Woodford, Cheshire Genealogy

Guide to Woodford, Cheshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
WOODFORD, a township, in the parish of Prestbury, union and hundred of Macclesfield, N. division of the county of Chester, 6 miles (S. by W.) from Stockport.

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Church Records
Woodford Parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials have online indexes by the following groups:

Woodford was founded in 1842 as a chapel to Prestbury and made a Parish in 1873.

Here is a list of parish registers on microfilm at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City.

Parish registers for Woodford, Cheshire, 1842-1935 Cheshire Record Office call no.: P148/1-3.

Bishop's transcripts for Woodford, 1842-1892 Cheshire Record Office: EDB 227

Non-Conformist Churches
Not Known
 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

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

Registration Districts

 * Macclesfield (1837-1939)

Poor Law Unions

 * Macclesfield

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

Maps and Gazetteers
See a gazetteer description of Adlington at Vision of Britain.