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| [[England]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[Cheshire]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[Cheshire Parishes]][[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] Congleton St James | | #REDIRECT [[Congleton St James, Cheshire, England Genealogy]] |
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| Guide to''' Congleton St James, Cheshire family history and genealogy:''' parish registers (baptism, christening, marriage, and burial records), civil registration (birth, marriage, and death records), census records, history, wills, cemetery, online transcriptions and indexes, an interactive map and websites.<br>
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| == Parish History ==
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| CONGLETON, is an incorporated market-town, a '''chapelry''', and the head of a union, in the '''parish of Astbury''', it is locally in the hundred of Northwich, S. division of the county of Chester. The chapel, dedicated to St. Peter. At Congleton Moss, a church was dedicated to the Holy Trinity it was erected in 1845. Two districts or ecclesiastical parishes have been formed under Sir Robert Peel's act: in the one, St. Stephen's district, a chapel has been purchased from the dissenters, in the other, '''St. James'''', a church. There are places of worship for '''Independents, Primitive Methodists, Wesleyans, Unitarians, and Roman Catholics'''.<ref>Lewis, Samuel A., ''[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50893#s23 A Topographical Dictionary of England]'' (1848), adapted 18 Jan 2013</ref><br>
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| Congleton St James was formed in 1847 from [[Congleton St Peter,Cheshire]] and the earlier Ancient parish of [[Astbury, Cheshire]].
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| In 1847 the district of Astbury contained a population of three thousand four hundred. Under an act known as ‘Sir Robert Peel’s Church Extension Act’, which was designed to make better provision for the spiritual care of populous parishes, the church of St. James was born.<br>
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| The Church consists of Nave, Side Aisles and Chancel, with a porch at the northern end and a bell-cot surmounting the western end of the Nave roof.<br>
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| Other closely associated chapelries also lying within Astbury ancient parish included the chapelries of Congleton St Peter and St Stephen's, Mossley Holy Trinity, Buglawton, Rode, Smallwood, and Somerford; together with several places of worship for dissenters, in the parish.<ref>Lewis, Samuel A., [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50767 A Topographical Dictionary of England] (1848), pp. 100-104. Adapted. Date accessed: 01 July 2013.</ref><br><br>
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| == Resources ==
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| ==== Church Records ====
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| Congleton St James parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials have been indexed by the following groups:
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| | bgcolor="#ffffff" align="left" colspan="6" | '''<sub>FS PR's =[https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1614792 FamilySearch Parish Registers]</sub>'''
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| | bgcolor="#ffffff" align="left" colspan="6" | '''<sub>FS BT's = [https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1469935 FamilySearch Bishops Transcripts]</sub>'''
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| | bgcolor="#ffffcc" align="center" colspan="7" scope="col" | '''Congleton St James Parish (1844) Online Records'''
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| | bgcolor="#ffffcc" | <br>
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| | bgcolor="#ffcccc" colspan="2" | <center>'''''Baptisms'''''</center>
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| | bgcolor="#ccffcc" colspan="2" | <center>'''''Marriages'''''</center>
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| | bgcolor="#ccffff" colspan="2" | <center>'''''Burials'''''</center>
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| | bgcolor="#ffffcc" | <br>
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| | bgcolor="#ffcccc" | '''Indexes'''
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| | bgcolor="#ffcccc" | '''Images'''
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| | bgcolor="#ccffcc" | '''Indexes'''
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| | bgcolor="#ccffcc" | '''Images'''
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| | bgcolor="#ccffff" | '''Indexes'''
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| | bgcolor="#ffffcc" | '''FS PR's'''
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| | bgcolor="#ffcccc" | [https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1614792 1844-1909]<br>
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| | bgcolor="#ffcccc" | NONE<br>
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| | bgcolor="#ccffcc" | [https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1614792 1849-1934]<br>
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| | bgcolor="#ffffcc" | '''FS BT'S'''
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| | bgcolor="#ffcccc" | [https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1469935 1886-1894]<br>
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| Parish registers for St. James, Congleton, Cheshire, 1844-1957
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| An index for Cheshire parish registers is available online at FamilySearch Historical Records(formerly Record Search)
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| Cheshire Record Office number: P210/1/1-5, 2/1-5, P210/5142/1, P210/5273/1-5.
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| {| width="708" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" border="1" style="width: 708px; height: 449px;"
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| | Baptisms 1844-1901; Marriages 1849-1894.
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| | FHL BRITISH Film <br>1655831 Items 2 - 6
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| | Marriages 1893-1908
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| | FHL BRITISH Film <br>1655851 Item 1
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| | Baptisms, 1901-1925 Marriages, 1908-1948
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| | FHL BRITISH Film <br>2093667 Items 11-15
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| | Baptisms, 1925-1957.
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| | FHL BRITISH Film <br>2106997 Item 11
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| | Banns of marriages, 1849-1923.
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| | FHL BRITISH Film <br>2147233 Items 4 - 8
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| ==== <br>Non-Conformist Churches ====
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| ==== <br>Non-Conformist Records ====
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| == <br> ==
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| ==== Census Records<br> ====
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| {{British Census|241249}}<br>
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| == <br>Poor Law Unions ==
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| *[[Congleton Poor Law Union, Cheshire]]
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| == <br>Registration Districts ==
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| == Websites ==
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| == References ==
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| <references />
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| == <br>Bibliography<br> ==
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| Title History of Congleton: published to celebrate the 700th anniversary of the granting of the charter to the town<br>Congleton History Society<br>Authors W. B. Stephens, Congleton History Society<br>Editor W. B. Stephens Publisher Manchester University Press ND, 1970<br>ISBN 0719012457, 9780719012457
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| [[Category:Cheshire]]
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