Moreton, Cheshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
MORETON, with Lingham, a township, in the parish of Bidston, union, and Lower division of the hundred, of Wirral, S. division of the county of Chester, 4 miles W by N from Birkenhead.

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

At one time Moreton was a chapelry in the parish of Bidston. The church is known as Christ Church.

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

Parish registers for Moreton, 1863-1954, Cheshire Record Office no.: P156/1/1-3, P156/2/1-3.

Bishop's transcripts for Moreton, 1863-1894, Cheshire Record Office: EDB 149

Non-Conformist Churches

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)
 * 1671-1900 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)


 * Roman Catholic

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 (1837-1928)

Poor Law Unions

 * Wirral (1836-1928)

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.