Rainow, Cheshire Family History Guide

Rainow is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Cheshire, created in 1785 from a chapelry in Prestbury Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Harrop.

Alternative names:

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1765
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1765

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist Association.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

RAINOW, a village, a township-chapelry, and a sub-district, in Cheshire. The village stands 2¾ miles N E of Macclesfield r. station; and is much scattered.

The chapelry contains also Harrop hamlet, is in Prestbury parish, and comprises 5,750 acres. Post-town, Macclesfield. Real property, £7,619; of which £86 are in quarries, and £60 in mines. Pop., 1,550. Houses, 331. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Chester. Value, £120. Patron, the Vicar of Prestbury. The church is recent; is in the pointed style; and consists of nave, three aisles, and transept, with pinnacled tower.

There are a Wesleyan chapel, a national school, and charities £10.

The sub-district contains also two other townships of Prestbury parish, and all Taxal parish; and is in Macclesfield district. Acres, 15,995. Pop., 3,478. Houses, 730.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Cheshire, Rainow – Cemeteries ( 3 )
Gravestone inscriptions of Rainow Church of England, together with Pleasance Graveyard, indexed & recorded at end of Rainow Church
Author: Way, Derek H.; North Cheshire Family History Society

Gravestone inscriptions of Rainow Methodist chapel
Author: Carter, Margaret

The memorial inscriptions on graves in four burial grounds near Macclesfield
Author: Macclesfield Ferrets

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

England, Cheshire, Rainow – Church records ( 8 )
An alphabetical list of baptisms 14 Dec. 1765 – 29 Nov. 1840 recorded in the registers of Holy Trinity Rainow, County of Cheshire, U.K. (Macclesfield Hundred)
Author: Armitt, Richard; Church of England. Parish Church of Rainow (Cheshire); North Cheshire Family History Society

Bishop’s transcripts for Rainow, 1765-1894
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Rainow (Cheshire); Cheshire Record Office

Bishop’s transcripts for Saltersford-cum-Kettleshulme, 1813-1890
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Saltersford-cum-Kettleshulme (Cheshire); Cheshire Record Office

Church records for the Wesleyan Methodist Church, Rainow, 1808-1836, 1912-1956
Author: Rainow Chapel (Cheshire : Wesleyan Methodist); Great Britain. Public Record Office; Cheshire Record Office

Parish of Holy Trinity, Rainow, County of Cheshire, U.K. (Macclesfield Hundred) : burials, 1815-1959
Author: Horbury, Barbara; Church of England. Parish Church of Rainow (Cheshire)

Parish registers for Rainow with Saltersford parish, 1765-1992
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Rainow-with-Saltersford (Cheshire); Cheshire Record Office

Parish registers for Saltersford Chapelry, 1813-1996
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Saltersford-cum-Kettleshulme (Cheshire); Cheshire Record Office

Rainow, Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, burials, 1826-37 & 1905-97
Author: Slater, Brian; Slater, Rovy; Rainow Chapel (Cheshire : Wesleyan Methodist)

England, Cheshire, Rainow – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Computer printout of Rainow, Wesleyan, Chesh., Eng

England, Cheshire, Rainow – History ( 1 )
The history and Hulley families of The One House, Rainow, near Macclesfield, Cheshire
Author: Hulley, Ray

England, Cheshire, Rainow – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Constables’ accounts for Rainow, 1848-1889
Author: Rainow (Cheshire : township)

England, Cheshire, Rainow – Taxation ( 3 )
Constables’ accounts for Rainow, 1848-1889
Author: Rainow (Cheshire : township)

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 Rainow, 1784-1831
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: Macclesfield
  • 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: Macclesfield
  • Hundred: Macclesfield
  • Province: York