Tattenhall St Alban Cheshire Family History Guide

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Tattenhall St Alban is an Ancient Parish in the county of Cheshire.

Other places in the parish include: Golbourn Bellow, Newton by Tattenhall, and Golborne Bellow.

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1654
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1579

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Tattenhall 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.

Tattenhall St Alban, Cheshire Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1654-1812

Tattenhall St Alban, Cheshire Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1942

Marriage and Banns Records

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

Tattenhall St Alban, Cheshire Church of England Marriages and Banns 1763-1947

Tattenhall St Alban, Cheshire Church of England Bishop’s Transcripts – Marriages and Banns – 1751-1902

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

TATTENHALL, a village, a township, a parish, and a sub-district, in Great Boughton district, Cheshire. The village stands 1 mile S of the Chester and Crewe railway, and 8 SE of Chester; contains many good residences; and has a post-office under Chester, a r. station, subscription reading rooms, and fairs on 21 May and 18 Nov. The township comprises 2,906 acres. Real property, £6,743. Pop., 1,033. Houses, 216. The manor belongs to R. Barbour, Esq.

The parish includes two other townships, and comprises 4,134 acres. Pop., 1,262. Houses, 255. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chester. Value, £300. The church is ancient but good. There are Independent and Methodist chapels, a national school, and charities £23. The sub-district contains ten parishes, and parts of four other s. Acres, 34,688. Pop., 7,539. Houses, 1,480.

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 48646 58607
BNG Eastings, Northings: 348646, 358607
Latitude, Longitude: 53.122151, -2.768827

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.

Chester and Central Cheshire 1905: One Inch Sheet 109 (Old Ordnance Survey Maps - Inch to the Mile) This One Inch to the Mile map covers an area of central Cheshire, stretching from Chester itself eastward to Northwich, and from Weaverham southward to Tattenhall. On the reverse is a detailed map of Tattenhall, together with a short directory. View Map Details*
Chester and Central Cheshire 1905: One Inch Sheet 109 (Old Ordnance Survey Maps - Inch to the Mile)

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: Malpas
  • Poor Law Union: Great Boughton
  • Hundred: Broxton
  • Province: York

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