Norbury, Cheshire Family History Guide

Norbury is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Cheshire, created in 1737 from a chapelry in Stockport St Mary Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Hazlegrove.

Alternative names: Norbury near Stockport

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1829
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1829

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Methodist, and Primitive Methodist.

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Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

NORBURY, a village, a township, and a chapelry, in Stockport parish, Cheshire. The village stands adjacent to the Stockport and Buxton railway, and near an affluent of the river Mersey, 1 mile SE of Hazlegrove r.station, and 3 SE of Stockport.

The township contains also part of the village of Hazlegrove, which has a post-office under Stockport. Acres, 1,410. Real property, £7,172; of which £3,200 are in mines. Pop. in 1851, 848; in 1861, 1,305. Houses, 248. The manor belongs to W J Legh, Esq. Coal is largely worked.

The chapelry is less extensive than the township, and was constituted in 1842. Pop. in 1861, 994. Houses, 192. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Chester. Value, £140. Patron, W. J. Legh, Esq. The church was built in 1834; is in the pointed style; comprises nave and aisles, with a low tower; and has a painted E window. There is a national school.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

Norbury

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

England, Cheshire, Norbury (near Stockport) – Church history ( 1 )
The Norbury Parish story
Author: Turner, N. H.

England, Cheshire, Norbury (near Stockport) – Church records ( 5 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Norbury, 1829-1877
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Norbury (near Stockport, Cheshire); Cheshire Record Office

Bishop’s transcripts for Poynton and Norbury, 1723-1864
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Poynton (Cheshire); Church of England. Chapelry of Norbury (near Stockport, Cheshire); Cheshire Record Office

Parish of St. Thomas, Norbury (Hazel Grove)
Author: Cresswell, Roger; Church of England. Chapelry of Norbury (near Stockport, Cheshire); Slater, Brian; Slater, Rovy

Parish registers for Poynton, 1723-1959
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Poynton (Cheshire); Church of England. Chapelry of Norbury (near Stockport, Cheshire); Cheshire Record Office

Parish registers from Norbury, near Stockport, 1829-1968
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Norbury (near Stockport, Cheshire); Cheshire Record Office

England, Cheshire, Norbury (near Stockport) – Manors – Inventories, registers, catalogs ( 1 )
Hand-list of the Legh of Booths charters in the John Rylands Library
Author: John Rylands Library (Manchester, England); Taylor, F.

England, Cheshire, Norbury (near Stockport) – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Assessment rate for the relief of the poor for Norbury, Cheshire, 1838-1861
Author: Norbury (near Stockport, Cheshire)

England, Cheshire, Norbury (near Stockport) – Taxation ( 3 )
Assessment rate for the relief of the poor for Norbury, Cheshire, 1838-1861
Author: Norbury (near Stockport, Cheshire)

Land tax assessments for Macclesfield hundred, 1784-1787, 1815-1819
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Cheshire); Cheshire Record Office

Land tax assessments for Norbury (in Stockport) [Norbury, near Stockport], 1780-1831
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Cheshire); Cheshire Record Office

Hazlegrove

Use for:
England, Cheshire, Bullock-Smithy
England, Cheshire, Hazel Grove

England, Cheshire, Hazlegrove – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Hazel Grove Bullock Smithy Ebenezer baptisms & burials, 1828-March 1837
Author: North Cheshire Family History Society; Ebenezer Chapel (Hazlegrove, Cheshire : Congregational); Singleton, Glennys

England, Cheshire, Hazlegrove – Census – 1891 – Indexes ( 1 )
1891 census surname & location index, Stockport registration district, Cheshire, U. K. : includes sub districts of Marple, Hyde, Heaton Norris, Cheadle & Hazel Grove
Author: North Cheshire Family History Society

England, Cheshire, Hazlegrove – Church history ( 1 )
Hazel Grove Methodist Church, 1786-1986
Author: Dolbey, George W.

England, Cheshire, Hazlegrove – Church records ( 8 )
Baptisms at Methodist Church, Hazel Grove, Stockport 1794-1879
Author: North Cheshire Family History Society; Hazel Grove Methodist Church (Stockport, Cheshire)

Baptisms solemnized in the United Methodist Free Chapel, Hazel Grove, in the parish of Bramhall : from 22nd October 1878 to 27th January 1914
Author: United Methodist Free Chapel (Hazlegrove, Cheshire)

Church records, 1793-1837
Author: Methodist Church (Bullock-Smithy, Cheshire)

Church records, 1828-1837
Author: Ebenezer Chapel (Hazlegrove, Cheshire : Congregational)

Register of baptisms for the Refuge Chapel United Methodist Church, Hazlegrove, Cheshire, 1836-1886
Author: Refuge Chapel (Hazlegrove, Cheshire : United Methodist)

Stockport Circuit, Hazel Grove Wesleyan; burials, 1837-1910 & baptisms, 1879-1895
Author: Hazel Grove Methodist Church (Stockport, Cheshire); North Cheshire Family History Society

England, Cheshire, Hazlegrove – Church records – Indexes ( 4 )
Computer printout of Bullocksmithy, Wesleyan Methodist, Chesh., Eng

Computer printout of Hazelgrove, Ebenezer Congregational or Independent, Chesh., Eng

Parish register printouts of Bullock-Smithy, Cheshire, England (Wesleyan Methodist) ; christenings, 1798-1837
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

Parish register printouts of Hazelgrove and Bramhall, Cheshire, England ; christenings, 1827-1837
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

England, Cheshire, Hazlegrove – History ( 1 )
The story of Hazel Grove and Bramhall : a local history
Author: Speake, Robert

Maps

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Administration

County: Cheshire
Civil Registration District: Stockport
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: Stockport
Hundred: Macclesfield
Province: York