Cheshire

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A view of the unique Chester Rows submitted by Tom

Cheshire

County town: Chester.

Other major towns: Historically Birkenhead, Wallasey, Stockport. In later years Macclesfield, Crew and Warrington

Famous for its sandstone hills and the large plain, Cheshire was an agricultural area famous for milk and cheese production. Salt mines were started in 1682, other local industries being the leather trade and charcoal production.

Chester is famous for its Roman ruins as well as its Tudor heritage seen in its black and white timbered buildings. Attractions in Chester include a city wall which is nearly complete, the River Dee and the Zoo.

The footballer Joe Mercer was born in Ellesmere Port.

The county has undergone numerous changes over the years.

A summary of these can be found here.

For full details about certificate applications visit the Cheshire County Link of UKBMD here - Cheshire Births Marriages & Deaths

Register Offices

Cheshire Central Register Office

Delamere House
Chester Street
Crewe
Cheshire
CW1 2LL

Cheshire East Register Office

Park Green
Macclesfield
Cheshire
SK11 6TW

Cheshire West Register Office

Goss Street
Chester
Cheshire
CH1 2BG

Flintshire Register Office

Llwynegrin Hall
Mold
CH7 6NR

Runcorn Register Office

Halton Register Office
Heath Road
Runcorn
Cheshire
WA7 5TN

Stockport Register Office

Town Hall
Stockport
Cheshire
SK1 3XE

Tameside Register Office

Town Hall
King Street
Dukinfield
Cheshire
SK16 4LA

Trafford Register Office

Town Hall
Sale Waterside
Sale
Cheshire
M33 7ZF

Warrington Register Office

Museum Street
Warrington
Cheshire
WA1 1JX

Wirral Register Office

Town Hall
Mortimer Street
Birkenhead
CH41 5EU

Wrexham Register Office

Ty Dewi Sant
Rhosddu Road
Wrexham
LL11 1NF

Record Office Requests

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Record Office Lookup Contacts

County records Office address

Cheshire and Chester Archives and Local Studies Service,

Cheshire Record Office,

Duke Street,

Chester,

Cheshire.

CH1 1RL. United Kingdom

Phone : 44 (0)1244 602574 Fax : 44 (0)1244 603812

Cemetery Lookup Requests

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Cemetery Lookup Contacts

• Burton: Teresa
• Chester Diocesan churches within city the city itself: OurEm
• Puddington: Teresa
• Wirral churches and villages: Teresa
• Wirral churches and villages:Lovettpod

Links

• County Record Office

• Library Links

• Cheshire BMD

Local history society

• Local History Society Gateway

OPC

Archives

• Cheshire Genealogy Links

• IGI Cheshire

• An index of selected Cheshire Deeds and Documents

• Cheshire County Council - Wills Database Online Home

• Some Wills and Parish Records

• Cheshire Parish Register Project

• JDGen - Parish register transcriptions for various surnames and lots of will transcriptions

• Return of Owners of Land, Cheshire 1873

• Wirral Archives

Family and social history

• Family History Society of Cheshire

• North Cheshire FHS

• Cheshire Workhouses

• The Lion Salt Works Trust

Maps & Photographs

• Picture Cheshire

• Welcome to the B&W Picture Place

• Old Photos of Cheshire

• Carl's Cam - Photos of Cheshire

• Moston-Cheshire Family History-Pictures of Cheshire Churches

• Chester Image Bank

• Photographs and History of Shotwick

Countywide interest

• Cheshire, Staffs & Shropshire memorial inscriptions

• The Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire

• The Victoria History of Cheshire

• A Century of Cheshire Brewers

• War Memorials

• Scrapbook of Antiguities

Specific Town Village interest

• SaltyWeb - Altrincham

• Cheadle & Gatley war memorials

• Chester-photographs and History

• Disley, Lyme Handley, Taxal & Whaley

• Great Budworth, Kingsley St John, Norley St John and Davenham

• Kelsall

• Middlewich Cemetery

• Penny's Northwich Pages

• Odd Rode and surrounding townships Under the original Astbury Parish umbrella, on the Cheshire/Staffordshire border

• Northwich publicans

• The Salt Industry and its Legacy Northwich and the surrounding area + links

• A mine of information for the Tameside Area

• Family History Society of Cheshire, Crewe Group

• General Information about Saughall

• Weaverham Marriages (at least one partner from Weaverham parish or, marriage took place at Weaverham

• Weaverham Wills 1599-1837

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