Tushingham, Cheshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
TUSHINGHAM, with Grindley, a township, in the parish of Malpas, union of Nantwich, Higher division of the hundred of Broxton, S. division of the county of Chester, 3½ miles ESE from Malpas.

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

Tushingham-cum-Grindley was founded in 1691 as a chapel to Malpas: St. Oswald, becoming a Parish church 1824.

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

Bishop's transcripts, St. Chad's Church, Tushingham-cum-Grindley, Cheshire, 1861-1872 Cheshire Record Office no.: EDB 207

Non-Conformist Churches

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images
 * Primitive Methodist

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 District

 * Nantwich (1837-53)
 * Whitchurch (1853-1937)
 * West Cheshire (1937-74)
 * Chester & Ellesmere Port (1974-98)
 * Cheshire West (1998-2007)
 * Cheshire (2007-09)
 * Cheshire West & Chester (2009+)

Poor Law Unions

 * Nantwich (1837-53)
 * Whitchurch (1853-1930)

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
See a gazetteer description of Adlington at Vision of Britain.