Lostock Gralam, Cheshire Family History Guide

Lostock Gralam is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Cheshire, created in 1842 from Great Budworth Ancient Parish and Witton Ecclesiastical Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Hulse, Lach Dennis, Lostock Green, Rudheath, and Wincham.

Alternative names:

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1844
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1892

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

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

LOSTOCK-GRALAM, a village and a township in Great Budworth parish, and a chapelry partly also in Davenham parish, Cheshire.

The village stands on an affluent of the river Weaver, adjacent to the Altrincham and Northwich railway, 2 miles ENE of Northwich; and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Knutsford. The township contains also the hamlet of Lostock-Green, and comprises 1,706 acres. Real property, £3,654. Pop., 467. Houses, 97.

The manor belonged anciently to the family of Hame; passed to Hugh Lupus, Earl of Chester; was given by him to Hugh de Runchamp, whose son Gralam assumed from it the name of Lostock: passed from the Lostocks to the Holfords: went afterwards to the Brookes; and belongs now to W. L. Brooke, Esq.

The chapelry includes also the townships of Wincham, Hulse, and Lach-Dennis, and part of the lordship of Rudheath; and was constituted in 1844. Pop., 1,294. Houses, 273. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Chester. Value, £120. Patron, the Incumbent of Witton. The church is a brick edifice of 1844; and consists of nave, aisles, and chancel.

A Wesleyan chapel is at Lostock-Green; and a national school is near the church.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Cheshire, Lostock-Gralam – Cemeteries ( 1 )
A transcript of the monumental inscriptions of St. John the Evangelist, Lostock Gralam
Author: Noble, Vacky; Family History Society of Cheshire

England, Cheshire, Lostock-Gralam – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Lostock-Gralam, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Cheshire, Lostock-Gralam – Church records ( 2 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Lostock-Gralam, 1892
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Lostock-Gralam (Cheshire); Cheshire Record Office

Parish registers for Lostock-Gralam, 1844-1942
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Lostock-Gralam (Cheshire); Cheshire Record Office

England, Cheshire, Lostock-Gralam – Schools ( 1 )
School registers for Lostock-Gralam, 1867-1946
Author: Lostock-Gralam School (Cheshire); Lincolnshire Archives Office (England); Cheshire Record Office

England, Cheshire, Lostock-Gralam – Taxation ( 2 )
Land tax assessments for Lostock Gralam, 1784-1831
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

Hulse

England, Cheshire, Hulse – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Hulse, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Cheshire, Hulse – Taxation ( 2 )
Land tax assessments for Hulse, 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

Lach Dennis

England, Cheshire, Lach-Dennis – Cemeteries ( 1 )
A transcript of the monumental inscriptions of St. Michael’s Church, Little Leigh, and All Saints Church, Lach Dennis, Cheshire
Author: Bullock, Michael R.; Family History Society of Cheshire

England, Cheshire, Lach-Dennis – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Lach-Dennis, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Cheshire, Lach-Dennis – Church records ( 1 )
Parish registers for Lach-Dennis, 1896-1970
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Lach-Dennis (Cheshire)

England, Cheshire, Lach-Dennis – Taxation ( 2 )
Land tax assessments for Lach-Dennis, 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

Rudheath

England, Cheshire, Rudheath – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Rudheath, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Cheshire, Rudheath – Church records ( 1 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Byley-with-Lees, 1855-1903
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Byley-with-Lees (Cheshire); Cheshire Record Office

England, Cheshire, Rudheath – Taxation ( 2 )
Land tax assessments for Northwich hundred, 1781-1785, 1815-1819
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Cheshire); Cheshire Record Office

Land tax assessments for Rudheath, 1781-1831
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Cheshire); Cheshire Record Office

Wincham

England, Cheshire, Wincham – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Wincham, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Cheshire, Wincham – Church records ( 1 )
Church records for the Wincham United Methodist Free Church, 1869-1957
Author: United Methodist Free Church (Wincham, Cheshire); Cheshire Record Office

England, Cheshire, Wincham – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments for Wincham, 1780-1831
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Cheshire); Cheshire Record Office

Maps

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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: Frodsham
  • Poor Law Union: Northwich
  • Hundred: Northwich
  • Province: York