High Lane St Thomas Cheshire Family History Guide
High Lane St Thomas an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Cheshire created in 1860 from Poynton with Worth Ecclesiastical Parish, Marple Ecclesiastical Parish, Stockport St Mary Ancient Parish, and Norbury Ecclesiastical Parish. In 1871 the ecclesiastical boundary of High Lane parish was altered with the refounding of Poynton with Worth Ecclesiastical Parish as Poynton Ecclesiastical Parish.
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High Lane St Thomas 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.
High Lane St Thomas, Cheshire Church of England Baptisms, 1860-1968
Marriage and Banns Records
These records include images of Church of England parish registers of marriages and banns records.
High Lane St Thomas, Cheshire Church of England Marriages and Banns 1861-1942
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
HIGH LANE, a chapelry in the parishes of Prestbury and Stockport, Cheshire; near the North-western railway, 4½ miles S of Stockport. It was constituted in 1860; and it has a post office under Stockport. Pop., 1, 193. Houses, 225. Pop. of the Stockport portion, 1, 135. Houses, 215. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Chester. Value, not reported. Patron, the Rector of Stockport. The church was opened in 1859, and is in the Norman style. There is a national school.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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
