Tintwistle, Cheshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
TINTWISTLE, is a village, a township, and a chapelry, in Mottram parish, Cheshire. The village stands 1 mile NW of Hadfield railway station, and 5 miles E of Stalybridge: and has a post-office under Manchester. The township includes Arnfield hamlet: includes also, for poor-rate purposes, Micklehurst hamlet. The church was built in 1837. There are Independent and Wesleyan chapels.

Church records
Tintwistle Christ Church parish 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.

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

Parish registers: Cheshire Record Office no.: P205/1-4, P205/4541/1-3.

Bishop's transcripts: Cheshire Record Office no.: EDB 204

Non Conformist Churches

 * Independent/Congregational
 * Methodist New Connexion
 * The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
 * Wesleyan Methodist
 * Wesleyan Methodist Association.

Non-Conformist records:


 * 1671-1900 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)

Tintwistle Chapel (Cheshire: Independent) RG-4 series nos. 3533, 2153.

Church records for the Wesleyan Methodist Church, Tintwistle, 1839-1966:Microfilm copy of original registers filmed at the Manchester Archives Central Library in Manchester, England.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Tintwistle Branch Record of members, 1842-1857: 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

 * Ashton under Lyne (1837-1937)
 * Hyde (1937-74)
 * High Peak (1974+)

Poor Law Unions

 * Ashton under Lyne

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
Tintwistle on GENUKI