Lindow, Cheshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
Lindow, ecclesiastical district, Wilmslow parish., Cheshire, pop. 680; contains Lindow End, hamlet, 3 miles SW of Wilmslow station.

Church Records
Lindow Parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials have online indexes by the following groups:

Created a parish from Chorley in 1877. A district church for part of Aldelrey Edge from 1894.

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

Bishop's transcripts for Lindow, 1877-1903 Cheshire Record Office no.: EDB 126

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

 * Macclesfield (wholly, 1894-1936; partly 1936-37)
 * Bucklow (partly, 1936-37; wholly, 1937-74)
 * Macclesfield (1974-98)
 * Cheshire East (1998-2007)
 * Cheshire (2007-09)
 * Cheshire East (2009+)

Poor Law Unions

 * Macclesfield (1894-1930)

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

Maps and Gazetteers
See a gazetteer description of Adlington at Vision of Britain.