King's Marsh, Cheshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
KINGSMARSH, is an extra-parochial liberty, in the union of Great Boughton, the higher division of the hundred of Broxton, S. division of the county of Chester, it is 5½ miles (N. W.) from Malpas. The Dee river lies on the west.

Kingsmarsh is an extra parochial place in Cheshire with few human inhabitants.

It has been a civil parish in West Cheshire since 1858 and is the Broxbourne hundred.

Church records
King's Marsh extra-parochial no records.

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
None
 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images

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

 * Great Boughton (1837-69)
 * Chester (1870-1937)
 * West Cheshire (1937-74)
 * Chester &amp; Ellesmere Port (1974-98)
 * Cheshire West (1998-2007)

Poor Law Unions

 * Great Boughton (1837-71)
 * Chester (1871-1930)

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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
King's Marsh on GENUKI