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.
Table of Contents
Adjacent Parishes
- Macclesfield St Peter
- Macclesfield St Paul
- Pott Shrigley
- Macclesfield St Michael
- Taxal
- Macclesfield Forest with Wildboarclough
- Prestbury
- Bollington
- Hurdsfield
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