Hoose, Cheshire Genealogy

England Cheshire  Cheshire Parishes  Hoose

Guide to Hoose, Cheshire family history and genealogy: parish registers (baptism, christening, marriage, and burial records), civil registration (birth, marriage, and death records), census records, history, wills, cemetery, online transcriptions and indexes, an interactive map and websites.

Parish history
HOOSE, or Hoylake, is a village, a township, and a chapelry in West Kirby parish, Cheshire. The village stands on the coast, near the mouth of the Dee estuary, it is 7½ miles W by N of Birkenhead; it has a post office, by the name of Hoylake, under Birkenhead. A roadstead, called Hoylake, originally Hoyle-Lake, is opposite the village. The chapelry was constituted in 1860; and is larger than the township.

Hoose is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Cheshire, created in 1839 from West Kirby Ancient Parish.

Church Records
Hoose parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials have been indexed by the following groups:

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 a nd death indexes available:


 * FreeBMD
 * Cheshire BMD

Registration Districts

 * Wirral (1837–94)

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.