Sources and Addresses Directory

This page is a directory listing useful sources and addresses for researching your families history.

Cheshire Family History Societies

Cheshire Civil Registration

Other Cheshire and area Register Offices

Halton Borough
Register Office, Heath Road,
Runcorn, WA7 STN
Tel. 01928 576797

Registrar General, Office for National Statistics (all areas)
General Register Office
PO BOX 2
Southport
Merseyside
PR8 2JD

The Register Office
Wirral Registration District
Town Hall
Mortimer Street
Birkenhead
Wirral, CH41 5EU

Trafford Registration District
Sale Town Hall
Sale Waterside
Sale M33 7ZF
Tel 0161 912 3025
email registrars@trafford.gov.uk
Trafford Council - Links to Registration services

Tameside Register Office
Town Hall
Dukinfield
tel 0161 342 5032
email tameside.registrars@tameside.gov.uk

Stockport Register Office
Town Hall
John Street Entrance
Stockport SK1 3XE
Tel 0161 474 3399

Wrexham Register Office
Ty Dewi Sant
Rhosddu Road
Wrexham
LL11 1NF

General Register Office Indexes in Cheshire and District

Chester Community History and Heritage Service
Bridge Street Row East
Chester CH1 1NW
Tel 01244 402110

Liverpool Record Office and Local History Service
Central Library, William Brown Street
Liverpool L3 8EW
Tel 0151 233 5817
recoffice.central.library@liverpool.gov.uk

Flintshire Reference and Information
Service
Library HQ, County Hall
Mold, Flintshire CH7 6NW
Tel 01352 704411
Flintshire County Council

Local Studies Library Derbyshire Libraries and Heritage
County Hall, Matlock
Derbyshire DE4 3AG
Tel 01629 585579

Derbyshire County Council - Record Office
Shropshire Archives
Castle Gates
Shrewsbury SY1 2AQ
Tel 01743 255350
research@shropshire-cc.gov.uk

Shropshire County Council - Archives
Shirehall
Abbey Foregate
Shrewsbury
Shropshire
SY2 6ND

Genuki.org - Shropshire Archives

Staffordshire County Council - Archives
Staffordshire Record Office
Eastgate Street, Stafford
Staffordshire ST16 2LZ
Tel 01785 278373

Heritage Library
Central Library, Wellington Road South
Stockport SK1 3RS
Tel 0161 474 4530
localheritagelibrary@stockport.gov.uk
NB This includes over 26,000 entries relating to local people compiled from directories between 1772-1845.

Includes:

Name of the township or civil parish.
The Ancient Parish and Hundred in which it was situated.
Its Ordnance Survey Grid Reference (e.g. SJ 4761).
Details of important boundary changes.
A list of the main hamlets and villages.
The population in 1801, 1851, 1901 and 1951.
A list of all known Churches and Chapels, showing the denomination and founding dates for each place of worship, and brief details of which parish registers may be seen at local record offices.
Dates of the earliest Bishop's Transcripts held at the Cheshire Record Office, where these predate surviving church registers.
Details of any civil cemeteries or burial grounds.
The name(s) of the electoral districts/parliamentary constituencies in which the parish was situated between 1832 and 1974.
The name(s) of the Poor Law Union(s) in which the parish was situated between 1836 and 1930.
The name(s) of the Civil Registration District(s) in which the parish has been situated since July 1837.
The majority of Cheshire parish registers over 100 years old and many more recent ones have been deposited at Cheshire Record Office. Some are still held by parish churches. (For details, see Cheshire Parish Registers. A Summary Guide, B. Langston)
Generally, microfilm copies of registers are available at Cheshire Record Office to reduce wear and tear on the original registers. Libraries and family history centres also have microfilm copies of some registers of local churches
Entries for some Cheshire parish registers have been copied, indexed and published by local societies. We hold many in our local studies reference library. Check Langston’s Cheshire Parish Registers for details.

Cheshire Wills

The Cheshire Record Office - wills database is available to search online via the Cheshire Record Office web site under ‘Catalogues and Indexes’ The database includes Cheshire wills 1540-1940.

Cheshire Census Returns

Copies of the returns for Cheshire are available on microfilm and microfiche at Cheshire Record Office. You can also see copies relating to local areas in a number of Cheshire East libraries.

Local indexes of surnames and streets have been compiled for some years and places. The 1881 census and 1901 census are the only returns with a complete, national index.

Copies of the census 1841-1901 for all counties in England and Wales are available at the Family Records Centre.

Cheshire IGI

You can search the IGI online at FamilySearch