Pulford, Cheshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
In 1848 - PULFORD (St. Mary), is a parish, in the union of Great Boughton, Lower division of the hundred of Broxton, S. division of the county of Chester; containing, with Poulton township, it is 5¼ miles SSW from Chester. The parish is situated on the road from Chester to Wrexham, and bounded by the Pulford brook, which separates this part of the county from Denbighshire. Here is a station of the Chester and Ruabon railway.

Pulford St Mary the Virgin is an Ancient Parish and includes Poulton and Cuckoo's Nest.

Pulford is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It is believed that the name of the village is derived from the Welsh words "Pwll" (pool) and "Ffordd" (road). However, the current Welsh name for the village is Porffordd.

A church on the site can be traced back to the 12th century and the first Rector is mentioned in ancient records as Hugo.

Church Records
Pulford St Mary 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.

Pulford, St. Mary the Virgin (C of E) was the ancient parish church for the townships of Poulton (near Chester) and Pulford.

The following records are deposited at the Cheshire Record Office:


 * Registers of baptisms 1559–1884, marriages 1559–1836 and burials 1574–1956, CRO call number: P101/1/1-4, 2, 3/1-2, 4-5.
 * Bishop's transcripts, 1599-1910, CRO number: EDB/173.

The following records have been microfilmed and are available at the Family History Center in Salt Lake City:

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
Here is a list of the districts that have included Pulford since 1837, with dates of inclusion:


 * Great Boughton (1837–69)
 * Chester (1870–1937)
 * West Cheshire (1937–74)
 * Chester and Ellesmere Port (1974–98)
 * Cheshire West (post 1998)

Poor Law Unions

 * Great Boughton (1837–53) Tarvin (previously Great Boughton) Poor Law Union, Cheshire
 * Hawarden Poor Law Union(1853–71)
 * Chester Poor Law Union (1871–1930)

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. Here are good sources for maps on-line:


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Pulford on GENUKI


 * Pulford War Memorial at Clwyd FHS