Runcorn, Cheshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
RUNCORN (St. Bartholomew), is a sea-port and parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of Bucklow, and the Northen division of the county of Chester; it is 9 miles SW by W from Warrington, and 12 miles ESE from Liverpool. The parish includes the chapelries of Aston-by-Sutton, Daresbury , Halton , and Thelwall ; and the townships of Acton-Grange , Aston-Grange , Clifton , Hatton , Keckwick , Moore , Newton-by-Daresbury , Norton , Preston on-the-Hill , Stockham , and Sutton , Walton Inferior and Superior , and Weston. The town contains places of worship for Independents, Wesleyans, Lady Huntingdon's Connexion, and Primitive and Independent Methodists; a Welsh chapel, and a Roman Catholic chapel.

See: Runcorn All Saints, Runcorn Holy Trinity, and Runcorn Weston St John.

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Church Records
The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor. Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

Church of England
Due to the increasing access of online records: Hover over the collection's title for more information Other Websites These databases have incomplete parish coverage.
 * Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
 * Dates in the following table are approximate
 * Joiner Marriage Index - Cheshire ($)
 * The Genealogist Parish Registers - Cheshire ($)
 * UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at Findmypast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)
 * 1600s-1910 Cheshire Non-Conformist & Roman Catholic Registers (Baptism) 17th Century-1910 at Findmypast ($); index and images (dates may vary by parish)
 * 1600s-1910 Cheshire Non-Conformist & Roman Catholic Registers (Marriages) 17th Century-1910 at Findmypast ($); index and images (dates may vary by parish)
 * 1600s-1910 Cheshire Non-Conformist & Roman Catholic Registers (Burials) 17th Century-1910 at Findmypast ($); index and images (dates may vary by parish)
 * 1671-1900 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)
 * Runcorn, St. Michael and All Angels (C of E). Greenway Road. Founded 1885 as a chapel to All Saints, becoming a parish church in 1931. Registers of Baptisms from 1914 and Marriages from 1924 are held at the church..
 * Runcorn, St. Peter. Irwell Lane. Seaman's mission, attached to Holy Trinity; closed in 1946. Registers of Baptisms 1922–1946 and Burials 1894–1941 have been deposited at the Cheshire Record Office
 * Grange, St. Andrew (C of E). Founded in 1963 to serve the Grange estate district of Runcorn New Town. Registers of Marriages 1965–1982 have been deposited at the Cheshire Record Office. Baptism registers start in 1959 and are held at the church (no burials here).
 * Hallwood, St. Mark (C of E). Beechwood Avenue. Built in 1976 as an ecumenical church for the Hallwood area of Runcorn New Town. Registers of Baptisms from 1976, and Marriages from 1981 are held at the church.
 * Runcorn, Bethesda Church (Interdenominational). Founded 1974, and attached to Hallwood for C of E services. Registers of Baptisms from 1974 are held at the church.
 * Runcorn, St. Edward the Confessor (Roman Catholic), Irwell Lane. Founded 1842. The first church was built in Irwell Lane in 1847, and replaced by a new building in 1888, which was destroyed by fire. The present building in Ivy Street opened in 1956. Registers of baptisms 1842–1932, marriages 1854–1954 and burials 1860–1981 are at the Cheshire Record Office.
 * Runcorn, Friends' Meeting House (Quakers). Built in 1920.
 * Runcorn, Presbyterian Church, Victoria Road.
 * Runcorn, St. John's Methodist Chapel (New Connexion), Rutland Street. Founded 1818, closed in 1849. Registers 1819–1837 are at the Cheshire Record Office.
 * Runcorn, Brunswick Methodist Chapel (Wesleyan), High Street. Founded 1821, closed in 1865. Registers 1821–1865 are at the Cheshire Record Office.
 * Runcorn, Methodist Chapel (Primitive), Regent Street. Built in 1838, closed in 1871.
 * Runcorn, Zion Methodist Chapel (Wesleyan), Halton Road. Founded 1842, Built in 1871. Registers 1876–1956 are at the Cheshire Record Office.
 * Runcorn, Methodist Chapel (Free), Ellesmere Street. Founded by 1850, closed in 1958. Registers 1850–1954 are at the Cheshire Record Office. See individual page and Record Search.
 * Runcorn, Methodist Chapel (Welsh Calvinist/Presbyterian), Rutland Street. Founded 1850.
 * Runcorn, Camden Methodist Chapel (Wesleyan), Lowland Road. Built in 1862, closed in 1970. Registers 1877–1970 are at the Cheshire Record Office.
 * Runcorn, St. Paul's Methodist Chapel (Wesleyan), High Street. Opened 1866, closed in 1963. Registers 1866–1962 are at the Cheshire Record Office.
 * Runcorn, Methodist Chapel (Primitive), Greenway Road. Built in 1871, closed in 1970. Registers 1924–1970 are at the Cheshire Record Office.
 * Runcorn, Methodist Chapel (Primitive), Ashridge Street. Built in 1897, closed in 1908.
 * Runcorn, Methodist Chapel, Laburnum Grove. Founded 1960, closed in 1970. Registers 1960–1969 are at the Cheshire Record Office.
 * Runcorn, Methodist Chapel, The Heath. Built in 1970.
 * Runcorn, St. Luke's United Reformed Church (Independent/Congregational), Mason Street. Built in 1830, rebuilt in 1933.
 * Runcorn, Bethesda United Reformed Church (Independent/Congregational), High Street. Built in 1835. Registers 1832–1949 are at the Cheshire Record Office.
 * Runcorn, Hallwood United Reformed Church (Ecumenical), Lapwing Grove. Opened 1976.

