Tilstone Fearnall, Cheshire Family History Guide

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

Alternative names: Tilston Fearnall

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

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

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

Cemeteries

St. Jude’s Church, Tilstone Fearnall, Cheshire, monumental inscriptions Author: Family History Society of Cheshire

Census

Census returns for Tilstone-Fearnall, 1841-1891

Taxation

Land tax assessments for Eddisbury hundred, 1785-1790, 1815-1819 Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Cheshire); Cheshire Record Office

Land tax assessments for Tilston Fearnall, 1785-1832 Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Cheshire); Cheshire Record Office

Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

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