Congleton St James,Cheshire
Guide to Congleton St James, Cheshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Congleton St James,Cheshire | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ecclesiastical Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Northwich |
| County | Cheshire |
| Poor Law Union | Congleton |
| Registration District | Congleton |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1844 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1886 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Middlewich |
| Diocese | Pre-1541 - Lichfield and Coventry; Post-1540 - Chester |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Pre-1541 - Court of the Bishop of Lichfield (Episcopal Consistory) Post-1540 - Court of the Bishop of Cheshire (Episcopal Consistory) |
| Location of Archive | |
| Cheshire Record Office | |
Parish History
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 is 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.[1]
Congleton St James was formed in 1847 from Congleton St Peter,Cheshire and the earlier Ancient parish of Astbury, Cheshire.
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.
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.
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.[2]
Resources
Census Records
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a FamilySearch Center or at the FamilySearch Library.
Church Records
Congleton St James parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials have been indexed by the following groups:
| BIVRI = British Isles Vital Records Index (Ancestry) - (£)[3] | |||||
| FS PR's =FamilySearch Parish Registers | |||||
| FS BT's = FamilySearch Bishops Transcripts |
| Congleton St James Parish (1844) Online Records | ||||||
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| BIVRI | 1844-1886 | 1849-1906 | ||||
| FS PR's | 1844-1909 |
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1849-1934 |
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| FS BT'S | 1886-1894 |
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Parish registers for St. James, Congleton, Cheshire, 1844-1957
An index for Cheshire parish registers is available online at FamilySearch Historical Records(formerly Record Search)
Cheshire Record Office number: P210/1/1-5, 2/1-5, P210/5142/1, P210/5273/1-5.
| Contents | Film |
| Baptisms 1844-1901; Marriages 1849-1894. | FHL BRITISH Film 1655831 Items 2 - 6 |
| Marriages 1893-1908 | FHL BRITISH Film 1655851 Item 1 |
| Baptisms, 1901-1925 Marriages, 1908-1948 | FHL BRITISH Film 2093667 Items 11-15 |
| Baptisms, 1925-1957. | FHL BRITISH Film 2106997 Item 11 |
| Banns of marriages, 1849-1923. | FHL BRITISH Film 2147233 Items 4 - 8 |
Non-Conformist Churches
Non-Conformist Records:
- 1671-1900 England, Cheshire Non-conformist Records, 1671-1900 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)
Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from 1 July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. Here are two excellent Internet sites with birth, marriage and death indexes available:
Registration Districts
- Congleton
Poor Law Unions
Probate Records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to 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.
see also England Cheshire Probate Records - FamilySearch Historical Records
Websites
Congleton on Genuki
Congleton St James on Genuki
References
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848). Date Accessed: 18 Jan 2013
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 100-104. Adapted. Date accessed: 01 July 2013.
- ↑ 'British Isles Vital Records Index - 2nd Ed. Breakdown of Records', Genoot, accessed 14 October 2013.
Bibliography
Title History of Congleton: published to celebrate the 700th anniversary of the granting of the charter to the town
Congleton History Society
Authors W. B. Stephens, Congleton History Society
Editor W. B. Stephens Publisher Manchester University Press ND, 1970
ISBN 0719012457, 9780719012457