Norley, Cheshire Genealogy
Guide to Norley, Cheshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Norley, Cheshire | |
|---|---|
 St John the Evangelist Norley Cheshire | |
| Type | Chapelry |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Eddisbury |
| County | Cheshire |
| Poor Law Union | Runcorn |
| Registration District | Runcorn |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1855; For more records see Frodsham | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1855 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Frodsham |
| 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]
NORLEY, is a township, in the lordship of Kingsley, parish of Frodsham, union of Runcorn, hundred of Eddisbury, and South division of the county of Chester, it is 5 miles SE from Frodsham, on the road to Northwich. A church was erected here in 1832. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.[1]
Norley St John The Evangelist was created from a former chapelry within Frodsham, Cheshire Ancient Parish.
Norley is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It lies to the north of Delamere Forest, near the village of Cuddington.
The parish church of St John the Evangelist stands to the northwest of the village. Its benefice is combined with those of Christ Church, Crowton, and St John the Evangelist, Kingsley.
Resources[edit | edit source]
Census Records[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. 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]
Norley St John the Evangelist parish 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 |
| Norley St John the Evangelist Parish (1855) Online Records | ||||||
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| FS PR's | NONE | NONE |
NONE | NONE |
NONE | NONE |
| FS BT'S | 1855-1898 | NONE |
NONE | NONE |
1887-1899 | NONE |
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 Norley parish registers on microfilm at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City.
Bishop's transcripts: Cheshire Record Office: EDB 157
| Bishop's transcripts for Norley, 1855-1899 | Film |
| Baptisms, 1855-1856, burials, 1887-1890, baptisms, 1887-1890, baptisms, burials, 1891-1895, baptisms, 1896-1898, burials, 1896-1899. |
1647523 Item 2 |
Non Conformist Churches[edit | edit source]
- 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images
- 1600s-1910 Cheshire Non-Conformist & Roman Catholic Registers (Baptism) 17th Century-1910 at FindMyPast ($); index and images (dates may vary by parish)
- 1671-1900 England, Cheshire Non-conformist Records, 1671-1900 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)
- Wesleyan Methodist
- Wesleyan Methodist Association
Wesleyan Methodist records: Cheshire Record Office call no.: EMS 203/1.
| Church records for the Wesleyan Methodist Church, Norley, 1871-1891 | Film |
| Baptisms: 1629-1849 Banns of marriages: 1754, 1761-1769 Marriages: 1629-1786 Burials: 1629-1812 | 2299474 Item 22 |
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]
Runcorn (1837-1934)
Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]
Runcorn Poor Law Union, Cheshire
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.
see also England Cheshire Probate Records - FamilySearch Historical Records
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]
Norley on GENUKI
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848). Date Accessed: 2 April 2013
Contributor: add any relevant sites that aren’t mentioned above.
Bibliography[edit | edit source]
Pevsner, Nikolaus; Edward Hubbard (2003) [1971], The Buildings of England: Cheshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, p. 294, ISBN 0 300 09588 0
