Tilstone Fearnall, Cheshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
TILSTON-FEARNALL, is a township and a chapelry in Bunbury parish, Cheshire. The township lies 1 mile NE of Beeston railway station, and 2 SSE of Tarporley. The chapelry was constituted in 1837. The post town is Tarporley. The church was built in 1836.

Tilstone Fearnall St Jude is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Cheshire, created in 1837 from chapelry in Bunbury, Cheshire Ancient Parish.

Tilstone Fearnall was a township in Bunbury Parish, Eddisbury Hundred, which became a civil parish in 1866 and included the hamlets of Stages Platt and Tilstone Bank.

Tilstone Fearnall is a civil parish in the Borough of Cheshire West and Chester and ceremonial county of Cheshire in England.

Church Records
Tilstone Fearnall St Jude parish 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.

Non Conformist Churches

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

 * Nantwich (1837–92)
 * Chester (1892–1937)
 * West Cheshire (1937–74)
 * Chester and Ellesmere Port (1974–98)
 * Cheshire West (post 1998)

Poor Law Unions
Nantwich Poor Law Union

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

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
Tilstone Fearnall on GENUKI