Rode, Cheshire Genealogy

England Cheshire  Cheshire Parishes Rode 

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

Church Records
Rode Odd Parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials have online indexes by the following groups:

Rode Odd All Saints was founded in 1851 as a chapelry in the parish of Astbury: St. Mary, becoming a Parish for Odd Rode in 1860.

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

Parish registers of Odd Rode, 1808-1952 Cheshire Record Office no.: P26/1/1-3, P26/2/1-5.

Bishop's transcripts for Odd Rode, 1864-1884 Cheshire Record Office: EDB 160

Non-Conformist Churches
Not Known

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

 * Congleton (1837-1937)
 * Crewe (1937-74)
 * Congleton &amp; Crewe (1974-88)
 * South Cheshire (1988-98)
 * Cheshire Central (1998-2007)
 * Cheshire (2007-09)
 * Cheshire East (2009+)

Poor Law Unions

 * Congleton

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.