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    Default Cheshire Resources

    Cheshire Archives and Local Studies collects, protects and promotes interest in and the use of records and printed material relating to the historic county of Cheshire
    https://archives.cheshire.gov.uk/home.aspx

    Warrington Archives
    https://www.livewirewarrington.co.uk/...family-history

    Cheshire Family History Society
    https://www.fhsc.org.uk/

    North Cheshire Family History Society
    https://www.ncfhs.org.uk/

    Manchester Archives which holds some Cheshire records
    https://www.manchester.gov.uk/info/44..._local_studies

    Wirral Archive services which has public access to thousands of historical records relating to the history of Wirral.
    https://www.wirral.gov.uk/my-services...chives-service

    Cheshire BMD - Not yet complete but hopes it will eventually cover all Cheshire births, marriages and deaths from 1837.
    https://www.cheshirebmd.org.uk/

    Cheshire Tithe Maps & Apportionments. Where you can search for owners and occupiers of land from around 150 years ago and compare with modern maps.
    https://maps.cheshire.gov.uk/tithemaps/

    Arley Hall Archives - a searchable database of records from 1750–1790
    https://www.arleyhallarchives.co.uk/

    My Primitive Methodist Ancestors - An interactive site for those with Methodists ancestors
    https://www.myprimitivemethodists.org.uk/

    Family Chest - free surname search then a charge to access the document including conveyances, mortgages, leases and sales, by lease and release.
    https://www.familychest.co.uk/index.htm

    Old Maps, including Cheshire
    https://www.old-maps.co.uk/index.html#/

    Internet Archive WaybackMachine - Northwich Town Centre
    https://web.archive.org/web/200910262...hwich1600.html

    Over 70 historical maps of Cheshire from 1577 until 1922 with different amounts of detail on roads, canals, navigable waterways and some areas of Cheshire.
    https://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb...._pages/chs.htm

    A List of Freeholders in Cheshire in 1578
    https://archive.org/details/alistfreeholder00britgoog

    Survey of Macclesfield Manor, 1611, containing information about freeholders, copyholders and tenants living in the Macclesfield Manor & Forest area at the time of the Survey. This was commissioned by Prince Henry, Duke of Cornwall and Earl of Chester, and produced by 23 persons having standing in the local community.
    https://www.tiger2.f2s.com/1611Maccle...rvey/index.php

    Macclesfield Workhouse - https://www.workhouses.org.uk/Macclesfield/
    Northwich Workhouse - https://www.workhouses.org.uk/Northwich/
    Chester workhouse - https://www.workhouses.org.uk/Chester/

    County families of Lancashire and Cheshire
    https://www.archive.org/details/count...esof00crosuoft

    Pedigrees Made at the Visitation of Cheshire, 1613 (Volume 58)
    https://www.archive.org/details/recordsociety58recouoft

    Visitations of Cheshire 1580 and 1613 (South Cheshire FHS)
    https://www.scfhs.org.uk/scfhs/visitations/index.html

    Middlewich Cemetery Records:
    https://www.middlewichcemetery.co.uk/

    Weaverham St Mary Burial Records:
    https://www.avyc14.dsl.pipex.com/resources.html

    Stalybridge Old St George & Stalybridge New St George Burials & MI's
    https://www.stg.org.uk/family-history...-inscriptions/

    Overleigh Cemetery Database:
    https://archivedatabases.cheshire.gov...tery/home.aspx

    Some MIs from St Mary's Birkenhead:
    https://stmarysbirkenhead.blogspot.com/

    Witton St Helen MIs:
    https://familytreemaker.genealogy.com.../0032page.html

    Davenham MIs:
    https://ancestorsatrest.com/cemetery_...venham-a.shtml

    Little Budworth Burials:
    https://familytreemaker.genealogy.com.../0030page.html

    St Mary & All Saints Great Budworth Burials:
    https://familytreemaker.genealogy.com.../0031page.html

    Tameside Burial and Cremation Records online database: 50,000 + Burial and Cremation Records from Tameside cemeteries including Ashton (Hurst), Audenshaw, Denton, Dukinfield, Droylsden, Hyde, Mottram and Mosley.
    https://web.tameside.gov.uk/BACAS/

