Cheddleton, Staffordshire Genealogy

England Staffordshire Staffordshire Parishes

Guide to Cheddleton, Staffordshire family history and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
CHEDDLETON (St. Edward), a parish, in the union of Cheadle, N. division of the hundred of Totmonslow and of the county of Stafford, 3½ miles(S. by W.) from Leek; comprising the townships of Basford, Cheddleton, and Consall or Cunsall.

Cheddleton St Edward is an Ancient parish. Other places in the parish include: Basford, Cellar Head, Chadderton, Wetley Rocks, Consall, Cunsall, Rownall, and Cheddleton and Rownall.

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

Please see Staffordshire BMD

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

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1676-1983 Mar 1676-1974 Bur 1676-1941 Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1676-1829 Mar 1676-1829 Bur 1676-1829

Census records

 * 1532/3 - A List of Families in 1532/3

Genealogy
Homersley Jeffrey. Our Ancestors. Three generations of Ade Le Kinge (Homersley) are given, illustrated with a photograph of William Homersley and Katherine Jenkins and a newspaper obituary of William Homersley, 1956. Homersley name was initiated about 1300 in Cheddleton, Staffordshire, and at some stage, they moved to Wales, Flintshire, Harwarden. Article covers years 1274-1955 and is found in Journal Hel Achau, #99, Dec. 2008, pages 13-15, 942.93 D25h

Poor Law Unions
Cheadle Poor Law Union, Staffordshire

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Staffordshire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

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
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/STS/Cheddleton/index.html