Hooton, Cheshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
HOOTON, a township, in the parish of Eastham, union, and Higher division of the hundred, of Wirral, S. division of the county of Chester, 9 miles N by W from Chester. There is a Roman Catholic chapel.

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

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

Parish registers of Hooton Chapelry, 1862-1954 Cheshire Record Office: P 306/4706/1, 3-5, 8.

Bishop's transcripts for Hooton Chapelry, 1892-1901 Cheshire Record Office no.: EDB 113

Non-Conformist Churches

 * Catholic

Non-Conformists Church Records:
 * 1600s-1910 Cheshire Non-Conformist & Roman Catholic Registers (Baptism) 17th Century-1910 at FindMyPast ($); index and images (dates may vary by parish)
 * 1600s-1910 Cheshire Non-Conformist & Roman Catholic Registers (Burials) 17th Century-1910 at FindMyPast ($); index and images (dates may vary by parish)


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

Church records of Hooton Hall Catholic Chapel, 1805-1849 Cheshire Record Office call no.: ERC 4/5071/1-2.

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 (1837-1937)
 * West Cheshire (1937-50)

Poor Law Unions

 * Wirral

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.