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Parish History

TARPORLEY (St. Helen), is a market-town and parish, in the union of Nantwich, First division of the hundred of Eddisbury, South division of the county of Chester; containing, with the townships of Eaton, Rushton, and Utkinton, is 10½ miles (E. S. E.) from Chester.  There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.^[1]

Tarporley St Helen's is an Ancient Parish in Cheshire including Eaton, Rushton and Utkinton.

The first documentary evidence of a church on this site is in 1287. The earliest parts of the present church are the two chapels which date from the 15th century. The rest of the church has been altered in a series of restorations. The Arderne (north) chapel was remodelled in 1861, the Utkinton (south) chapel in 1865.

Tarporley was a township in Tarporley Parish, Eddisbury Hundred, which became a civil parish in 1866. In 1936 part of Eaton (near Tarporley) was added to Tarporley.
It included the hamlets of Arderne (part), Birch Heath, Cobblers Green and Rhuddall Heath.
Tarporley is a large village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. Tarporley civil parish also contains the village of Rhuddall Heath.

Resources

Civil Registration

Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

Registration Districts

• Nantwich (1837–92)
• Chester (1892–1937)
• Northwich (1937–74)
• Vale Royal (1974–98)
• Cheshire Central (1998–2009)
• Cheshire West (post 2009)
  

registration events may be searched online at Cheshire BMD

Church records

Tarporley parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials have been indexed by the following groups:

To find the names of the neighbouring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Parish registers for Tarporley, Cheshire, 1558-1923 Cheshire Record Office reference: P22/1/1-6, P22/2/1-4, P22/3/1-5, P22/5/1-2, P22/6-7.

An index for Cheshire parish registers is available online at FamilySearch Historical Records.

Bishop's transcripts for Tarporley, 1600-1864 Text in Latin and English.
Records are not in strict chronological order. Some years are missing.

An index for Cheshire, Church of England, Bishop’s Transcripts (Diocese of Chester) is available online at FamilySearch Historical Records.

Non-Conformist Churches

• Tarporley, St. Thomas a Becket (Roman Catholic), Nantwich Road/Eaton Road. Founded 1938.
• Tarporley Baptist Union Chapel. Founded 1817, Built in 1866.
• Tarporley, Methodist Chapel (Wesleyan). Built in 1791, rebuilt in 1867, closed in 1976. Registers 1839–1894 are at the Cheshire Record Office.
• Tarporley, Methodist Chapel (Primitive). Built in 1846.

Non-Conformist Records:

Cheshire Record Office Reference EMS 253  Tarporley Wesleyan Methodist Chapel Registers 1902-75, Various records 1834-1961 URL http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=017-ems253&cid=0

Church records for the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Tarporley, 1839-1894, 1902-1961 Cheshire Record Office call nos.: ZCR 55/129, EMS 253/1/1.

An index for Cheshire Non-conformist records is available online at FamilySearch Historical Records.

Church records for the Tarporley Wesleyan Methodist Circuit, 1839-1929 Localities include Tarporley, Eaton, Eddisbury, Tarvin, Tattenhall, Rushton, Crewe, Burton, Alpraham, Acton, Bickerton, Duddon, Bunbury, Calveley, Ashton, Clotton, Little Budworth, Kelsall, Beeston, Tilstone, Oscroft, Willington, Hoofield, Spurston, Wardle, Woodworth Green, Ellesmere Port, Rushton, Birch Heath,Cheshire Record Office reference: EMC 16/4/1-2.

An index for Cheshire Non-conformist records is available online at FamilySearch Historical Records.

Census records

Census records from 1841-1891 are available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library. The first film number is 241236. To view these census images online, they are available through the following websites for a fee ($) or free:

• FamilySearch has some of the British Censuses available.
• FindMyPast ($) has all available census records including images, and is free at Family History Centers and the Family History Library and some public and academic libraries.
• Ancestry.co.uk ($) has now all available census records but free at Family History Centers and the Family History Library and at numerous public and academic libraries. The library versions are known as AncestryInstitution.com.
• The Genealogist.co.uk ($) has all available censuses and is free at Family History Centers and the Family History Library and various other libraries.
• FreeCen is a UK census searches. It is not complete and individuals are always asked to consider helping out with transcriptions.
  

Probate records

Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Cheshire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Poor Law Unions

• Nantwich Poor Law Union 1837-1892
• Tarvin (previously Great Boughton) Poor Law Union, Cheshire 1892-1930
  

Maps and Gazetteers

Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.

• England Jurisdictions 1851
• Vision of Britain

Web sites

References

This section requires expansion with: any additional relevant sites that aren't mentioned above.

Bibliography

Richards, Raymond (1947), Old Cheshire Churches, London: Batsford, pp. 317–321
Salter, Mark (1995), The Old Parish Churches of Cheshire, Malvern: Folly Publications, pp. 72–73, ISBN 1871731232
Pevsner, Nikolaus; Edward Hubbard (2003) [1971], The Buildings of England: Cheshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, pp. 350–351, ISBN 0 300 09588 0

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