Ashley, Cheshire Genealogy

England Cheshire  Cheshire Parishes Ashley 

Guide to Ashley, Cheshire family history and genealogy: parish registers (baptism, christening, marriage, and burial records), civil registration (birth, marriage, and death records), census records, history, wills, cemetery, online transcriptions and indexes, an interactive map and websites.

Parish History
ASHLEY, a township, in theparish of Bowdon, union of Altrincham, hundred of Bucklow, N. division of Cheshire, 5 miles (N. N. E.) from Knutsford; containing 377 inhabitants."Samuel A Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 88-90". "Date accessed 30 Jan 2013"

ASHLEY, a township in Bowdon parish, Cheshire. A school church was built in 1864; and a Wesleyan chapel in 1839.

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from 1 July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. Here are two excellent Internet sites with birth, marriage and death indexes available:


 * FreeBMD
 * Cheshire BMD

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.

see also England Cheshire Probate Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)