Woodhead St James Cheshire Family History Guide

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Woodhead St James is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Cheshire, created in 1724 from Mottram in Longendale Ancient Parish.

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1782
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1816

Nonconformists include: Calvinistic Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Woodhead 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.

Woodhead St. James, Cheshire Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1782-1812

Woodhead St James, Cheshire Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1981

Marriage and Banns Records

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

Woodhead St James, Cheshire Church of England Marriages and Banns 1856-1960

Death and Burial Records

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

Woodhead St James, Cheshire Church of England Burials 1813-1992

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WOODHEAD, a chapelry, with a r. station, in Mottram-in-Longendale parish, Cheshire; on the Manchester and Sheffield railway, 5 miles NE of Glossop. Post town. Tintwistle, under Manchester. Pop., 254. The property is all in one estate. Reservoirs of the Manchester water-works are here, with an aggregate area of 401 acres. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Chester. Value, £102. Patron, J. Tollemache, Esq. The church is plain.

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

Historical Maps

British National Grid Ref: SK 07981 99503
BNG Eastings, Northings: 407981, 399503
Latitude, Longitude: 53.492172, -1.881178

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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: Ashton under Lyne
  • 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: Macclesfield
  • Poor Law Union: Ashton Under Lyne
  • Hundred: Macclesfield
  • Province: York

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