Goostrey, Cheshire Family History Guide

Goostrey is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Cheshire, created in 1724 from Goostrey cum Barnshaw chapelry in Sandbach Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Blackden.

Alternative names: Goostree cum Barnshaw, Goostrey cum Barnshaw

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1561
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1576

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

GOOSTREY-CUM-BARNSHAW, a township-chapelry in Sandbach parish, Cheshire; near the river Dane, 3 miles NNW of Holmes-Chapel r. station, and 6 S of Knutsford. Post town, Holmes-Chapel, under Middlewich.

Acres, 1,697. Real property, £2,741. Pop., 268. Houses, 51.

The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Chester. Value, £175. Patron, the Vicar of Sandbach. The church is modern, on the site of an ancient one.

There are a national school, in the Tudor style, and charities £8.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Cheshire, Goostrey-cum-Barnshaw – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Goostrey-with-Barnshaw, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Cheshire, Goostrey-cum-Barnshaw – Church records ( 4 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Goostry-cum-Barnshaw, 1576-1860
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Goostry-cum-Barnshaw (Cheshire); Cheshire Record Office

Parish chest materials, 1635-1773
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Goostry-cum-Barnshaw (Cheshire)

Parish registers for Goostry-cum-Barnshaw, 1561-1964
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Goostry-cum-Barnshaw (Cheshire); Cheshire Record Office

Transcripts of registers, vestry minutes and town book for the chapelry of Goostrey-cum-Barnshaw, 1561-1938
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Goostry-cum-Barnshaw (Cheshire); Cheshire Record Office

England, Cheshire, Goostrey-cum-Barnshaw – Manors ( 1 )
Manorial records, 1621
Author: Manor of Barnshaw. Court (Goostrey-cum-Barnshaw, Cheshire)

England, Cheshire, Goostrey-cum-Barnshaw – Schools ( 1 )
School registers, 1899-1952
Author: Goostrey Church of England School (Cheshire); Lincolnshire Archives Office (England); Cheshire Record Office

England, Cheshire, Goostrey-cum-Barnshaw – Taxation ( 2 )
Land tax assessments for Goostrey-cum-Barnshaw, 1781-1831
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Cheshire); Cheshire Record Office

Land tax assessments for Northwich hundred, 1781-1785, 1815-1819
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Cheshire); Cheshire Record Office

Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

Administration

  • County: Cheshire
  • Civil Registration District: Northwich
  • 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