Saltersford, Cheshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
SALTERSFORD, is a chapelry, in the parish of Prestbury, union and hundred of Macclesfield, and Northern division of the county of Chester, it is 6 miles ENE from Macclesfield. The chapel is a neat edifice, erected in 1731.

Saltersford St John was dedicated originally to St John the Baptist later St John the Evangelist and as a chapelry was known as the Jenkin Chapel. Saltersford is one of the 35 townships in pre-Norman Prestbury Ancient Parish.

Its building was financed by John Slack of Saltersford Hall, and by other voluntary contributions, and it was dedicated on 24 June 1733, originally to St John the Baptist. The tower was added in 1754-55, but the church was not officially consecrated until 1894, when it was re-dedicated to St. John the Evangelist.

Church records
Saltersford St John the Baptist 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.

Prestbury, St. Peter (C of E). The ancient parish church for Kettleshulme,Rainow and Saltersford. Macclesfield, St. Michael (C of E). An ancient chapelry in Prestbury parish. Saltersford was a separate parish created in 1780 and later joined with Kettleshulme as a parish in 1864. Saltersford, St. John the Baptist (C of E). The parish church from 1863.

Parish registers for Rainow with Saltersford parish, 1765-1992 The parish of Rainow-with-Salterford was created in 1921. Previously, Rainow was a chapelry in Presbury Parish. Salterford was a separate parish created in 1780 and later joined with Kettleshulme as a parish in 1863 Cheshire Record Office call numbers: P188/3116/1/1-2, P188/3116/2/1-3, P188/3176, P188/3116/3, P188/3116/8,  P188/6127/1-3.

Bishop's transcripts for Prestbury, Chelford, Adlingron, Saltersford-cum-Kettleshulme, 1596-1858

Includes records of Chelford, Adlington, and Saltersford-cum- Kettleshulme Chapels. Cheshire Record Office call number: EDB 172.

Further material for this parish can be found in the FamilySearch Catalog.

Non-Conformist Churches
Kettleshulme, Methodist Chapel (Wesleyan). Built in 1815, rebuilt in 1901. Registers 1808–1836 are at the Cheshire Record Office.

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

 * Macclesfield (1837–1998)
 * Cheshire East (1998+)

Poor Law Unions

 * 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
Saltersford (see Rainow) on GENUKI