Stretton, Cheshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
Stretton has been described in two ways so I will give both of them both are from "A Topographical Dictionary of England":

STRETTON, a township, in the parish of Tilston, union of Great Boughton, Higher division of the hundred of Broxton, S. division of the county of Chester, 4½ miles NW by N from Malpas.

STRETTON, a township, in the parish of Great Budworth, union of Runcorn, hundred of Bucklow, N. division of the county of Chester, 3½ miles S by E from Warrington. The church was erected in 1827.

Stretton St Michael is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Cheshire, created in 1830 from chapelry in Great Budworth, Cheshire Ancient Parish.

Stretton is a village and civil parish in Cheshire, England not far from Warrington. The parish includes the village of Lower Stretton. It is at the very southern tip of Warrington, about seven miles south of the town centre.

There are two villages called Stretton in Cheshire, the village near Malpas lies in Tilston, Cheshire parish.

St Matthew's Church, Stretton is in the village of Stretton, Cheshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester and the deanery of Great Budworth. Its benefice is combined with that of St Cross, Appleton Thorn.

The village of Stretton was owned by the Starkey family and it is likely that there was a chapel was during the 13th or 14th century. In a will dated 1527 the chapel is referred to as the Oratory of St Saviour. In Leycester's history of Cheshire it is stated that in 1666 the "ancient chapel of Stretton" was "ruinous and in decay". In 1826–27 a Commissioners' Church was built as a chapel of ease to Great Budworth.

Church Records
Stretton St Matthew parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials have been indexed by the following groups:

Parish registers for Stretton, 1827-1960 The chapelry of Stretton is in the parish of Great Budworth. Cheshire Record Office reference: P240/1-3, P240/1/3, P240/3/2.

Bishop's transcripts for Stretton, 1827-1899 Chapelry (later a parish) in Great Budworth parish. Includes Appleton. Cheshire Record Office reference: EDB 191

An index for Cheshire, Church of England, Bishop’s Transcripts (Diocese of Chester) is available online in FamilySearch Historical Records

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

 * Runcorn (1837–1974)
 * Warrington (post 1974)

Poor Law Unions

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


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Stretton (near Malpas) on GENUKI

Stretton (near Runcorn) on GENUKI