Macclesfield, St Peter, Cheshire Genealogy
Guide to Macclesfield St Peter, Cheshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
Macclesfield, St Peter, Cheshire | |
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![]() Church of St Peter Macclesfield | |
Type | Ecclesiastical Parish |
Civil Jurisdictions | |
Hundred | Macclesfield; Wirrall |
County | Cheshire, England Genealogy |
Poor Law Union | Macclesfield |
Registration District | Macclesfield |
Records begin | |
Parish registers: 1846 | |
Bishop's Transcripts: 1874 | |
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
Rural Deanery | Macclesfield |
Diocese | Pre-1541 - Lichfield and Coventry; Post-1540 - Chester |
Province | Canterbury |
Legal Jurisdictions | |
Probate Court | Pre-1541 - Court of the Bishop of Lichfield (Episcopal Consistory) Post-1540 - Court of the Bishop of Cheshire (Episcopal Consistory) |
Location of Archive | |
Cheshire Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
Macclesfield, is a market-town, parochial chapelry, and newly-enfranchised borough, having a separate jurisdiction, it is locally in the parish of Prestbury, and hundred of Macclesfield, and the head of a union, in the Northern division of the county of Chester. The town is pleasantly situated near the southern extremity of the forest.
The parochial chapelry consists of the nine townships ofHurdsfield, Kettleshulme,Macclesfield, Macclesfield Forest, Pott-Shrigley, Rainow, Sutton, Wildboarclough, and Wincle. The parochial chapel, dedicated to St. Michael, and is dependent on the mother church at Prestbury.
Christchurch, was erected in 1775, at the expense of Charles Roe.
St. George's church, in Sutton, was erected as a dissenters' place of worship, the same township contains a church dedicated to St. James. In the year 1844, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners endowed two church districts St. Paul's and St. Peter's, Macclesfield, and the districts then became ecclesiastical parishes. There are places of worship for the Society of Friends, Independents, Primitive Methodists, Socinians, and Roman Catholics.[1]
Resources[edit | edit source]
Census records[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
Church records[edit | edit source]
Macclesfield, St Peter chapelry registers of christenings, marriages and burials have been indexed by the following groups:
FS PR's =FamilySearch Parish Registers | |||||
FS BT's =FamilySearch Bishops Transcripts |
Macclesfield, St Peter chapelry (1846) Online Records | ||||||
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FS PR's | 1846-1909 |
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1849-1934 |
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1849-1912 |
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FS BT'S | 1874-1876 |
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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.
Here is a list of parish registers on microfilm at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City.
Parish registers for St. Peter's Church, Macclesfield, 1846-1947 Cheshire Record Office call no.: P187/1/1-3, P187/2/1-5, P187/3/1-2.
Parish Registers: St. Peter's Church, Macclesfield | Film |
Baptisms, 1846-1919. Marriages, 1849-1890. |
2106063 Items 3 - 7 |
Marriages, 1890-1937. Burials, 1849-1912, 1929, 1941, 1947. |
2106064 Items 1 - 6 |
Bishop's transcripts for St. Peter's Church, Macclesfield, 1874-1876 Cheshire Record Office: EDB 139
Bishops Transcripts: St. Peter's Church, Macclesfield | Film |
Baptisms, 1875, 1874, 1876. |
1647520 Item 3 |
Non-Conformist Churches[edit | edit source]
- 1600s-1910 Cheshire Non-Conformist & Roman Catholic Registers (Baptism) 17th Century-1910 at FindMyPast ($); index and images (dates may vary by parish)
- 1600s-1910 Cheshire Non-Conformist & Roman Catholic Registers (Marriages) 17th Century-1910 at FindMyPast ($); index and images (dates may vary by parish)
- 1600s-1910 Cheshire Non-Conformist & Roman Catholic Registers (Burials) 17th Century-1910 at FindMyPast ($); index and images (dates may vary by parish)
- Society of Friends
- Independents
- Primitive Methodists
- Socinians
- Roman Catholics
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
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:
Registration Districts[edit | edit source]
- Macclesfield (1837-1998)
Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]
- Macclesfield
Probate records[edit | edit source]
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.
Maps and Gazetteers[edit | edit source]
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place
Websites[edit | edit source]
Macclesfield St Peter on GENUKI
Macclesfield on GENUKI
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848). Date Accessed: 26 March 2013.