Brinksway Cheshire Family History Guide
Brinksway, also known as Stockport St Augustine, an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Cheshire created in 1893 from Cheadle Ancient Parish, Stockport St Matthew Ecclesiastical Parish and Stockport St Peter Ecclesiastical Parish. The parish served the areas of Brinksway and Cheadle Heath. In 2007 St Augustine’s church was closed and the parish united with Stockport St Matthew as Edgeley and Cheadle Heath.
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Brinksway Parish Registers
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Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records
These records include images of Church of England parish registers of baptism, marriage, and burial records.
Stockport St Augustine, Cheshire Church of England Baptisms, 1887-1950
Marriage and Banns Records
These records include images of Church of England parish registers of marriages and banns records.
Stockport St Augustine, Cheshire Church of England Marriages and Banns 1894-1947
Parish History
Kelly’s Directory of Cheshire 1914
BRINKSWAY-CUM-CHEADLE HEATH is an ecclesiastical parish on the west, formed out of the parishes of St. Matthew and St. Mary the Virgin, Cheadle. The church of St. Augustine, built in 1893, is a structure of red brick in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, north porch and a turret containing one bell : there are 530 sittings. The register dates from the year 1893. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the gift of the Bishop of Chester, net yearly value £290, with residence, and held since 1908 by the Rev. Francis Edward Hicks M.A. of St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge. A Sunday school was built in 1904 at a cost of £1,700.
Historical Maps
British National Grid Ref: SJ 87836 89559
BNG Eastings, Northings: 387836, 389559
Latitude, Longitude: 53.402707, -2.184423
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Alan Godfrey Old Ordnance Survey Maps
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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
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