Church Minshull, Cheshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
Church Minshull St Bartholomew is an Ancient Parish in Cheshire including Paradise Green, Wood Green, and Wades Green.

St Bartholomew's Church, Church Minshull is in the village of Church Minshull, Cheshire, England. Its benefice is combined with those of St Mary, Acton, Cheshire, St David,  Wettenhall, Cheshire, and St Oswald, Worleston.

Church Minshull is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. The village is located approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) north west of Crewe and to the west of the River Weaver and the Shropshire Union Canal.

MINSHULL, CHURCH (St. Bartholomew), a parish, in the union and hundred of Nantwich, S. division of the county of Chester, 5½ miles (N. by E.) from Nantwich. The parish is situated on the river Weaver. Cheese is made in great quantities. There is a place of worship forIndependents.

Church records
Church Minshull St Bartholomew 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.

Parish registers for Church Minshull, 1561-1983 Cheshire Record Office call number: P12/1/1-2, P12/2/1, P12/3/1-2, P12/4/1, P12/6124/1-2.

An index for Cheshire parish registers is available online at FamilySearch Historical Records.

Bishop's transcripts for Church Minshull, 1605-1898 Cheshire Record Office call number: EDB/67.

An index for Cheshire, Church of England Bishops Transcripts is available at FamilySearch Historical Records.

Non-Conformist Churches
None

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 (1837–1937)
 * Crewe (1937–74)
 * Congleton and Crewe (1974–88)
 * South Cheshire (1988–98)
 * Cheshire Central ( post1998) The post 2009 reorganisation of civil registration can be found online at Cheshire BMD

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
Church Minshull on GENUKI