Disley St Mary Cheshire Family History Guide

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Disley St Mary is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Cheshire, created in 1741 from a chapelry in Stockport St Mary Ancient Parish and refounded in 1913.

Alternative names: Disley Stanley

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1591
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1604

Nonconformists include: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Disley Buxton Old Road
MARKET STREET, DISLEY

Disley 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.

Disley St Mary, Cheshire Church of England Baptisms Marriages and Burials, 1591-1812

Disley St Mary, Cheshire Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1962

Marriage and Banns Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers of marriages and banns records.

Disley St Mary, Cheshire Church of England Marriages and Banns 1838-1948

Disley Marriages 1591 to 1738-9

The Disley Marriages 1591 to 1738-9 are available free to read online, with options to download the pdf for personal research

Cheshire Parish Registers Marriages V. 1 Cheshire Parish Registers Marriages V. 1 - Disley, Marple, Taxal, Lymm, Christleton, Gawsworth. Cheshire Parish Registers: Marriages Vol. 1 Edited by W. P. W. Phillimore, M.A., B.C.L., and Leopold Choice. Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore & Co. 124, Chancery Lane. 1909. View Free PDF
Cheshire Parish Registers Marriages V. 1

Death and Burial Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers of deaths and burial records.

Disley St Mary, Cheshire Church of England Burials 1813-1874

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

DISLEY, or Disley-Stanley, a township-chapelry in Stockport parish, Cheshire; on the Stockport and Whaley-Bridge railway, adjacent to the Peak Forest canal, at the boundary with Derbyshire, 6¼ miles SE of Stockport. It has a station on the railway, and a post office under Stockport. Acres, 2,700. Real property, £8,774; of which £180 are in quarries. Pop., 2,265. Houses, 455. The property is divided among a few. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Chester. Value, £117. Patron, the Rector of S. The church was rebuilt in 1558; and has stained windows and other decorations. There are a national school and charities £7.

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

Chester and Central Cheshire 1905 One Inch Sheet 109

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: Hayfield
  • 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: Macclesfield
  • Poor Law Union: Hayfield
  • Hundred: Macclesfield
  • Province: York