Lymm, Cheshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
LYMM, is a village, a parish, and a sub-district in Altrincham district, Cheshire. The village stands on the Bridgewater Canal, near the Manchester, Warrington and Garston railway, it is 1¼ mile SSE of the River Mersey, 1¼ of a mile SW of the river Bollin, and 4½ miles ESE of Warrington; and has a station on the railway, there is a post office under Warrington. The parish contains also the hamlets of Heatley-Heath and Cliffe-Lane, and the places called Crouchley Lane , Burford Lane , Lymm Booths , Oughtrington , Broom edge , Reddish , and Statham ; and it extends to the Mersey and the Bollin Acres. An Independent chapel was built in 1863, there are also chapels for Baptists, Wesleyans, and Primitive Methodists.

Lymm St Mary the Virgin is an ancient parish in Cheshire and includes Broomedge, Burford Lane, Cliffe Lane, Crouchley Lane, Heatley Heath, Lymm Booths, Oughtrington, Reddish, Statham. The Domesday Book shows that a church was on the site in the 11th century.

Church records
Lymm St Mary the Virgin parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials have been indexed by the following groups:

To find the names of the neighbouring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Lymm, St. Mary the Virgin (C of E). The ancient parish church for the township of Lymm. Registers of Baptisms 1568–1962, Marriages 1568–1951 and Burials 1568–1949 have been deposited at the Cheshire Record Office. Microfilm copy of original record in the Cheshire Record Office, Chester, England. Cheshire Record Office call nos.: P119/2924/1/1-4, P119/2924/2/1-4, P119/2924/3/1-5, P119/2924/4, P119/2924/5/1-2.

Bishop's Transcripts Microfilm copy of original record in the Cheshire Record Office, Chester, England. Cheshire Record Office no.: EDB 135.

Online transcripts for Lymm are available at Cheshire Parish Register project Oughtrington, St. Peter (C of E). Built in 1872 as a chapel to Lymm, becoming the parish church for part of Lymm in 1881. Registers of Baptisms 1872–1966, Marriages 1882–1938 and Burials 1872–1910 have been deposited at the Cheshire Record Office Micro reproduction of originals at the Cheshire Record Office in Chester, England. Oughtrington is a hamlet in Lymm parish. Cheshire Record Office call no.: P237/4964/1-3, 5-7.

Non Conformist Churches

 * 1600s-1910 Cheshire Non-Conformist & Roman Catholic Registers (Baptism) 17th Century-1910 at FindMyPast ($); index and images (dates may vary by parish)


 * 1671-1900 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)


 * Lymm, St. Winefride (Roman Catholic), Booth's Hill Road. Built in 1905.
 * Lymm, Baptist Chapel, Cherry Lane. Built in 1810.
 * Lymm, Baptist Chapel, Higher Lane. Built in 1850 (with burial ground).
 * Lymm, Methodist Chapel (Wesleyan), New Road. Built in 1809, rebuilt in 1879, closed in 1968 Registers 1809–1837 and 1929–1967 are at the Cheshire Record Office. Microfilm of original records in the Cheshire Record Office, Chester, England. Cheshire Record Office call nos.: EMS 258/1-3.


 * Lymm, Methodist Chapel (Primitive), Eagle Brow. Built in 1849, rebuilt in 1897. Registers of baptisms 1832–1862 are at Manchester Central Library. Microfilm copy of original registers filmed at the Manchester Archives Central Library in Manchester, England. Localities where circuit members resided include: Lowton, Knutsford, Warrington, Lymm, Partrington, Newchurch, Shelton, Woodhouses, High Legh, Bedford, St. Helen, Latchford, Culcheth, Bank Quay, Croft, Edge Green, Bowdon, Glaze Brook, Ashton, Tabley, Ashton-in-the-Willows, Carrington, Cadishead, Parr-Toll-Bar, Billinge, Pemberton, Irlam, Parr-Stocks, Altrincham, Walton, Vulcan Foundry, Risley, Manchester, Bold, Appleton, Dunham, Woodcote, Heatley, Hulme, Agden, Warburton, Statham, Manchester Archives Central Library call nos.: C18/12.


 * Lymm, Methodist Chapel (Free), Cherry Lane. Built in 1849.
 * Lymm, United Reformed Church (Independent/Congregational), Brookfield Road. Built in 1863.

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 District

 * Altrincham (1837–98)
 * Bucklow (1898–1974)
 * Warrington (post 1974)

Poor Law Unions

 * Altrincham (1836–95)
 * Bucklow (1895–1930)
 * Altrincham (renamed Bucklow) Poor Law Union, Cheshire

Poor law records for Lymm, 1690-1872 Church of England. Parish Church of Lymm (Cheshire)

Notes Microfilm copy of original record in the Cheshire Record Office, Chester, England. Cheshire Record Office call nos.: P119/5, P119/6/1-5, P119/7/1-90, P119/19/1-3, P119/20, P119/22/1-19, P119/23/1-16, P119/25/1-59, P119/26/1-77, P119/27/1-27, P119/28/1-81, P119/29/1-2.

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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Lymm on GENUKI