Ashley, Cheshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
ASHLEY, a township, in the parish of Bowdon, union of Altrincham, hundred of Bucklow, N. division of Cheshire, 5 miles (N. N. E.) from Knutsford.

Ashley St Elizabeth was a township in Bowdon but began a parish in 1881.

Church Records
Parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials have been indexed by the following groups:

Ashley St Elizabeth was a township in Bowdon, created a parish in 1881.

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

Parish registers for Ashley, 1880-1969 Cheshire Record Office no.: P243/1.

Bishop's transcripts for Ashley, 1880-1909 Cheshire Record Office: EDB 8

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

 * Altrincham (1837-98)
 * Bucklow (1898-1974)
 * Macclesfield (1974-98)
 * Cheshire East (1998-2007)
 * Cheshire (2007-09)
 * Cheshire East (2009+)

Poor Law Unions

 * Altrincham (1836-95)
 * Bucklow (1895-1930)

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