Bickley, Cheshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
BICKLEY, a township, in the parish of Malpas, union of Nantwich, Higher division of the hundred of Broxton, S. division of the county of Chester, 3½ miles ENE from Malpas. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.

Church records
Bickley St Winefrede parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials have been indexed by the following groups:

Bickley St Winefrede township in Malpas, created a parish in 1893 from Malbad, Marbury, and Wrenbury.

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

Parish registers for Bickley, 1892-1965 Cheshire Record Office: P 228/1-3.

Bishop's transcripts for Bickley, 1892-1894 Cheshire Record Office: EDB 24

Non-Conformist Churches
Not Known
 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

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

 * Nantwich (1837-53)
 * Whitchurch (1853-1937)
 * West Cheshire (1937-74)
 * Chester &amp; Ellesmere Port (1974-98)
 * Cheshire West (1998-2007)
 * Cheshire (2007-09)
 * Cheshire West &amp; Chester (2009+)

Poor Law Unions

 * Nantwich (1837-53)
 * Whitchurch (1853-1930)

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


 * A transcribed copy of probate records for Malpas 1603-1625 can be located in book form The Ancient Parishes of Malpas Tilston and Shocklach

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