CHESHIRE LOOK UP EXCHANGE

***!!Volunteers Urgently Needed!!***
Can you help?

Please e-mail Kaye if you are willing to add your name to this list.

This list can only be successful with your generous help and co-operation.

Give the full titles of any reference you are prepared to check. Suitable items would include tax lists, electoral rolls, directories, census indexes, parish registers, memorial inscriptions, etc., etc.

Please advise of any broken or outdated links. Thanks.

The following is a list of reference works on Cheshire which volunteers are willing to search for specific entries. To ask for a look-up, please click on the name by the reference. Requests should be specific: give as much relevant detail as you can, without telling your full story with subsequent irrelevant detail. Abuses of the kindness of these volunteers will probably cause them to withdraw their names so please don't ask for all references to a common name, or for time-consuming research, or for dates outside the ranges listed. Volunteers may or may not be willing to obtain copies of the relevant pages. If they are, expect to reimburse expenses.

To ensure that your message receives prompt attention please use the words Cheshire Look-ups in your subject line and quote the source you would like the volunteer to look at. Many volunteers work on several projects at once and it can be hard for them to try and guess which one you are responding to. Failure to do so could result in your request being overlooked.

If you are new to The Look-up Exchange or unfamiliar with the records of the British Isles please visit the help page for vital information. Not only will you find the material extremely informative, but it will help you avoid wasting your own time, and that of our volunteers, on fruitless searches. The more you know, and the more specific you can be, the better we can help you. "Blanket" requests (e.g. "any baptisms in the name of SMITH"!) will almost certainly be met with "I'm sorry but....". Help us to help you - BE SPECIFIC.

Many of the sources used for these lookups are the result of the dedication and hard work of a Family History Society. Many Family History Societies produce publications related to their county. You may want to consider purchasing your own copy of relevant resources to aid your research. You may also wish to consider supporting research in this area by joining the society or volunteering to do look ups yourself.

GENERAL COUNTY RESOURCES

Title	Volunteer/Link
Cheshire Record Office - main page	Enter here
Cheshire Family History Society	Enter here
North Cheshire Family History Society	Enter here
Cheshire Surnames Research List	Enter here
GENUKI Cheshire County & Parish Pages	Enter here
Cheshire Birth, Marriage & Death (BMD) records 1837 onwards	Enter here
Free Rootsweb UK Birth Marriage & Death (BMD) records 1837 onwards	Enter here
UK Birth Marriage & Death (BMD) records 1837 onwards	Christine Cunningham
Cheshire Birth Marriage & Death (BMD) records 1837-1915	Kati Carpentier
Mormon Church International Genealogical Index (IGI) containing parish records - many Cheshire churches are NOT covered by this index	Enter here
Batch Numbers for Cheshire for IGI use - will clarify which Cheshire parish records are on the IGI (prepared by Hugh Wallis)	Enter here
1992 version of the IGI for Cheshire	Ruth Appleby
Family Search - a Mormon Church pilot site enabling searches of Cheshire Electoral Registers 1842-1900	Enter here
Cheshire Wills 1492-1940 - Cheshire Record Office - searching for and ordering photocopies (fee payable for copies)	Enter here
National Archives Death Duty Registers - searchable database of wills and bequests for estates liable to death duties. Covers the 'country court' death duty registers (in other words, from Courts other than the Prerogative Court of Canterbury) for the period 1796 to 1811	Enter here
Cheshire Church Photographs - courtesy of Bill Moston	Enter here
Cheshire Photographs/Digital Images - Cheshire & Chester Archives & Local Studies	Enter here
Cheshire Photographs from Wishful Thinking	Enter here
Cheshire Photographs - Memorials, Buildings, Streets, etc.	Enter here
Cheshire Pictures (part of Pictures of England.com)	Enter here
Cheshire Photographs - includes historical photographs of Cheshire towns	Enter here
Railways Staff Register - Cheshire and Chester Archives holds 17 staff registers of 4 former railway companies: Cambrian Railway Great Western Railway London and North Western Railway London and North Western and Great Western Joint Railway The registers cover staff working over a large area of the North West including western Cheshire, Shropshire, Herefordshire and nine counties in North and mid Wales. They do not include stations in the east of Cheshire (e.g. Crewe)	Enter here
Tithe Maps and Apportionments for Cheshire (Tithe Commutation Act of 1836). Tithe apportionments are documents recording the acreage subject to tithe, the names of all tithe owners and their tenants and the rent-charge due on each plot or parcel of land in the township in question. Each plot is given a number relating to its position on an accompanying map	Enter here
Access to Archives (A2A) - the A2A database contains catalogues describing archives held locally in England and Wales in record offices and other repositories (including Cheshire) and dating from the eighth century to the present day	Enter here
British Library - searchable database of 13 million books, 920,000 journal and newspaper titles, 57 million patents, 3 million sound recordings, and so much more	Enter here
British History Online - Victoria County History: Cheshire	Enter here
Victoria County History: Cheshire	Enter here
Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) - a searchable database (Debt of Honour Register) of over one million casualties commemorated at military and civil sites in some 150 countries	Enter here
Old Maps - search old maps to see where your ancestors lived in the late 1800's	Enter here
British History Online - Ordnance Survey Maps	Enter here
Shipbuilding or Shipbuilders in Cheshire - database containing details of about 10,000 ships & 200+ shipbuilders (yards) on the Weaver, Mersey & Dee. Includes some canal barges but only where they were built on these rivers. THE DATABASE DOES NOT INCLUDE DETAILS OF INDIVIDUAL SHIPYARD WORKERS.	Tony Barratt
HOLLIN(G)(S)WORTHS One Name Study (ONS) - a website dedicated to the occurrence of the surname around the World	Enter here
GRONOW/GRONNOW/GRUNNOW One-name Study (ONS) - a website dedicated to the occurrence of the surname around the World	Enter here

