Whitchurch, Cheshire Family History Guides

Whitchurch is an Ancient Parish mostly in Shropshire and partly in Cheshire. Marbury is a chapelry of Whitchurch.

Other places in the parish include: Norbury and Wirswall.

Alternative names: Whitchurch with Tilstock

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1627
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1674

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WHITCHURCH, a town in Salop, a parish partly also in Cheshire, a district partly likewise in Flint, but all registrationally in Salop, and a division electorally in Salop.

The town stands at the terminus of a short branch of the Ellesmere canal, and at the junction of the railways from Shrewsbury and Oswestry to Crewe, 19 miles N by E of Shrewsbury.

It was anciently called Blancminster; had an hospital before the time of Henry II., and an ancient castle; is a seat of petty-sessions and county-courts, and a polling place; occupies a gentle eminence, amid pleasant environs; was recently improved by the formation of sewage-works.

It carries on brewing, malting, iron-founding, and machine-making; and has a head post-office, r. stations with telegraph, two banking-offices, three chief inns, a police station, a town hall, a newsroom, a church rebuilt in 1713, four dissenting chapels, an endowed grammar-school with £459 a year, another endowed school with £50, a working men’s club, a young men’s institute, alms houses with £216, a workhouse, general charities £209, a weekly market on Friday, and 4 annual fairs. Pop. in 1861, 3,704. Houses, 793.

The parish includes 12 townships in Salop, and one in Cheshire; and comprises 15,416 acres. Real property, £34,477; of which £225 are in gasworks. Pop., 6,093. Houses, 1,280. The manor belongs to Earl Brownlow.

The living is a rectory, united with Marbury, in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £1,458. Patron, Earl Brownlow. A chapel of ease is at Dodington; and the p. curacies of Ash and Tilstock are separate benefices.

The district contains three entire parishes, and a large portion of Malpas parish; is divided into the sub-districts of Whitchurch and Malpas; and was formerly a part of Wem district. Acres, 39,076. Poor rates in 1863, £5,044. Pop., 11,272. Houses, 2,337. Marriages in 1863, 95; births, 384, of which 64 were illegitimate; deaths, 253, of which 87 were at ages under 5 years, and 7 at ages above 85.

The division contains four parishes and a part; and is part of North Bradford hundred. Acres, 30,474. Pop. in 1851, 9,519. Houses, 1,941.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Shropshire, Whitchurch – Cemeteries ( 3 )
Monumental inscriptions of Christ Church, Ash, nr. Whitchurch, Shropshire, 1828-1986
Author:    Andrews, H.; Howell, G. E.; Howell, V. J.

Monumental inscriptions of St. Alkmund’s Church, Whitchurch, Shropshire, 1696-1973
Author:    Barnard, Kathleen; Barnard, Douglas; Youens, Christine; Watton, Margaret E.

Monumental inscriptions of St. Mary’s Church, Neen Savage, Shropshire, 1726-1984
Author:    Berry, Pat; Neen Savage Womens Institute (Shropshire)

England, Shropshire, Whitchurch – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Whitchurch, 1841-1891
Author:    Great Britain. Census Office

England, Shropshire, Whitchurch – Church records ( 19 )
Births and baptisms, 1807-1837
Author:    Dodington Independent Chapel (Whitchurch, Shropshire)

Births, baptisms and burials for the Presbyterian Church (Whitchurch, Shropshire) 1708-1836
Author:    Presbyterian Church (Whitchurch, Shropshire)

Bishop’s transcripts for Tilstock, 1836-1868
Author:    Church of England. Chapelry of Tilstock (Shropshire)

Bishop’s transcripts for Whitchurch, 1674-1858
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Whitchurch (Shropshire); Church of England. Parish Church of Ash (Shropshire); Church of England. Chapelry of Tilstock (Shropshire)

Church records for St. George Protector of England, Whitchurch, 1892-2000
Author:    Catholic Church. St. George Protector of England (Whitchurch, Shropshire)

Church records for the Castle Hill Methodist chapel, Whitchurch, 1934-1952
Author:    Castle Hill Chapel (Whitchurch, Shropshire : Methodist)

Church records for the Wesleyan Methodist Circuit, Whitchurch, 1867-1934
Author:    Wesleyan Methodist Church. Whitchurch Circuit (Shropshire, Cheshire & Flintshire)

