Hurdsfield, Cheshire Genealogy

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

See Hurdsfield Holy Trinity, Cheshire

Parish History
HURDSFIELD, is a township, in the parish of Prestbury, union and hundred of Macclesfield, N. division of the county of Chester; and is adjoining the town of Macclesfield on the east. The Macclesfield and Chapel-en-le-Frith Road, and the Macclesfield Canal, pass through. A very neat church, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, was consecrated in 1837. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.

Church records
Hurdsfield Holy Trinity 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.

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

Cheshire Record Office no.: P165/1/1-2, P165/2/1-7, P165/3/1-3, P165/4/1.

Bishop's transcripts, Cheshire Record Office no.: EDB 116

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)

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

Cheshire Record Office call no.: EMS 1/1.

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 Districtions

 * Macclesfield (1837-1975)

Poor Law

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


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Hurdsfield on GENUKI