Non-Conformist church records:

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

Church records for the Camden Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Runcorn, 1877-1954 Cheshire Record Office call no.: EMS 106/1/1-2, EMS 106/2/1-3.

Church records for the Ellesmere United Methodist Free Chapel, Runcorn, 1850-1954 Cheshire Record Office call no.: EMS 108/1.

Church records for the Halton Road Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Runcorn, 1876-1956 Cheshire Record Office call no.: EMS 110/11/1-2, EMS 110/12.

Church records for the Runcorn Primitive Methodist Circuit, 1843-1924 Cheshire Record Office call nos.: EMC 4/4653/1.

Church records for the St. Paul's Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Runcorn, 1848-1962 Cheshire Record Office call no.: EMS 110/11/1-2, EMS 110/12.

Church records for the Wesleyan Methodist Church at Preston-Brook, 1818-1835, 1883-1968 Cheshire Record Office call no.: EMS 154/1.

Church records for the Wesleyan Methodist Church, Weston (near Runcorn), 1876-1970 Cheshire Record Office call nos.: EMS 114/1/1-2, EMS 114/2/1-3.

Church records for the Wesleyan Methodist Church, Weston-Point, 1872-1907 Cheshire Record Office call nos.: EMS 205/1.

Lady Huntingdon Church records St. John's Chapel Runcorn 1819-1837 Microfilm of original records at the Public Record Office, London

Wesleyan Brunswick Chapel Runcorn Church records 1821-1837 Microfilm of original records at the Public Record Office, London

Primitive Methodist Church Preston-Brook, Cheshire Church records, 1823-1837 Microfilm of original records at the Public Record Office, London.

Bethesda Chapel Runcorn Independent Church records, 1832-1839 Cheshire Records Office no.: ECC/2/1/1-2

Church records Catholic Church. St. Edward's Runcorn 1842-1981 Cheshire Record Office call no.: ERC 18/5221/1-15.

Record of members, 1867-1883 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Runcorn Branch Microfilm of original records in the Church Archives, Salt Lake City

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

 * Runcorn (1837-1974)
 * Halton (1974+)

Poor Law Unions
Runcorn Poor Law Union, Cheshire

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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Runcorn on GENUKI