County Resources
Cheshire
Shelf Mark: CH
For an explanation of this information, please consult the Introduction and the list of Abbreviations. Recent additions to the Society's Library are listed in the Genealogists' Magazine. The staff of the Society are able to make limited searches in these County Sources for a standard fee. Shelf marks used in the library are given in square brackets at the very end of each title.
County-wide sources:
- General Registers
- Marriage Licences
- Monumental Inscriptions
- Censuses
- Directories & Poll Books
- Periodicals
- Wills
- Parishes: A-C | D-J | K-R | S-Z
County wide sources for Christenings, Marriages and Burials for Cheshire include:
County sources at the Society of Genealogists: Cheshire, Lancashire & the Isle of Man parish registers, nonconformist registers, marriage licences, monumental inscriptions, by Taylor, Neville. London: SoG, 2001 [ML enquiry counter] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.
National index of parish registers, vol. 10, part 1: Cheshire, compiled by Webb, Cliff. London : SoG, 1995 [TB/PR] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.
Cheshire parish registers: a summary guide. 4th edn., by Langston, B [CH/R 43]
Index to Cheshire parish registers & transcripts [Typescript.] [CH/R 1]
A list of Bishop's transcripts for Cheshire [Typescript.] [Box 9/folder 23]
Registers in the Local Studies Unit of Manchester Central Library [LA/G 66]
Boyd’s marriage index 1538-c.1837 [Typescript]. [UK/REG] Most of this marriage index is also available on-line to members via MySoG or at findmypast website.
International Genealogical Index & addendum [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff] & available on-line at Family Search.
British Vital Records Index [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff]
National Burial Index. 2nd edn. [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff]
RG 7 Fleet marriage register indexes [parishes, brides & grooms] [SP/REG]
Quaker digest registers of births, marriages & burials - Cheshire & Staffordshire Quarterly Meeting: Z 1648-1837 & 1776-1837, M 1655-1837 & 1688-1776, B 1655-1837 & 1776-1837 [Microfilm.] [Mf 3376]
Quaker digest registers of births, marriages & burials - Lancashire Quarterly Meeting: Z 1644-1837 & 1635-1780, M 1652-1837 & 1652-1775, B 1654-1838 & 1654-1780 (includes Runcorn, Great Budworth, Latchford in Grappenhall, Birkenhead, Chester & Wallasey, Cheshire) [Microfilm.] [Mf 3378]
An extract of Shropshire marriages from the Digest of Registers 1657-1836 of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), Hereford, Worcester & Wales General Meeting & Supplement ... 1655-1837, Cheshire & Staffordshire Meeting [Computer printout.] [Box 55/folder 39]
Bertram Merrell's marriage index of Cheshire 1700-1837 & Hartley Jones marriage index of the Wirral 1580-1850 version 3.0 [CD-ROM.] [CD-ROM cabinet]
Cheshire & Lancashire parish register & monumental inscription transcripts from the Norman Collection [Microfilm.] [Mf 2844]
Strays from Clwyd, vol. 1: M(I) 1754-1812 & vol. 2: M(I) 1561-1949: Welsh registers, vol. 17 [WS/R 210]
Marriage licences: abstracts & indexes in the Library of the Society of Genealogists. London: SoG, 1991. 4th edn. [ML enquiry counter] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.
Faculty Office marriage licences index 1701-1850 [Typescript.] [ML/FO] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or available on-line to members via MySoG or at findmypast website.
Vicar-General marriage licences surname index 1694-1850 [Typescript.] [ML/VG] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or is available on-line to members via MySoG or at findmypast website.
