Goostrey, Cheshire Genealogy

England Cheshire  Goostrey

History
Goostrey St Luke was created as a parish in 1724 from the chapelry of Goostrey cum Barnshaw within the ancient parish of Sandbach.

The parish of Goostrey is first mentioned in the Domesday Book and a church or chapel was present by 1244. By 1617 a timber-framed chapel was present on the site which consisted of a nave and a chancel with a south aisle belonging to the Booths of Twemlow. In 1667 another south aisle was constructed for Edmund Jodrell and this was enlarged in 1711. In 1792 this chapel was demolished and the present church built between 1792 and 1796.

St Luke's Church, a Church of England church, was built before 1220, but it was not until 1350 that the mother church of Sandbach allowed burials here. The parishioners of Goostrey frequently found the way to Sandbach impassable because of floods and must have rejoiced when the five mile (8 km) journey across the Rivers Dane and Croco was no longer necessary. The old church was timber framed, as Marton still is today, but all that remains from the Middle Ages of that church is the fifteenth century font.

Church Records
Goostry-with-Barnshaw is a chapelry in Sandbach parish. The following records are deposited at the Cheshire Record Office:


 * Parish registers for, 1561-1964. CRO call number: P124/1/1-4, 2/1-2, 3/1-2, 4/1-2.
 * Bishop's transcripts, 1576-1860. CRO call no.: EDB 95.

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

Non-Conformist Churches
Goostrey, Methodist Chapel (Wesleyan). Built in 1875 and enlarged in 1930. Records are deposited at the Cheshire Record Office. Minutes and accounts, 1875-1975, 3 volumes. CRO Document Reference EMS 186. The records are also available at the National Archives in London, http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=017-ems186&amp;cid=0.

Poor Law Unions

 * Congleton

Registration Districts

 * Crewe (1937–74)
 * Congleton and Crewe (1974–88)
 * South Cheshire (1988–98)
 * Cheshire East (1998+)