North Rode, Cheshire Genealogy

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North Rode

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

North Rode, Cheshire
North Rode St Michael
Type	Ecclesiastical Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
Hundred	Macclesfield
County	Cheshire
Poor Law Union	Macclesfield
Registration District	Macclesfield
Records begin
Parish registers: 1846
Bishop's Transcripts: 1846
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

Parish History

RODE (North) is a township-chapelry in Prestbury parish, Cheshire; on the River Dane, and on the North Staffordshire railway, at the junction of the Churnet Valley Railway, it is 4¾ miles S by W of Macclesfield. The church was built in 1846.

North Rode St. Michael's became a parish Including the hamlets of Ethels Green and Rode Heath. It was created within the Ancient parish of Prestbury, Cheshire, The church in North Rode was built in 1845 by C. & J. Trubshaw.

BIGOT held many estates before it passed into the hands of the lords of Aldford.

Resources

Census records

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

North Rode St Michael 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

North Rode St Michael Parish (1820) Online Records
	Baptisms		Marriages		Burials
	Indexes	Images	Indexes	Images	Indexes	Images
FS PR's	1820-1865	NONE	NONE	NONE	NONE	NONE
FS BT'S	1846-1889	NONE	NONE	NONE	1886-1889	NONE

North Rode, St. Michael (C of E). The parish church for North Rode since 1846. Registers of Baptisms and Burials 1846–2004 have been deposited at the Cheshire Record Office. Later registers (including Marriages from 1846) are still at the church.

Bishop's Transcripts Chapelry (later a parish) in Prestbury parish. Cheshire Record Office Reference: EDB 159 Baptisms, 1846-1847, burials, 1846, baptisms, burials, 1847-1848, baptisms, 1849-1850, burials, 1849-1853, baptisms, 1851-1853, burials, 1854-1861, baptisms, 1854-1861, baptisms, burials, 1879-1889. FHL BRITISH Film 1647668 Item 1

Non-Conformist Churches

None

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

• Macclesfield (1837–98)
• Cheshire East (post 1998)

Registration events may be searched online at Cheshire BMD

Poor Law Unions

• Macclesfield Poor Law Union, Cheshire

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.

• England Jurisdictions 1851
• Vision of Britain

Websites

North Rode on GENUKI

Family History Library