Micklehurst, Cheshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
MICKLEHURST, ahamlet, in the township of Tintwistle, parish of Mottram-in-Longdendale, union of Ashton-under-Lyne, hundred of Macclesfield, N. division of the county of Chester. It consists of a large tract of moorland, purchased in 1845 from John Tollemache, Esq., by the Earl of Stamford and Warrington.

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

Micklehurst All Saints created 1962 from Millbrook, Cheshire and Mossley Lancashire.

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

Parish registers of Micklehurst, 1900-1939. Cheshire Record Office call nos.: P216/1/1-2.

Millbrook was created as an ecclesiastical parish in 1863 from St. Paul's Chapel, Stalybridge. Includes records from All Saints Chapel of Ease, Micklehurst.

Bishop's transcripts for Millbrook, 1873-1898 Cheshire Record Office: EDB 147

Bishop's transcripts for Mobberley; All Saint Chapel, Micklehurst, 1599-1898 Cheshire Record Office no.: EDB/148.

Includes some entries for All Saints Chapel of Ease, Micklehurst.

Micklehurst is in the parish of Mottram-in-Longdendale.

Non-Conformist Churches

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

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

 * Ashton under Lyne (1837-94)

Poor Law Unions

 * Ashton under Lyne

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.