PARISH RECORDS/BISHOP'S TRANSCRIPTS

National Archives Non-Conformist Records with link to www.bmdregisters.co.uk to search by name (there is a charge to view records)	Enter here
Bertram Merrell's Marriage Index v3.0 (covering 1700-1837)	David Watts
British Isles Vital Records Index (second edition), containing some marriages and baptisms for certain Cheshire churches, such as:- Alsager, Ashley, Aston by Sutton, Barnton, Barrow, Bebington, Bramhall, Byley, Capesthorne, Carrington Castle, Chester, Chorley nr Macclesfield, Congleton, Coppenhall, Crowton Dean Row, Dukinfield, Dunham Massey, Egremont, Frodsham, Gawsworth, Goostrey cum Barnshaw, Grappenhall, Gt Budworth, Halton Handley, Hargrave, Harthill, Henbury, Heswall, Hyde, Ince, Knutsford, Latchford, Lower Whitley, Macclesfield, Malpas, Marton nr Congleton, Mobberley, Mottram in Longdendale, Nantwich, Neston, New Brighton, New Ferry, Northenden, Odd Rode, Northwich, Over, Over Peover, Plemonstall, Pott Shrigley, Prestbury, Rainow, Ringway, Rock Ferry, Rostherne, Runcorn, Sale, Saltersford, Sandbach, Shotwick, Siddington, Stalybridge, Stockport, Stretton nr Warrington, Tarporley, Tarvin, Tattenhal, Taxal, Thornton le Moors, Thurstaston, Tilston, Tintwhistle, Tranmere, Wallasey, Waverton, Weaverham, West Kirby, Wheelock, Whitegate, Willaston nr Gt Neston, Witton cum Twambrooks, Wybunbury. PLEASE MAKE REQUESTS SPECIFIC, WITH NAME(S) & ROUGH DATE OF EVENT TO BE SEARCHED FOR	Donna
Cheshire Church parish register photocopy entries of births, marriages and deaths (exact date, name(s) and church must be provided) - Cheshire Record Office (fee payable)	Enter here
Cheshire Parish Register Project - a growing database of Cheshire Parish Register records	Enter here
Family Search - a Mormon Church pilot site enabling searches by name and date of numerous Cheshire Church Records for baptisms, marriages and burials 1538-1907	Enter here
North & East Cheshire Marriage Index - covers 1754-1837 Complete : Acton By Nantwich, Alderley, Ashton Upon Mersey, Astbury, Aston By Sutton, Audlem, Barrow, Barthomley, Bowdon, Brereton, Cheadle, Chester (Holy Trinity), Christleton, Church Hulme (Holmes Chapel), Church Lawton, Church Minshull, Coppenhall, Daresbury, Davenham, Frodsham, Gawsworth, Goostrey, Grappenhall, Great Budworth, Harthill, Ince, Knutsford, Little Budworth, Lower Peover, Lymm, Middlewich, Mobberley,Mottram in Longdendale, Nantwich, Northenden, Over (Winsford), Over Peover, Prestbury, Quaker Marriages (Digest), Rostherne, Runcorn, Sandbach, Stockport, Swettenham, Taxal, Thornton Le Moors, Warburton, Warmingham, Weaverham, Whitegate, Wilmslow, Wistaston, Witton (Northwich), Wybunbury. Complete but restricted dates : Bruera (Nr. Chester) 1754 - 1812; Delamere 1817 - 1837; Macclesfield, St Michael 1835 - 1837; Sutton (Macclesfield), St George 1835 - 1837. Outside Cheshire : Glossop; Warrington 1754-1759	Colleen Crookes
