Stockport St George Cheshire Family History Guide

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Stockport St George an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Cheshire created in 1897 from Stockport St Thomas Ecclesiastical Parish.

Ecclesiastical Parishes created from Stockport St George parish include:

Stockport St George 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 George (Heaviley), Cheshire Church of England Baptisms, 1897-1941

Marriage and Banns Records

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

Stockport St George (Heaviley), Cheshire Church of England Marriages and Banns 1897-1943

Parish History

Kelly’s Directory of Cheshire 1914

St. George’s is an ecclesiastical parish, formed 6 August, 1897, out of St. Thomas’s : the church, erected during the period 1893-7, and consecrated 25 February in the latter year, is an edifice of red sandstone in the Transitional, Decorated and Perpendicular styles, from designs by Mr. H. Austin, architect, and consists of chancel, with north chapel, vestries and organ chamber, clerestoried nave, aisles and a central tower containing 10 bells : the chancel is groined in stone, and the nave and other portions of the church have open roofs of oak: the reredos and font are of alabaster, and the choir stalls of carved oak, and there is a fine organ : the east and west windows are stained : there are sittings for 2,000 persons.

The register dates from the year 1897. The living is a vicarage, in the gift of five trustees, net yearly value £540, and held since 1896 by the Rev. John Henry Thorpe M.A., B.D. of Trinity College, Dublin. The church, parish rooms, vicarage house and schools were the gifts of the late Major George Fearn J.P. (d. 1911), and the site was presented by the late Capt. W. Christie-Miller J.P., D.L. of Craigentinny, Midlothian. St. Saviour’s, Great Moor, is a chapel of ease to St. George’s, and there is a Mission hall in Hempshaw lane, erected and presented to the parish in 1907 by E. G. Christie-Miller esq.

Historical Maps

British National Grid Ref: SJ 89981 88947
BNG Eastings, Northings: 389981, 388947
Latitude, Longitude: 53.397253, -2.152140

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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

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