Threapwood, Cheshire Genealogy

England Cheshire  parish name

Parish History
Threapwood was an extra-parochial place (Map Grid SJ 4445), partly in Broxton Hundred [Cheshire] and partly in Maelor Hundred [Flintshire], which became a civil parish in 1866. It included the hamlets of Sarn (part) and Upper Threapwood. It is necessary to search the neighbouring ecclesiastical parish of Malpas and the chapelry of malpas was created in 1817. Threapwood is an extra-parochial place. Search surrounding parishes for records and information.Civil Registration District: Wrexham Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Chester (Episcopal Consistory) Poor Law Union: Wrexham Hundred: Broxton Province: York In 1896 the part of Threapwood in Flintshire was added to Cheshire.

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.

Church records
To find the names of the neighboring 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.

Threapwood, St. John (C of E). Founded 1817 as a chapel to Malpas (formerly extra-parochial), becoming the parish church for Threapwood in 1968. Registers of Baptisms 1817–1944, Marriages 1837–1966 and Burials 1829–1989 have been deposited at the Cheshire Record Office. Bishop's transcripts for Threapwood, 1817-1840 Authors Church of England. Parish Church of Threapwood (Cheshire) (Main Author)

Notes Cheshire, Church of England marriage records are available online in Record Search, Cheshire, Church of England Baptismal records are available online in Record Search Microfilm of originals in the Cheshire Record Office, Chester.Cheshire Record Office: EDB 200

Bishops Transcripts

Parish registers for Threapwood, 1817-1989 Microfilm of original records in the Cheshire Record Office, Chester, England. (Threapwood was originally a chapelry bordering Cheshire and Flint in the Parish of Malpas).Cheshire Record Office no.: P203/1/1-2, P203/4622/22, 24.

Non-Conformist Churches
Threapwood, United Reformed Church (Independent/Congregational). Built in 1850. United Reformed Church Cheshire Congregational Union Deeds and property records are deposited Cheshire Record Office DocumentReference ECU/3151/1/45

Census records
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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.

Poor Law Unions
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Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
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Web sites
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School Records
School registers, 1898-1945 Threapwood National School (Cheshire)  Cheshire school records are available online in Record Search  within limits of privacy laws. Microfilm of original records in the Cheshire Record Office, Chester, England. Record contains register of admission, progress, and withdrawal, 1898-1945 and includes index. Cheshire Record Office no.: SL 141/2 School registers, 1898-1945 FHL BRITISH Film 1894891 Item 8