Whitchurch, Cheshire Genealogy

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

For more information and records, see Whitchurch, Shropshire.

Parish History
WHITCHURCH, is a town in Shropshire, a parish partly also in Cheshire , a district partly likewise in Flint , but all registration-ally in Shropshire, and a division electorally in Shropshire. The town stands at the terminus of a short branch of the Ellesmere Canal, and at the junction of the railways from Shrewsbury and Oswestry to Crewe, 19 miles N by E of Shrewsbury; was anciently called Blancminster; and has a head post-office, there is a railway station, and four dissenting chapels. The parish includes 12 townships in Shropshire, and one in Cheshire. In the diocese of Lichfield.

Whitchurch is an Ancient Parish, mostly in Shropshire and partly in Cheshire. The parish church for Whitchurch, Cheshire is Marbury, Cheshire

The former chapelry in the Ancient parish of Whitchurch, Shropshire serves the parish.

Marbury cum Quoisley includes Norbury near Malpas and Whitchurch, Cheshire

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Church Records
The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor. Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

Church of England
Due to the increasing access of online records: Hover over the collection's title for more information Other Websites These databases have incomplete parish coverage.
 * Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
 * Dates in the following table are approximate
 * Joiner Marriage Index - Cheshire ($)
 * The Genealogist Parish Registers - Cheshire ($)
 * UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at Findmypast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)
 * 1671-1900 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)


 * Primitive Methodist
 * Wesleyan Methodist

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 (1837–53)
 * Whitchurch (1853–1937)
 * Crewe (1937–74)
 * Congleton and Crewe (1974–88)
 * South Cheshire (1988–98)
 * South Cheshire (post 1998) The post 2009 reorganisation of civil registration can be found online at Cheshire BMD.

Poor Law Unions

 * Nantwich Poor Law Union(1837–53)
 * Whitchurch Incorporation Poor Law Union, Shropshire(1853-1930)

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
Whitchurch (Shropshire) on GENUKI