North & East Cheshire Marriage Index - as above	Bill Howard
Parish Registers Look Up Exchange - some Cheshire parishes included	Enter here
ACTON, St.Mary - Marriages 1837-1860	Alan
AUDLEM, St.James - Marriages 1837-1860	Alan
BADDILEY, St.Michael - Marriages 1837-1905, Baptisms 1813-1885	Alan
BARTHOMLEY, St Bertolines - Parish Register BMD's for 1789-1908.	Bill Howard
BIRKENHEAD, St. Mary - Baptisms, Marriages & Burials 1719 - 1812	Colin Gronow
BOWDON, St Mary's - a mailing list which is intended to serve as a searchable repository of, and discussion group for, St Marys Records, Bowdon (pre-1837). Many subscribers have posted records that they have researched and/or discovered and these postings are searchable by anyone, subscribed or not. To search the archives, enter the list name of ENG-CHS-ST-MARYS-BOWDON, and then enter the surname (or whatever) that you are looking for	Enter here
CHESTER, St Mary's on the Hill - Baptisms only 1547 - 1701	Ruth Appleby
DISLEY - Parish Registers - Baptisms & Burials from their inception to 1900 (marriages are on from Phillimore & 1838-1900)	Enter here
FRODSHAM, St Lawrence - Parish Registers 1558-1812	Bill Howard
GAWSWORTH - Parish Records up to 1837	Alan Bennett
KELSALL Parish Registers - transcribed by Don Dickson	Enter here
KELSALL, St Philips Anglican Church Marriage Register - transcribed by Don Dickson	Enter here
KINGSLEY, St John the Evangelist - Marriages - 1851-1959	Enter here
MELLOR, St Thomas - Marriages from the Phillimore Transcript 1678 to 1775, plus further selected marriage, baptism & burial entries	Enter here
MILL BROW INDEPENDENT CHAPEL (with MARPLE BRIDGE)	Enter here
NORLEY, St John's - Baptisms 1833-1956, Marriages 1838-1964, Burials 1834-1962	Enter here
NORTHENDEN, St Wilfrid's Church - Marriages 1633-1888; Baptisms 1677-1852; Burials 1686-1853	David Gilligan
NORTHWICH, Wesleyan Methodist Circuit Register of Baptisms 1847-1880 (the circuit includes outlying villages)	Elaine Hanson
STOCKPORT - John Wesley Tercentenary/A Register For People Called Methodists, 1793-1838 [Baptism Register of Stockport Methodists]	Enter here
TAXAL - parish registers to 1904 for Baptisms & 1875 for burials. Phillimore marriages are also on.	Enter here
WHALEY BRIDGE (formerly Yeardsley cum Whaley) - Methodist Baptisms, Marriages - Wesleyan Baptisms	Enter here
WRENBURY, St Margaret's - Marriages 1837-1883	Alan