    Cheshire and Lancashire Funeral Certificates 1600 - 1678
    https://www.archive.org/details/chesh...lanc00britgoog

    Warrington Burial records
    https://www.warrington.gov.uk/info/20...burial_records

    War Dead of Trafford, Greater Manchester
    List of names associated with the Trafford and nearby areas, which include parts of pre-1974 Cheshire including Altrincham, Ashley, Ashton on Mersey, Baguley, Bollington, Bowdon, Broadheath, Brooklands, Carrington, Dunham, Hale, Hale Barns, High Legh, Mere, Mobberley, Partington, Ringway, Rostherne, Sale, Timperley & Warburton.
    https://www.traffordwardead.co.uk/index.php

    War Memorials
    Gazetteer of Cheshire including photographs of many Cheshire war memorials
    https://www.carlscam.com/

    Great Western Railway Roll of Honour:
    https://www.carlscam.com/chester/gwrmem.htm

    Cheshire City Gaol Registers
    https://archivedatabases.cheshire.gov...px?archiveid=2

    List of Prisoners in Chester Gaol 1808 - 1816
    https://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~engchs/prison.html

    Cheshire Wills Database
    A searchable record of probate documents proved at Chester between 1492 and 1940. Wills can be ordered online.
    https://archivedatabases.cheshire.gov...ts/search.aspx

    A List of Lancashire Wills Proved Within the Archdeaconry of Richmond, and now Preserved in the Court of Probate at Lancaster (Volume 23)
    https://www.archive.org/details/recordsociety23recouoft

    A List of the Lancashire Wills Proved Within the Archdeaconry of Richmond (Volume 66)
    https://www.archive.org/details/recordsociety66recouoft






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    Findmypast have the following datasets for Cheshire.

    (I had started a similar list for Ancestry but unfortunately my computer crashed, and I'm waiting to see if my son can recover the file. If not, Ancestry's list will have to wait until I have a spare couple of hours in which to re-do it.)

    Cheshire Diocese Of Chester Bishop's Transcripts Baptisms 1576-1906
    Cheshire Diocese Of Chester Bishop's Transcripts Burials 1576-1906
    Cheshire Diocese Of Chester Bishop's Transcripts Marriages 1576-1906
    Cheshire Diocese Of Chester Parish Baptisms 1538-1911
    Cheshire Diocese Of Chester Parish Burials 1538-1911
    Cheshire Diocese Of Chester Parish Marriages 1538-1910
    Cheshire Electoral Registers (1842 – 1900)
    Cheshire Land Tax Assessments 1779-1832
    Cheshire Marriage Licence Bonds and Allegations 1606-1905
    Cheshire Monumental Inscriptions (for Hill Cliffe Chapel, Warrington which was for Baptists)
    Cheshire Non-Conformist & Roman Catholic Registers (Baptism) 17th Century-1910 (see ‘discover more’ for places)
    Cheshire Non-Conformist & Roman Catholic Registers (Burials) 17th Century-1910 (see ‘discover more’ for places)
    Cheshire Non-Conformist & Roman Catholic Registers (Marriages) 17th Century-1910 (see ‘discover more’ for places)
    Cheshire Registers & Records
    Cheshire Vital Records Browse 1500-1991
    Cheshire Wills and Probate
    Cheshire Workhouse Records (Admissions & Discharges) (1781 – 1911)
    Cheshire Workhouse Records (Baptisms)
    Cheshire Workhouse Records (Births)
    Cheshire Workhouse Records (Burials)
    Cheshire Workhouse Records (Burials) (1880 – 1900)
    Cheshire Workhouse Records (Deaths)
    Cheshire Workhouse Records (Religious Creeds)
    Cheshire, Church Hulme Chapelry Burials, 1683-1850

    British Newspaper Archive have the following newspapers for various years:
    Northwich Guardian - 1861-1896, 1898-1910
    Winsford and Middlewich Guardian - 441,775 articles covering 1875-1887, 1889-1895, 1897-1904, 1907-1910
    Crewe Chronicle - 1874-1887 and 1889-1972
    Hyde & Glossop Weekly News, and North Cheshire Herald – 1875 plus others
    North Cheshire Herald,
    Cheshire Observer – 1901-1913, 1919-1938, 1946-1949, 1951-1979
    Vulcan XH558 - “Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.”

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