Halton, Cheshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
HALTON, is a village, a township, and a chapelry in Runcorn parish, Cheshire. The village stands on an eminence near the Bridgewater Canal, the Northwestern railway, and the River Mersey, it is 1½ mile SE of Runcorn, and 3 miles NNE of Frodsham; it commands an extensive view along the Mersey; was once a market town; and has a post office under Preston Brook, as well as a railway station. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists.

Halton St Mary the Virgin is an ecclesiastical parish in Cheshire created from Runcorn Ancient Parish.

Halton had formerly been a chapel of ease to the parish church of Runcorn but in June 1860 it became a separate parish.

Castlefields, Christ Church (Ecumenical). Attached to Halton St Mary for C of E services. Registers of Baptisms start in 1974, and are held at Halton St Mary (no marriages or burials here).

Church records
Halton St Mary the Virgin Chapelry 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.

Parish registers for Halton, 1732-1957 Cheshire Record Office call number: P27/1/1, P27/2/1-4, P27/3/1, P27/2632/1-2, P27/3.

Halton was a chapelry in Runcorn parish. The chapelry later became a parish. Here is a list of church records on microfilm at the Family History Library (FHL) in Salt Lake City.

An index for Cheshire parish registers is available online in FamilySearch Historical Records.

Bishop's transcripts for Halton, 1732-1887 Halton was formerly a chapelry in the parish of Runcorn. Cheshire Record Office call number: EDB 100. Baptisms, marriages for 1732-1739 are filmed twice separated with a second title board for item 3.

An index for Cheshire, Church of England, Bishop’s Transcripts is available online in FamilySearch Historical Records

Non-Conformist Churches

 * Halton, Methodist Chapel (Wesleyan). Founded 1818, rebuilt in 1875.
 * Halton, Methodist Chapel (Primitive). Built in 1882.

Non-Conformist Records:

Cheshire Record Office DocumentReference EMS 109 Halton Methodist Chapel Date 19th century - 20th century Various records 1824-1978 URL http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=017-ems109&amp;cid=0

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

 * Runcorn (1837–1974)
 * Halton (post 1974)

Poor Law Unions

 * Runcorn 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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Halton on GENUKI