BURIALS & MEMORIAL INSCRIPTIONS

Title	Volunteer/Link
Memorial Inscriptions Look Up Exchange - some Cheshire churches covered	Enter here
Memorial Inscriptions from Wishful Thinking	Enter here
Buried in Cheshire Volumes I & II	Enter here
Macclesfield District Memorial Inscriptions, covers ALDERLEY - St Mary's, Methodist Chapel Graveyard, Tenants Hall/Sir James Black Conference Centre, Alderley Edge cemetery; BIRTLES - St Catherines; BOLLINGTON - St John, St Gregory's; BOSLEY - St Mary the Virgin, Methodist Chapel Graveyard; CAPESTHORN - Small burial ground in front of Capesthorn Hall; CHELFORD - St John the Evangelist; EATON - Christ Church, A small quaker burial ground; ERRWOOD HALL - burial ground; GAWSWORTH - St James (Older part), St James (Newer part), Maggoty Johnson's grave in the wood; HENBURY - St Thomas; HURDSFIELD - Holy Trinity; LANGLEY - Methodist Chapel Graveyard; MACCLESFIELD - St Michaels and All Angels, Christ Church, St Paul's, St Peter's, St Alban's, Roe Street Congregational Chapel, Park Street Methodist Graveyard, Brunswick Methodist Chapel Graveyard, Quaker Meeting House, Town Cemetery; MACCLESFIELD FOREST - St Stephen's, Roadside Stone; MARTON - St James and St Paul's; NORTH RODE - St Michael's; OVER PEOVER - Methodist Chapel Graveyard; POTT SHRIGLEY - St Christopher's, Salesian College Graveyard; POYNTON - St George; PRESTBURY - St Peter's; RAINOW - Holy Trinity, Methodist Chapel Graveyard, Hough Hole House Burial Ground, The Pleasance Burial Ground; SALTERSFORD - St John the Baptist, Roadside stone on Erwin Lane; SIDDINGTON - All Saints; SNELSON - Methodist Chapel Graveyard; SUTTON LANE ENDS - St James; TAXAL - St James; GREAT WARFORD - Baptist Chapel Graveyard; WILDBOARCLOUGH - St Saviour's; WINCLE - St Michael's; LOWER WITHINGTON - St Peter's, Methodist Chapel Graveyard; WOODFORD - Christ Church	Colleen Crookes
ASTBURY, St Mary's - Memorial Inscriptions - PLEASE BE SPECIFIC AND DON'T ASK FOR BLANKET SEARCHES	Sherry Landa
BIRKENHEAD, St Mary's Church & the Priory - Memorial Inscriptions	Colin Gronow
CHESTER, Overleigh Cemetery - opened in 1850. By 1854 many of the parish graveyards in Chester were closed and Overleigh Cemetery was the only municipal burial ground in the City until Blacon was opened in 1922.	Enter here
CONGLETON, St Stephen's & St Peter's - Memorial Inscriptions - PLEASE BE SPECIFIC AND DON'T ASK FOR BLANKET SEARCHES	Sherry Landa
DAVENHAM, St Wilfred's - Memorial Inscriptions	Enter here
GREAT BUDWORTH, St Mary & All Saints Church - Burials 1892-1938	Enter here
GREAT BUDWORTH - Memorial Inscriptions	Lyn McCulloch
NORBURY (Hazel Grove), St Thomas burials & Memorial Inscriptions from 1834 to present day	Enter here
NORTHENDEN, St Wilfrid's Church - Memorial Inscriptions	David Gilligan
RUNCORN CEMETERY - burials 1863-2000	Bill Howard
WYBUNBURY, St Chad's - Memorial Inscriptions & Burials 1807-1875 - PLEASE BE SPECIFIC AND DON'T ASK FOR BLANKET SEARCHES	Sherry Landa

CENSUS & CENSUS INDEXES

*Note that the indexes marked 'Surname index only' give only
the surnames in the original films and the page numbers on which they occur and NO other information (Not even first names!). You can order the original films for viewing at your local LDS (Mormon) Church Library.

