Adlington, Cheshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
ADLINGTON, is a township, in the parish of Prestbury, union and hundred of Macclesfield, N. division of the county of Chester, it is 5 miles (N. by W.) from Macclesfield.

Adlington was one of the 35 pre-Norman townships in the ancient parish of Prestbury and remained part of the parish of Prestbury and the records of Prestbury St Peter contain Adlington residents.

It is known as Eduluintune in the Domesday Book.

Church Records
Adlington parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

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

Records are also available at the Cheshire Archives and Local Studies.

Non-Conformist Churches

 * Methodist New Connexion
 * Primitive Methodist
 * Wesleyan Methodist

Adlington, Methodist Chapel (New Connexion, later United Methodist). Built in 1870, closed in 1957.

Registers of marriages, 1941–54, are at the Record Office.

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

 * Macclesfield (1837–98)
 * Cheshire East (1998+)

Poor Law Unions

 * Macclesfield

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.

Websites
Adlington at Genuki