Oughtrington, Cheshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
OUGHTRINGTON, a hamlet in Lymm parish, Cheshire, on the Bridgewater Canal, 5½ miles WSW of Altrincham.

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

Oughtrington was a hamlet in Lymm parish. Built in 1872 as a chapel to Lymm: St. Mary the Virgin, Parish for part of Lymm in 1881.

Here is a list of parish registers on microfilm at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. Parish registers of St. Peter's Church, Oughtrington, 1872-1938. Cheshire Record Office call no.: P237/4964/1-3, 5-7.

Bishop's transcripts for St. Peter's Church, Oughtrington, 1872-1901. Cheshire Record Office: EDB 161

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

 * Altrincham (1837-98)
 * Bucklow (1898-1974)
 * Warrington (1974+)

Poor Law Unions

 * Altrincham (1836-95)
 * Bucklow (1895-1930)

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.