Claughton, Cheshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
Claughton (pronounced /ˈklɔːtən/ "Clawton") is a residential district in Birkenhead, on the Wirral Peninsula, Merseyside, England. Before local government reorganisation on 1 April 1974, it was part of the County Borough of Birkenhead, within the geographical county of Cheshire.

Claughton cum Grange was a township in Bidston Parish, Wirral Hundred which became a civil parish in 1866. In 1898 the whole of Claughton cum Grange was added to Birkenhead. It included the hamlets of Birkenhead Park and Flaybrick.

Most of Claughton cum Grange was within the parish of Bidston, Cheshire a small part in Woodchurch, Cheshire

CLAUGHTON, with Grange, a township, in the union, and Lower division of the hundred, of Wirrall, S. division of Cheshire. A meeting-house for the Society of Friends has been erected on this property. Several churches, have also been raised.

Church Records
Claughton Christ Church was a parish in 18766 from Bidston, Birkenhead St James and Oxton.

Claughton cum Grange St Michael was created a parish in 1912 brom Claughton Christ Church and Tranmere.

The Parish registers for Claughton-cum-Grange, 1681-1992 Microfilm of original records in the Cheshire Record Office, Cheshire Record Office: P72/1/1-2, P72/2/1-6.

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

 * Wirral (1837-61)
 * Birkenhead (1861-98)

Poor Law Unions
Wirral Poor Law Union, Cheshire

Birkenhead Poor Law Union, Cheshire

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.