Pott Shrigley, Cheshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
POTT-SHRIGLEY, is a township-chapelry, with a village, in Prestbury parish, Cheshire; on the Macclesfield Canal, 2 miles E by S of Adlington railway station, and 4 NNE of Macclesfield. The post-town is Bollington, under Macclesfield.

Pott Shrigley, St Christopher is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Cheshire, created in 1719 from chapelry in Prestbury, Cheshire Ancient Parish. It is part of the Macclesfield Arch-Deaconry in the Diocese of Chester.

Pott Shrigley is a rural hamlet The parish covers a lot of ground and outlying farms and cottages can be found as far as three miles away, almost in Higher Poynton. The parish covers an extensive area; outlying farms and cottages can be found as far as three miles away, almost in Higher Poynton.

The church was originally a chapel of ease for the parish of Prestbury. The parish registers for baptisms begin in 1629; burials and marriages were added in 1685. The churchwardens' accounts start in 1833. The silver communion plate includes a paten of 1576, a chalice of 1622, and a flagon, chalice and two patens of 1711.

Church records
Pott Shrigley St Christopher Chapelry registers of christenings, marriages and burials have been indexed by the following groups:

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.

Pott Shrigley, St. Christopher (C of E). An ancient chapelry in Prestbury parish, becoming the parish church for Pott Shrigley in 1880. Registers of Baptisms 1630–1998, Marriages 1685–1751 & 1880–1984 and Burials 1685–1956 have been deposited at the Cheshire Record Office.

Parish registers St Michael Pott Shrigley Microfilm copy of originals at the Cheshire Record Office in Chester, England. Cheshire Record Office reference: P38/1, P38/2/1-2, P38/3, P38/4588/1, P38/4282/1-3, P38/5462/1, P38/4531/16.

Bishop's transcripts for Pott-Shrigley, 1679-1851

Records are not filmed in strict chronological order. Some intermittent years are missing.Cheshire Record Office reference: EDB/170

Additional record sources may be identified in the FamilySearch Catalog

Non-Conformist Churches

 * 1671-1900 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)

Pott Shrigley, Methodist Chapel, Green Close (New Connexion). Built in 1861.

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 (1837–1998)
 * Cheshire East (post 1998)

Poor Law Unions

 * Macclesfield Poor Law Union, Cheshire

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

Websites
Pott Shrigley on GENUKI