Tilstone Fearnall, Cheshire Family History Guide

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Tilstone Fearnall St Jude is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Cheshire, created in 1837 from a chapelry in Bunbury Ancient Parish.

Alternative names: Tilston Fearnall

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1838
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: None

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Tilstone Fearnall St Jude 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.

Tilstone Fearnall St Jude, Cheshire Church of England Baptisms, 1848-1901

Marriage and Banns Records

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

Tilstone Fearnall St Jude, Cheshire Church of England Marriages and Banns 1901-1948

Death and Burial Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers of deaths and burial records.

Tilstone Fearnall St Jude, Cheshire Church of England Burials 1848-1985

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

TILSTON-FEARNALL, a township and a chapelry in Bunbury parish, Cheshire. The township lies 1 mile N E of Beeston r. station, and 2 SSE of Tarporley. Acres, 864. Real property, £1,529. Pop., 173. Houses, 32. The manor belongs to J. Tollemache, Esq. T. Lodge is the residence of P. Heywood, Esq. The chapelry was constituted in 1837. Post town, Tarporley. Pop., 1,407. Houses, 262. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Chester. Value, £100. Patron, J. Tollemache, Esq. The church was built in 1836. There is a national school.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

TILSTON-FERNALL, a township, in the parish of Bunbury, union of Nantwich, First division of the hundred of Eddisbury, S. division of the county of Chester, 2¾ miles (S. S. E.) from Tarporley; containing 189 inhabitants. It comprises 821 acres, the soil of which is partly clay and partly sand. A church was built in the year 1836, and endowed at the expense of John Tollemache, Esq.; it is a brick edifice cased with white stone, in the later English style. The living is in the gift of the Tollemache family. The impropriate tithes have been commuted for £70, payable to the Haberdashers’ Company, London.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Historical Maps

British National Grid Ref: SJ 56591 60476
BNG Eastings, Northings: 356591, 360476
Latitude, Longitude: 53.139658, -2.650358

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Alan Godfrey Old Ordnance Survey Maps

Chester and Central Cheshire 1905 One Inch Sheet 109

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Administration

  • County: Cheshire
  • Civil Registration District: Nantwich
  • 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: Nantwich
  • Poor Law Union: Nantwich
  • Hundred: Eddisbury
  • Province: York