Ringway, Cheshire Family History Guide

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Ringway St Mary and All Saints is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Cheshire, created in 1722 from Bowdon Ancient Parish.

Alternative names: Ringey

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1783
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1786

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Ringway St Mary and All Saints 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.

Ringway St. Mary and All Saints, Cheshire Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1751-1812

Ringway St Mary and All Saints, Cheshire Church of England Bishop’s Transcripts – Baptisms, Marriages and Burials – 1786-1892

Ringway St Mary and All Saints, Cheshire Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1959

Ringway St Mary and All Saints, Cheshire Church of England Bishop’s Transcripts – Baptisms – 1786-1892

Marriage and Banns Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers of marriages and banns records.

Ringway St Mary and All Saints, Cheshire Church of England Marriages and Banns 1864-1967

Hale Barns St Paul, Cheshire Church of England Marriages and Banns 1917-1965

Death and Burial Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers of deaths and burial records.

Ringway St Mary and All Saints, Cheshire Church of England Burials 1826-1992

Ringway St Mary and All Saints, Cheshire Church of England Bishop’s Transcripts – Burials, 1786-1892

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

RINGEY, or Ringway, a chapelry in Bowdon parish, Cheshire; adjacent to the river Bollin, 3 miles W of Handforth r. station, and 3½ S E of Altrincham. It was constituted in 1863; and its post town is Altrincham, Cheshire. Pop., 650. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Chester. Value, £118. Patron, Lord Egerton. The church was rebuilt in 1720, and was recently restored.

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

Historical Maps

British National Grid Ref: SJ 80891 84717
BNG Eastings, Northings: 380891, 384717
Latitude, Longitude: 53.358979, -2.288583

View detailed 19th-century Ordnance Survey maps from the National Library of Scotland Maps – includes OS 25 inch 1892-1918 maps, a vast range of other historical OS maps and land use maps. These maps reveal old street layouts, parish boundaries, and landmarks long since vanished.

Alan Godfrey Old Ordnance Survey Maps

Chester and Central Cheshire 1905 One Inch Sheet 109

The full range of Cheshire maps produced by Alan Godfrey are available in the Cheshire Maps section of the Books & Maps area. There you can search by principal villages and parishes, by key features for town and city plans, and sort the maps by type and scale. Coverage is taken from the places listed in Alan Godfrey’s own map descriptions, although smaller parishes may not be explicitly named. View all the Cheshire & District Alan Godfrey Maps.

Administration

  • County: Cheshire
  • Civil Registration District: Altrincham
  • 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: Altrincham
  • Hundred: Bucklow
  • Province: York