Church Hulme St Luke Cheshire Family History Guide
Church Hulme St Luke is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Cheshire, created in 1733 from a chapelry in Sandbach Ancient Parish.
Other places in the parish include: Cranage.
Alternative names: Holmes Chapel
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1613
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1576
Nonconformists include: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Independent/Congregational, Wesleyan Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist Association.
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Adjacent Parishes
Church Hulme Parish Registers
Search online registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials including digitised images of original records and registers and indexed transcriptions.
Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records
These records include images of Church of England parish registers of baptism, marriage, and burial records.
Church Hulme (Holmes Chapel), St. Luke, Cheshire Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1923
Marriage and Banns Records
These records include images of Church of England parish registers of marriages and banns records.
Church Hulme (Holmes Chapel), St. Luke, Cheshire Church of England Marriages and Banns 1754-1941
Death and Burial Records
These records include images of Church of England parish registers of deaths and burial records.
Church Hulme (Holmes Chapel), St. Luke, Cheshire Church of England Burials 1813-1961
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
CHURCH-HULME, a township-chapelry and a sub-district, in Congleton district, Cheshire. The chapelry lies on the river Dane, and on the Manchester and Birmingham railway, 6½ miles WNW of Congleton; is in the parish of Sandbach; bears also the name of Holmes-Chapel; and has a station of that name on the railway, and a post office of the same name under Middlewich. Acres, 864. Real property, £2,741. Pop., 573. Houses, 125. The property is divided among a few.
The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Chester. Value, £120. Patron, the Vicar of Sandbach. The church is old but good. There are a Wesleyan chapel, and charities £16. The sub-district contains six townships of Sandbach parish, two other parishes, and part of another. Acres, 12,600. Pop., 2,514. Houses, 485.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Historical Maps
Alan Godfrey Old Ordnance Survey Maps
The full range of Cheshire maps produced by Alan Godfrey are available in the Cheshire Maps section of the Books & Maps area. There you can search by principal villages and parishes, by key features for town and city plans, and sort the maps by type and scale. Coverage is taken from the places listed in Alan Godfrey’s own map descriptions, although smaller parishes may not be explicitly named. View all the Cheshire & District Alan Godfrey Maps.
Administration
- County: Cheshire
- Civil Registration District: Congleton
- Probate Court: Pre-1541 – Court of the Bishop of Lichfield (Episcopal Consistory), Post-1540 – Court of the Bishop of Chester (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Pre-1541 – Lichfield and Coventry, Post-1540 – Chester
- Rural Deanery: Middlewich
- Poor Law Union: Congleton
- Hundred: Northwich
- Province: York
Sources
The following sources have been used to compile this article.
- F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991)
- FamilySearch Research Wiki – Cheshire, England Genealogy
- Cheshire Archives and Local Studies Catalogue
- Ancestry.co.uk