16th century marriages (1538-1600) [Store A (UK/REG)]
Marriage licences granted within the Archdeaconry of Chester in the Diocese of Chester, vols. 1-8: 1606-32, 1639-44, 1661-1700: Record Society of Lancashire & Cheshire, vols. 53, 56-57, 61, 65, 69, 73 & 77 [LA/PER]
Marriage Bonds of the ancient Archdeaconry of Chester now preserved at Chester, parts 1-4: 1700-19: Record Society of Lancashire & Cheshire, vols. 82, 85, 97 & 101. [LA/PER]
County wide sources for tombstone inscriptions (MIs) include:
Sources & location of Cheshire memorial inscriptions [Microfiche.] [CH/MI/84325/1]
"Buried in Cheshire?": master index of Cheshire monumental inscriptions, vols. 1-3 [Microfiche.] [CH/MI/101898/1-5], [CH/MI/101899/1-5] & [CH/MI/108523/1-3]
Calendar of persons commemorated in monumental inscriptions & of abstracts of wills, administrations etc., contained in books relating to Lancashire & Cheshire: Record Society of Lancashire & Cheshire, vol. 76 [LA/PER]
Calendar of persons commemorated in monumental inscriptions & of abstracts of wills, administrations etc. [1322-1844], contained in books relating to Lancashire & Cheshire, with extensive MS additions in revision to the Record Society of Lancashire & Cheshire, vol. 76 [CH/M 1]
Cheshire & Lancashire parish register & monumental inscription transcripts from the Norman Collection (including index to Prestbury MIs A - Chetham, but otherwise of only tentative or uncertain locations) [Microfilm.] [Mf 2844]
The Monumental brasses of Cheshire: Monumental Brass Society County series, vol. 5 [CH/M 23]
The monumental brasses of Lancashire & Cheshire with some account of the persons represented [LA/M 14]
In addition to free access from within the library to census returns and indexes on various subscription web sites, the Society holds many locally produced indexes. The latter are essential where an Internet index has mis-transcribed a name which you are looking for and for surviving pre-1841 censuses and census substitutes.
Search the on-line catalogue for the following Subject phrase:
CHESHIRE - CENSUSES
Click on the green Go button and then on the subject term for the required census.
The Society’s collection is of national importance and includes county and local directories of residents and businesses and poll books and other lists of voters in parliamentary and local elections. Details, correct as of 1995, are published in:
Directories & poll books, including almanacs & electoral rolls, in the Library of the Society of Genealogists. London: SoG, 1995. 6th edn. [ML enquiry counters] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.
Or search the on-line catalogue for the following Subject phrase:
CHESHIRE - DIRECTORIES
or CHESHIRE - POLL BOOKS
Click on the green Go button and then on the subject term required.
The Society holds the journals of most English-speaking family history societies world-wide, the publications of county record societies and many national and local history societies past and present.
Search the on-line catalogue for the Title required
The Library contains film copies of indexes to wills proved 1858-1930 and indexes, calendars and many abstracts of wills proved by individual church courts before 1858. Details, correct as of 1996, are published in:
Will indexes & other probate material in the library of the Society of Genealogists. London: SoG, 1996 [WILLS/GEN] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.
Other major sources include:
An index to the wills proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury 1750-1800 [WILLS/PCC] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or available on-line to members via MySoG or at findmypast website. An index to all PCC wills 1384-1858 is available on-line at The National Archive web site
Estate Duty will indexes 1796-1857 (IR 27/1-323) [Microfilm] [Wills film cabinets] The Death Duty registers 1796-1903 are also on-line at findmypast.com
An index to the Bank of England will extracts 1807-45 [WILLS/GEN] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or available on-line to members via MySoG or at findmypast website.
For the most up-to-date list of will material in the library, do a Subject search on the on-line catalogue for the name of the church court eg. Biggleswade Peculiar Court
Or if you do not know the name of the church court:
Search the on-line catalogue for the following Subject phrase:
CHESHIRE - GENERAL:WILLS
Click on the green Go button and then on the subject term required.
SOGCAT On-line
CatalogueThe Society has material on the following and other places in the county of Cheshire. For details please click on the link to the on-line catalogue and do a Subject search for the place name.
