich, S. division of the county of Chester, 3 miles (S.) from Northwich.

Church Records
Moulton Parish 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.

Parish registers for Moulton, 1878-1973. Cheshire Record Office call nos.: P213/1/12, P213/2/1-4.

Bishop's transcripts for St. Stephen the Martyr's Church, Moulton, 1878-1904. Cheshire Record Office: EDB 152.

Non-Conformist Churches

 * Primitive Methodists
 * Independent/Congregational

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

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

Poor Law Unions

 * Northwich

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.