Church records for the Yardington Mission Wesleyan Methodist Hall, Whitchurch, 1905-1935
Author:    Yardington Mission Hall (Whitchurch, Shropshire : Wesleyan Methodist)

Doddington Independent Chapel, Whitchurch, Shropshire, register of baptisms, 1807-1837
Author:    Tunna, Gill. M.; Shropshire Family History Society; Dodington Independent Chapel (Whitchurch, Shropshire)

Parish chest records, 1619-1864
Author:    Whitchurch (Shropshire)

Parish register transcripts, 1627-1797
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Whitchurch (Shropshire)

Parish registers for Whitchurch, 1627-1902
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Whitchurch (Shropshire)

Parish registers for Whitchurch, 1889-1923
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Whitchurch (Shropshire)

Register of baptisms and burials, 1823 to 1836
Author:    Dodington Presbyterian/Unitarian Chapel (Whitchurch); Capewell, Janice V.; Shropshire Family History Society

Register of baptisms, 1814-1823 : P.R.O. ref. RG4/2496
Author:    Dodington Presbyterian/Unitarian Chapel (Whitchurch); Turner, E., Mrs.

Register of baptisms, 1838-1867
Author:    Wesleyan Methodist Church (Whitchurch, Shropshire)

Vestry minutes, 1757-1865, and parish valuation survey, 1795
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Whitchurch (Shropshire)

Wesleyan Church, Whitchurch, Shropshire, 1813-1837.
Author:    Wesleyan Church (Whitchurch, Shropshire)

Whitchurch Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Shropshire, register of baptisms, 1813-1837
Author:    Oakley, Eunice; Tunna, Gill. M.; Wesleyan Methodist Church (Whitchurch, Shropshire); Shropshire Family History Society

England, Shropshire, Whitchurch – Church records – Indexes ( 10 )
Computer printout of Tilstock, Shrops., Eng

Computer printout of Whitchurch, Dodington Independent, Shrops., Eng

Computer printout of Whitchurch, Dodington Presbyterian Chapel, Shrops., Eng

Computer printout of Whitchurch, Shrops., Eng

Computer printout of Whitchurch, Wesleyan, Shrops., Eng

Parish register printouts of Whitchurch, Shropshire, England (Independent, Doddington Chapel) ; christenings, 1807-1837
Author:    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

Parish register printouts of Whitchurch, Shropshire, England (Wesleyan) ; christenings, 1813-1837
Author:    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

Parish register printouts of Whitchurch, Shropshire, England ; christenings, 1798-858
Author:    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

Parish register printouts of Whitchurch, Shropshire, England, christenings, 1633-1723
Author:    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

Parish register printouts of Whitchurch, Shropshire, England, christenings, 1724-1797
Author:    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

England, Shropshire, Whitchurch – History ( 3 )
Accounts of the stewards of the Talbot household at Blakemore, 1392-1425
Author:    Ross, Barbara

The history of Whitchurch, Shropshire : with a brief history of ancient Britain & also of the county of Shropshire
Author:    Duggan, T. C.

Whitchurch to Market Drayton : in old photographs
Author:    Morris, Marianne

England, Shropshire, Whitchurch – Land and property ( 1 )
Vestry minutes, 1757-1865, and parish valuation survey, 1795
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Whitchurch (Shropshire)

England, Shropshire, Whitchurch – Obituaries ( 1 )
Parish registers for Whitchurch, 1889-1923
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Whitchurch (Shropshire)

England, Shropshire, Whitchurch – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Parish chest records, 1619-1864
Author:    Whitchurch (Shropshire)

England, Shropshire, Whitchurch – Schools ( 3 )
Log books, 1872-1956, and admission register 1898-1927
Author:    Ash National School (Shropshire)

School log book, 1872-1947
Author:    Broughall Mixed Girls School (Whitchurch, Shropshire)

School log book, 1921-1948
Author:    Grindley Brook Church of England School (Whitchurch, Shropshire)

Administration

  • County:    Cheshire
  • Civil Registration District:    Nantwich
  • Probate Court:    Court of the Bishop of Lichfield (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese:    Lichfield
  • Rural Deanery:    Market Drayton
  • Poor Law Union:    Whitchurch Incorp
  • Hundred:    Nantwich
  • Province:    York