Acton | Adlington | Alderley, Nether | Alderley, Over | Aldford | Alsager | Antrobus | Appleton Thorn | Ashley by Bowdon | Ashton upon Mersey | Ashton Hayes | Astbury | Aston | Aston by Sutton | Backford | Barnston | Barnton | Barrow | Barthomley | Bebington | Bebington, Higher | Bidston | Birkenhead | Bollington | Bosley | Bowdon | Bramhall | Bredbury | Brereton | Brighton, New | Bromborough | Bruera | Budworth, Great | Budworth. Little | Bunbury | Burton | Burwardsley | Byley | Capenhurst | Capesthorne | Carrington | Castle Northwich | Chadkirk | Cheadle | Cheadle Hulme | Chelford | Chester | Chorley | Christleton | Church Lawton | Church Hulme | Church Minshull | Claughton | Coddington | Compstall | Congleton | Coppenhall | Crewe | Crewe Green | Crowton
The Society has material on the following and other places in the county of Cheshire. For details please click on the link to the on-line catalogue and do a Subject search for the place name.
Dane Bridge | Daresbury | Davenham | Delamere | Disley | Dodleston | Duddon | Dukinfield | Dunham Massey | Eastham | Eaton | Eccleston | Egremont | Elworth | Englesea Brook | Ettiley Heath | Farndon | Ferry, New | Frankby | Frodsham | Gatley | Gawsworth | Goostrey | Grappenhall | Guilden Sutton | Halton | Handley | Hargrave | Hartford | Harthill | Haslington | Hazel Grove | Heaton Norris | Heaton Mersey | Hemstall | Henbury | Heswall | Holmes Chapel | Hoole | Hoose | Hoylake | Hurdsfield | Huxley | Hyde | Ince | Jarwin
The Society has material on the following and other places in the county of Cheshire. For details please click on the link to the on-line catalogue and do a Subject search for the place name.
Kelsall | Kingsley | Kirby, West | Knutsford | Lach Dennis | Lache cum Saltney | Latchford | Leigh, Little | Lindow | Liscard | Lostock Gralam | Lymm | Macclesfield | Macclesfield Forest | Malpas | Marbury | Marple | Marple Bridge | Marple, Low | Marston | Marton | Mickle Trafford | Middlewich | Minshull Vernon | Mobberley | Moreton | Mottram | Mottram Common | Mottram in Longendale | Nantwich | Neston | Norbury | Norley | Northenden | Odd Rode | Over | Overchurch | Oxton | Partington | Peover, Lower | Peover, Over | Plemstall | Pott Shrigley | Poynton | Prestbury | Pulford | Rainow | Ringway | Rock Ferry | Rode, North | Romily | Rostherne with Bollington | Runcorn
The Society has material on the following and other places in the county of Cheshire. For details please click on the link to the on-line catalogue and do a Subject search for the place name.
Sale | Saltersford | Sandbach | Saughall | Shocklach | Shotwick | Siddington | Snelson | Spital Boughton | Staley | Stalybridge | Stoak | Stockport | Stockton Heath | Stretton | Sutton | Sutton, Great | Swettenham | Tarporley | Tarvin | Tattenhall | Taxal | Thelwall | Thornton Haugh | Thornton le Moors | Theapwood | Thurstaston | Tilston | Tilstone Fearnall | Timperley | Tintwistle | Toft | Tranmere | Upton | Upton in Overchurch | Wallasey | Walton | Warburton | Warford, Great | Warmingham | Waverton | Weaver | Weaverham | Werneth | Weston in Runcorn | Wheelock | Whitegate | Whitely, Lower | Wildboarclough | Willaston | Willington, Lower | Wilmslow | Wincle | Winsford | Wirral | Wistaston | Withington, Lower | Witton | Woodchurch | Woodford | Woodhead | Worleston | Wrenburt | Wybunbury
