St James and St Paul, Marton (near Congleton), Church of England

The church has/had a graveyard.

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It was founded in 1563.

Church History

An ancient chapelry in the parish of Prestbury: St. Peter, which in 1728 became the district church for the township of Marton (formerly served by Prestbury: St. Peter and Gawsworth: St. James). 

Church Records

C = Christenings (Baptisms) ; M = Marriages ; B = Burials ; BTs = Bishop's Transcripts 

Original Registers	C 1563-2000 ; M 1563-1769 ; B 1563-2001 — Cheshire Archives (P 224) C from 2000 ; M from 1889 ; B from 2001 — Church
Microfilm Copies	C 1563-1837 ; M 1563-1769 ; B 1563-1846 — Cheshire Archives ; Family History Society of Cheshire ; Macclesfield Library
Bishop's Transcripts	1622-23, 1625, 1630, 1636, 1639-41, 1663-85, 1687-97, 1704, 1706, 1711, 1714-67, 1769-88, 1791-1860, 1864-93 (microfilmed) ; 1894-1913 — Cheshire Archives
Copies and Indexes	CB 1856-1861 (transcript by Rev. T. E. Davies) — Church C 1563-1904 — North Cheshire Family History Society M 1563-1754 — North & East Cheshire Marriage Index - may be viewable at subscription sites such as ancestry or findmypast M 1563-1769 — published in: Cheshire Parish Registers: Marriages, vol. 5 (Phillimore, 1914) ; Boyd's Marriage Index - may be viewable on subscription sites such as ancestry and findmypast M 1563-1750 (incomplete) — Bertram Merrell Marriage Index of Cheshire (1750-1836) M 1889-2008 — Cheshire BMD (CE:1062) B 1563-1837 — National Burial Index B 1838-2001 — North Cheshire Family History Society
Monumental Inscriptions	Transcript by Marton Primary School (edited by P. Critchlow), 1984 — Cheshire Archives, Congleton Library, Macclesfield Library
Notes	M 1744-1769 — not recorded M 1769-1889 — none

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