Claughton, Cheshire Genealogy

England Cheshire  Cheshire Parishes Claughton 

Guide to Claughton, 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
Claughton (pronounced /ˈklɔːtən/ "Clawton") is a residential district in Birkenhead, on the Wirral Peninsula, Merseyside, England. It is close to the main shopping area of Birkenhead town centre, and Birkenhead Park is partly located within its boundaries. Administratively, Claughton is a ward of the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral. Before local government reorganisation on 1 April 1974, it was part of the County Borough of Birkenhead, within the geographical county of Cheshire.

Claughton cum Grange was a township in Bidston Parish, Wirral Hundred which became a civil parish in 1866. In 1898 the whole of Claughton cum Grange was added to Birkenhead. It included the hamlets of Birkenhead Park and Flaybrick.

The name is of Viking origin, deriving from the Old Norse Klakkr-tun, meaning "hamlet on a hillock".

Claughton Manor House was built in about 1850 by local benefactor Sir William Jackson, with its gardens designed by Sir Joseph Paxton. It occupied a site between Egerton Road and Manor Hill until it was pulled down in the 1930s.

The Birkenhead Institute was founded in 1889 by a local philanthropist, George Atkin, who established the school as a commercial company with shareholders and directors.Originally situated in Whetstone Lane, Birkenhead, it was later relocated to premises on Tollemache Road, Claughton until its closure and subsequent demolition in the 1990s. Wilfred Owen, the World War I poet attended the school at its original location. A residential road has been named after him on the Tollemache Road site.

Most of Claughton cum Grange was within the parish of Bidston, Cheshire a small part in Woodchurch, Cheshire

Church Records
Claughton Christ Church was a parish in 18766 from Bidston, Birkenhead St James and Oxton.

Claughton cum Grange St Michael was created a parish in 1912 brom Claughton Christ Church and Tranmere.

The Parish registers for Claughton-cum-Grange, 1681-1992 Microfilm of original records in the Cheshire Record Office, Cheshire Record Office: P72/1/1-2, P72/2/1-6.

Non-Conformist Churches
Not Known

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

 * Wirral (1837-61)
 * Birkenhead (1861-98)

Poor Law Unions
Wirral Poor Law Union, Cheshire

Birkenhead 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
See a gazetteer description of Adlington at Vision of Britain.