Alderley, Cheshire Genealogy

[[Image:St_Mary_Alderley.jpg|thumb|right|Alderley St Mary]]History
Alderley, St. Mary (C of E). An ancient parish church, originally serving the townships of Great Warford, Nether Alderley and Over Alderley. Registers of Baptisms 1629–1988, Marriages 1629–1992 and Burials 1629–1942 have been deposited at the Cheshire Record Office, where Bishop's Transcripts survive from 1599.

Alderley, a village, a township, and a parish in Cheshire. The village lies on an affluent of the river Bollin, 6 miles W by NW of Macclesfield. It has a station (Alderley Edge) on the L. &amp; N.W.R., about a mile distant, 14 1/2 miles from Manchester, and 175 from London; also, a post office under Crewe; money order and telegraph office, Chelford. The parish includes the townships of Nether Alderley, Over Alderley, and Great Warford. Acreage of Nether Alderley, 2852 ; population of the civil parish, 517; of the ecclesiastical, 895. Alderley Edge has a height of 650 feet, commands an extensive view, and yields excellent sandstone. Alderley Park is the seat of Lord Stanley of Alderley. The park is extensive and finely wooded, containing some magnificent beech trees and a large lake, called Radnor Mere. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chester; net value, £750. Patron, Lord Stanley of Alderley. The parish church is an ancient stone edifice, and was restored in 1855 and 1878; it contains a fine monument in Caen stone to the first Lord Stanley.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5

Parish Records
Parish registers for Alderley, Cheshire, 1629-1901 Some Latin. Cheshire Record Office call no.: P143/1/1-3, 2/1-2, 3/1-4, 4/1, 5/1.Baptisms, marriages, burials, 1629-1760, banns of marriages, 1754-1761. Baptisms, burials, 1761-1810; marriages, 1761-1786, banns of marriages, 1761-1769. Baptisms, burials, 1811-1812. Baptisms, 1813-1849. FHL BRITISH Film 2147305 Items 9 - 12 Baptisms, 1849-1894. Marriages, 1754-1901. Banns, 1770-1785. Burials, 1813-1861. FHL BRITISH Film 2147322 Items 1 - 7 Bishop's transcripts for Alderley, 1599-1837 Microfilm of original records in the Cheshire Record Office, Chester, England.Cheshire Record Office no.: EDB 2 Baptisms, 1599; Baptisms, marriages, burials, 1600, 1612, 1615, 1619-1620, 1622-1624, 1626-1627, 1630-1631, 1633, 1635, 1633-1637, 1639-1641, 1661-1670, 1669, 1671-1692, 1694, 1697-1711, 1740, 1713, 1712, 1714-1739, 1741-1768, 1770, 1769, 1772, 1771, 1773-1781, 1783, 1782, 1784-1795, 1797-1821. FHL BRITISH Film 1647803 Item 2 Marriages, 1821; Baptisms, marriages, burials, 1822-1837. FHL BRITISH Film 1647804 Item 1

Marriages at Alderley, 1629-1837 Notes IN Cheshire parish registers, marriages. -- Vol. 5, p. [1]-65. -- London : Phillimore, 1914 FHL BRITISH Film 88607 Item 2

The Alderley parish has been transcribed and is available online Cheshire Parish Register project

Alderley, St. Mary (C of E). The ancient parish church for Over Alderley. Wilmslow, St. Bartholomew (C of E). The ancient parish church for Alderley Edge. Refer to Wilmslow for Alderley Edge Birtles, St. Catherine (C of E). The parish church for Over Alderley since 1890.


 * Chorley (Alderley Edge), St. Philip (C of E). Built in 1853 as a chapel to Wilmslow, becoming the parish church for Chorley (near Wilmslow) and Alderley Edge in 1866. Registers of Baptisms 1853–1924 and Marriages 1866–1959 have been deposited at the Cheshire Record Office (no burials here).
 * Lindow, St John the Evangelist (C of E). The parish church for part of Alderley Edge since 1877.

Non-Conformist Records
Over Alderley, Methodist Chapel (New Connexion). Built in 1863.


 * Alderley Edge, St Pius X (Roman Catholic). Built in 1946.
 * Alderley Edge, Baptist Chapel. Brook Lane. Founded 1890.
 * Alderley Edge, Methodist Chapel (Wesleyan). Built in 1863. Registers of baptisms 1863–1979 are at the Cheshire Record Office. Church records for the Alderley Edge Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Chester, 1863-1979

Microfilm of original filmed at the Cheshire Record Office in Chester, England. Alderley-Edge is a locality in Alderley parish. Cheshire Record Office call nos.: EMS 143/4916/1-2. Baptisms, 1863-1979. FHL BRITISH Film 2299417 Items 6 - 7

Church records for the Lindow New Connexion Methodist Chapel, Alderley Edge, 1891-1962 Microfilm of original filmed at the Cheshire Record Office in Chester, England. Alderley-Edge is a locality in Alderley parish. Cheshire Record Office call nos.: EMS 99/4916/1. Baptisms, 1891-1962. FHL BRITISH Film 2299417 Item 8