King's Marsh, Cheshire Genealogy

England Cheshire  Cheshire Parishes  King's Marsh

Guide to King's Marsh, Cheshire family history and genealogy: parish registers (baptism, christening, marriage, and burial records), civil registration (birth, marriage, and death records), census records, history, wills, cemetery, online transcriptions and indexes, an interactive map and websites.

Parish History
KINGSMARSH, is an extra-parochial liberty, in the union of Great Boughton, the higher division of the hundred of Broxton, S. division of the county of Chester, it is 5½ miles (N. W.) from Malpas. The Dee river lies on the west.

King's Marsh is an extra parochial place in Cheshire with few human inhabitants.

It has been a civil parish in West Cheshire since 1858 and is the Broxbourne hundred.

Church records
King's Marsh extra-parochial no records.

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. Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, nonconformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection.

Non-Conformist Churches
None

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 a nd death indexes available:


 * FreeBMD
 * Cheshire BMD

Registration Districts

 * Great Boughton (1837-69)
 * Chester (1870-1937)
 * West Cheshire (1937-74)
 * Chester & Ellesmere Port (1974-98)
 * Cheshire West (1998-2007)

Poor Law Unions

 * Great Boughton (1837-71)
 * Chester (1871-1930)

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


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain