Willaston, Cheshire Genealogy
Guide to Willaston, Cheshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
Willaston, Cheshire | |
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Type | England Jurisdictions |
Civil Jurisdictions | |
Hundred | Wirrall |
County | Cheshire, England Genealogy |
Poor Law Union | Wirral |
Registration District | Wirrall |
Records begin | |
Parish registers: 1559 | |
Bishop's Transcripts: 1581 | |
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
Rural Deanery | Wirral |
Diocese | Pre-1541 - Lichfield and Coventry; Post-1540 - Chester |
Province | York |
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]
WILLASTON, a township, in the parish of Neston, union, and Higher division of the hundred, of Wirral, S. division of the county of Chester, 2¾ miles E from Great Neston. [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]
Willaston Chapelry near Great Neston, registers of christenings, marriages and burials have online indexes by the following groups:
CPR = Cheshire Parish Register Project - free[2] | |||||
FS PR's =FamilySearch Parish Registers | |||||
FS BT's = FamilySearch Bishops Transcripts |
Willaston Christ Church Parish (1865) Online Records | ||||||
Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
CPR | Undefined | Undefined | Undefined | |||
FS PR's | 1862-1909 | NONE |
1865-1934 |
NONE |
1865-1933 |
NONE |
FS BT's |
NONE |
NONE |
NONE |
NONE |
1892-1894 |
NONE |
Willaston was a chapelry in the parish of Neston. The chapel is Christ Church.
Here is a list of parish registers on microfilm at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City.
Parish registers of Willaston, near Great Neston, 1865-1944 Cheshire Record Office no.: P180/1/1-2, P180/2/1-4, P180/3.
Parish Registers: Parish registers of Willaston, near Great Neston | Film |
Baptisms 1865-1902. Marriages 1865-1924. |
1656757 Items 13 - 14 |
Burials 1865-1933. |
1656758 Item 1 |
Baptisms, 1902-1944. Marriages, 1924-1944. |
2197435 Items 1 - 4 |
Bishop's transcripts for Willaston, 1892-1894 Cheshire Record Office: EDB 220
Bishops Transcripts: Bishop's transcripts for Willaston |
Film |
Baptisms, burials, 1892-1894. |
1647761 Item 2 |
Non-Conformist Churches[edit | edit source]
- 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images
- 1671-1900 England, Cheshire Non-conformist Records, 1671-1900 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)
- Primitive Methodists
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]
- Wirral (1837-1974)
- Chester & Ellesmere Port (1974-98)
- Cheshire West (1998-2007)
- Cheshire (2007-09)
- Cheshire West & Chester (2009+)
Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]
- Wirral
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]
See a gazetteer description of Adlington at Vision of Britain.
Websites[edit | edit source]
Wiiaston (near Neston) on GENUKI
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 577-5Date accessed: 17 January 2014.
- ↑ 'CPR Project Progress (As on 17 January 2014),' Cheshire Parish Register Project, accessed 1 February 2014.