Title	Volunteer/Link
1881 British Census 'on-line', where you can do your own lookup.	Enter Here
1841-1901 censuses. Please make requests specific and don't be too greedy - NO "BLANKET" REQUESTS FOR SEARCHES!!	Kati Carpentier
1841-1901 censuses. Please make requests specific and don't be too greedy - NO "BLANKET" REQUESTS FOR SEARCHES!!	David Gilligan
1841-1901 censuses. Please make requests specific and don't be too greedy - NO "BLANKET" REQUESTS FOR SEARCHES!!	Sherry Landa
1841-1901 censuses. Please make requests specific and don't be too greedy - NO "BLANKET" REQUESTS FOR SEARCHES!!	Christine Cunningham
DISLEY - all census except 1881 (to be added before the end of 2007)	Enter here
LUDWORTH - 1841 Census	Enter here
LYME HANDLEY - all census except 1881 (to be added before the end of 2007)	Enter here
MELLOR - 1841, 1891 & 1901 Census links	Enter here
STALYBRIDGE - 1811 Census	Enter here
TATTENHALL 1841 Census	Ruth Appleby
TAXAL - Census for 1861, 1871 & 1881	Enter here
WHALEY BRIDGE (formerly Yeardsley cum Whaley) - Census for 1851, 1861, 1871 & 1881.	Enter here
WIRRAL - numerous census returns details for the villages on the Wirral	Enter here

DIRECTORIES
Directories contain the names of people in trade.
PLEASE STATE TOWN as a search of the whole county is not possible due to the arrangement of the entries.

Title	Volunteer/Link
Historical Local & Trade Directories for England and Wales - 1750-1919 - University of Leicester Project	Enter here
1789 Cowdroy's Directory & Guide for Cheshire	Enter here
1791 "Universal British Directory" - please be very specific about the location, as the directory is broken down by towns/cities/hamlets, etc., and not by county	Lynne
1822-1823 Pigot's Directory of Cheshire	Enter here
1830 Pigot's Commercial Directory of Cheshire	Ruth Appleby
1834 Pigot's Commercial Directory of Cheshire	Ruth Appleby
1850 - Bagshaw Directory (Cheshire) 1855 - Slater's Directory (Cheshire) 1860 - F White Directory (Cheshire) 1892 - Kelly's Directory (Cheshire) Please make requests specific and don't be too greedy - NO "BLANKET" REQUESTS FOR SEARCHES!!	Lesley Baxendale
1857 Post Office Directory of Cheshire	Enter here
1860 - White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Cheshire	Lynne
1864 Morris & Co's Directory of Cheshire	Enter here
1878 Post Office Directory of Cheshire	Enter here
1883 Slater's Directory of Cheshire & Liverpool	Enter here
1902 Kelly's Directory of Cheshire	Enter here
1906 Kelly's Directory of Cheshire	Enter here
1910 Kelly's Directory of Cheshire	Enter here
BIRKENHEAD - 1915-1916 "Willmer's Directory"	Lynne
DISLEY (with New Mills) - 1835 Pigot's Directory	Enter here
HAZEL GROVE - Trade Directories for Stockport & Hazel Grove for 1902, 1907 & 1910	Enter here
HYDE - 1834 Trade Directory	Enter here
MARPLE & District - 1824-5 Pigot & Dean's Directory for Manchester & Salford &c	Enter here
MELLOR (inc.Compstall Bridge, Marple & Romiley) - 1835 Pigot's Directory	Enter here
MOTTRAM IN LONGDENDALE - 1821 Trade Directory	Enter here
MOTTRAM IN LONGDENDALE - 1832 Trade Directory	Enter here
STALYBRIDGE (Stayley Bridge) - 1825 Trade Directory	Enter here
STOCKPORT GENEALOGICAL DATABASE - the information on the database has been compiled from a range of 21 local directories published between 1772 and 1845. Searchable by surname giving surname, forename(s), title, occupation/condition, address/citation, and date.	Enter here
STOCKPORT - Trade Directories for Stockport & Hazel Grove - 1902, 1907 & 1910	Enter here
STOCKPORT - Trade Directories - 1841-1930	Enter here
WARRINGTON - 1871 Worrall's Directory	Enter here
WARRINGTON, WIDNES & ST HELENS - 1895 Slater's Directory	Enter here
WIRRAL - Post Office Directory of Cheshire 1857 - all Wirral villages included	Enter here

