Stoak, Cheshire Family History Guide

Stoak is an Ancient Parish in the county of Cheshire.

Other places in the parish include: Little Stanney.

Alternative names: Stoke, Stoke near Chester

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1573
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1607

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

STOKE, a township in Great Boughton district, and a parish partly also in Wirral district, Cheshire.

The township lies on the Mersey canal, 2½ miles W of Dunham-Hill r. station, and 4¾ N by E of Chester. Acres, 706. Real property, £1,038. Pop., 102. Houses, 15.

The parish contains also Great and Little Stanney townships, and part of Whitby. Post town, Chester. Acres, 2,749. Pop., 431. Houses, 69. The property is divided among a few.

The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Chester. Value, £130. Patron, Sir J. Bunbury, Bart. The church was restored in 1827. Charities, £28.

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

Parish Records

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England, Cheshire, Stoke (near Chester) – Cemeteries ( 2 )
The monumental and other inscriptions in the churches of Stoak, Backford and Thorton-le-Moors in the county of Chester
Author: Rylands, J. Paul (John Paul), b. 1846; Beazley, F. C. (Frank Charles), b. 1856

Stoak churchyard inscriptions
Author: Ward, T. E.

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

England, Cheshire, Stoke (near Chester) – Church records ( 3 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Stoke, 1607-1848
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Stoke (near Chester, Cheshire); Cheshire Record Office

Churchwardens accounts, 1677-1690, 1771-1859
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Stoke (Cheshire)

Parish registers for Stoke, 1573-1964
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Stoke (Cheshire); Cheshire Record Office

England, Cheshire, Stoke (near Chester) – Schools ( 1 )
School registers for Little Stanney, 1908-1946
Author: Little Stanney School (Little Stanney, Cheshire); Cheshire Record Office

England, Cheshire, Stoke (near Chester) – Taxation ( 3 )
Land tax assessments for Stoke [Stoke, near Chester], 1778-1832
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Cheshire); Cheshire Record Office

Land tax assessments for Wirral hundred, 1778-1782, 1817-1819
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Cheshire); Cheshire Record Office

Land tax returns for the township of Little Stanney, 1778-1832
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: Great Boughton
  • 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: Wirral
  • Poor Law Union: Great Boughton
  • Hundred: Wirral
  • Province: York