Stockport Hall Street Cheshire Family History Guide
Stockport Hall Street, also known as Stockport St Alban, an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Cheshire created July 17th 1893 from Stockport St Mary Ancient Parish and Bredbury Ecclesiastical Parish. Stockport St Alban was initially created in 1877 as a chapel to Stockport St Mary. In 1893 it was created an Ecclesiastical Parish known as Stockport Hall Street, situated on Offerton Lane, Stockport.
Ecclesiastical Parishes created from Stockport Hall Street parish include:
- Stockport St Saviour Ecclesiastical Parish created in 1934
Stockport Hall Street location:
- British National Grid Ref: SJ 91200 89599
- BNG Eastings, Northings: 391200, 389599
- Latitude, Longitude: 53.403141, -2.133822
Parish registers begin: 1877
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Stockport Hall Street 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.
Stockport St. Alban, Cheshire Church of England Baptisms, 1877-1935
Marriage and Banns Records
These records include images of Church of England parish registers of marriages and banns records.
Stockport St Alban, Cheshire Church of England Marriages and Banns 1900-1951
Parish History
Kelly’s Directory of Cheshire 1914
St. Alban’s, Offerton lane, is an ecclesiastical parish, formed July 17, 1893, out of parts of the parishes of St. Mary’s, Stockport, and St. Mark’s, Bredbury. The church was erected in 1899 at a cost of about £5,000. The register dates from the year 1877. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value, £225, in the gift of the Bishop of Chester, and held since 1912 by the Rev. Martin Hill Ridgway B.A. of St. David’s College, Lampeter.
Historical Maps
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.
Sources
The following sources have been used to compile this article.
- F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991)
- FamilySearch Research Wiki – Cheshire, England Genealogy
- Cheshire Archives and Local Studies Catalogue
- Ancestry.co.uk
County Maps
The Godfrey Edition reprints of Old Ordnance Survey Maps are invaluable for historians and genealogists. Many are taken from the highly detailed 1:2500 plans, reprinted at about 14 inches to the mile, showing individual houses, railways, factories, churches, mills, canals. Each map includes historical notes on the area. Alongside these large‑scale sheets, Alan Godfrey also publishes the smaller‑scale Inch‑to‑the‑Mile series, and a range of maps based on the OS five‑foot plans.