BOOKS & MISCELLANEOUS RECORDS

Title	Volunteer/Link
AUSTRALIA - Current Australian Electoral Rolls	Ron Fitzpatrick
CHESTER FREEMEN - database taken from an index to the rolls and registers of freemen of the City of Chester and covers the period 1747 to 1925	Enter here
CHESTER GAOL - list of prisoners 1808-1816	Enter here
GODLEY - Land Tax 1794	Enter here
HATTERSLEY - Land Tax 1809	Enter here
HOLLINGWORTH - Land Tax 1797	Enter here
HYDE - Land Tax 1796	Enter here
LUDWORTH - Hearth Tax Assessment 1662-1670	Enter here
LUDWORTH - Window Tax 1783-1784	Enter here
MARPLE & DISTRICT - photographs of buildings, places, people, events, etc.	Enter here
MATLEY - Land Tax 1794	Enter here
MELLOR - Hearth Tax Assessment - 1662-70	Enter here
MELLOR & Area - Wills	Enter here
MOTTRAM IN LONGDENDALE - Land Tax 1795	Enter here
NORTHENDEN AREA - database of people in Northenden between 1800 and 1900 (areas include Bowdon, Timperley, Baguley, Sale, Ashton-upon-Mersey, Northen Etchells, Stockport Etchells, Handforth, Cheadle etc, etc). David is willing to do a brief search of this database for any specific name.	David Gilligan
NORTHWICH - Local Genealogy and Local History - hosted by Penny Trueman. Includes lists of Saltworkers from the 1881 census, entries from Bagshaws 1850 directory on Northwich and extracts from Kelly's 1892 directory. The Inns of Northwich and their licensees, pictures old and new, and history. An index of Irish inhabitants, both in the salt industry and out of it. Entries of residents etc. from Pigot's 1828/9 Cheshire Directory. 1851 census for Comberbach including 1851 entries for the Licensees.	Enter here
POYNTON - Industrial History and Archaeology, an online version of the book "Poynton a Coalmining Village"	Enter here
POYNTON - Industrial History and Archaeology, particularly the coal mining industry in Cheshire	Enter here
STAYLEY - Land Tax 1794	Enter here
STOCKPORT - interactive maps of the Borough of Stockport	Enter here
STOCKPORT - photographs of Stockport in the 1900's & 1960's	Enter here
STOCKPORT - William Astle’s History of Stockport, (1922 & supplement 1922-1932)	Enter here
STOCKPORT - Local Heritage Library holdings & contact - "Enquiries from those who are unable to come into the library are welcomed in writing or via email. Please note staff are only able to spend a maximum of 30 minutes researching. There is no charge for this."	Enter here
TINTWISTLE - Land Tax 1797	Enter here
WERNETH - Land Tax 1797	Enter here
WIRRAL - Hearth Tax 1674 - villages including Caldy, Frankby, Grange, Greasby, Great/Little Meols, Newton & West Kirby	Enter here
WIRRAL - Land Tax Returns 1700's - villages including Caldy, Frankby, Grange, Greasby, Great/Little Meols, Hoose, Moreton, Newton & West Kirby	Enter here
WIRRAL - Tithe Records 1800's - villages including Greasby, Great/Little Meols, Hoose, Irby, Moreton, Saughall Massie & West Kirby	Enter here

SURNAMES

ATHERTON surname - willing to look up Atherton surname entries/records in an ever-growing database. Commenced a One-Name Study in early 2009.	Derek Atherton
NORBURY surname - willing to help anyone who has an interest in this family surname with Cheshire origins.	Kaye Christian

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