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Guide to'''  Congleton St James, Cheshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy:''' parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.  

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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>Samuel A. Lewis, ''[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50893#s23 A Topographical Dictionary of England]'' (1848). Date Accessed: 18 Jan 2013</ref><br>  

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>Samuel A. Lewis, [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>  

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Congleton St James parish registers&nbsp;of christenings, marriages and burials have been indexed by the following groups:  

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Non-Conformist Records:  

Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from 1 July 1837 to the present day. The [[England Civil Registration|civil registration]] article tells more about these records. Here are two excellent Internet sites with birth, marriage and death indexes available:  

*[http://cheshirebmd.org.uk/ Cheshire BMD]

*Congleton

*[[Congleton Poor Law Union, Cheshire]]

Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to [[Cheshire Probate Records|Cheshire Probate Records]] to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.  

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