Cheshire Research Resources

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The Cheshire County Category

Cheshire Team Page

Cheshire Genealogical Resources

• The History of Cheshire

• The history of the county palatine and city of Chester, George Ormerod (1819),Volume 1,Volume 2,Volume 3

• Genuki Cheshire Genealogical information relating to Cheshire.
  • Registration Districts in Cheshire The civil registration districts in Cheshire since 1837.

• Cheshire Parish Register Project Registers of some of the parishes in the ancient county of Cheshire.

• England, Cheshire Parish Registers - FamilySearch Historical Records An index to baptismal, marriage, and burial records from the county of Cheshire for the years 1538-2000.

• Phillimore Cheshire Marriages 1571-1837

• Cheshire BMD The county's Family History Societies are collaborating with the local Registration Services to make the indexes to these records freely searchable via the Internet.
  • Composition of Cheshire Registrars' Sub-Districts page.

• Historical Maps of Cheshire 16th to 19th century.

• Cheshire Tithe Maps

• Biographical History of the Family of Daniell or De Anyers of Cheshire

• Cheshire Notes and Queries

• Local Gleanings Relating to Lancashire and Cheshire

• Lists of prisoners in Chester Goal 1808-1816

• Lancashire and Cheshire Wills and Inventories from the Ecclesiastical Court, Chester Piccope, George John, Ed., Chetham Society, 1861, Vol I, Vol II, Vol III.
  • With an Appendix of Abstracts of Wills by George John Piccope , John Parsons Earwaker, 1884, Printed for the Chetham Society New Series Vol 3

• Visitation(s) of England and Wales County Index entries for persons whose pedigree first entry in the Visitation(s) commences in Cheshire, or who appears listed in a pedigree, addendum or correction to the Visitation(s) as born in Cheshire.
  • Full text of The visitation of Cheshire in the year 1580 with numerous additions and continuations including those from visitations in 1566, 1533 and 1591. Edited by John Paul Rylands F.S.A. London 1882.
  • Full text of Pedigrees Made at the Visitation of Cheshire, 1613 Edited by Sir George J. Armytage, Bart. F.S.A., and J. Paul Rylands, Esq., F.S.A.. Printed for the Record Society. 1909.
  • Pedigrees Made at the Visitation of Cheshire, 1613 - pdf download Taken by Richard St. George, Esq., Norroy King of Arms and Henry St George, Gent., Bluemantle Pursuivant of Arms, 1613.

• Journal of the Architectural, Archaeological, and Historic Society for the County and the City of Chester and North Wales

• Lancashire and Cheshire Historical and Genealogical Notes

• Remains Historical & Literary Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester

• The Record Society for the Publication of Original Documents Relating to Lancashire and Cheshire

• Parish Register of the Holy & Undivided Trinity in the City of Chester, 1532-1837

• Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire

• The Family History Society of Cheshire

• Quakers in Cheshire

• East Cheshire: Past and Present

• Cheshire Heraldry A web site dedicated to the art and science of heraldry in the County Palatine of Chester

• The History of the Ancient Parish of Sandbach

• Chronicle of Thelwall, co. Chester, with notices of the successive Lords of that Manor, their family descent, etc. etc. The Topographer and Genealogist Volume 1. Pages 379 - 394. Edited by James Nicholson FSA and John Gough (accessed 30 Jun 2023)

• Diocese of Chester wills on FamilySearch