St Michael and All Angels, Middlewich, Church of England

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It was founded in 1613.

Hightown

Church History

An ancient parish church, originally serving the townships of Byley, Clive, Croxton, Kinderton cum Hulme, Middlewich, Minshull Vernon, Mooresbarrow with Parme, Newton by Middlewich, Occlestone, Ravenscroft, Sproston, Stublach, Sutton, Weaver, and Wimboldsley.

The district was affected by the following boundary changes:

• 1848 April 25 — reduced when the townships of Sproston and Stublach, and parts of the townships of Byley, Kinderton cum Hulme and Leese, were transferred to Byley cum Lees: St. John the Evangelist.
• 1850 — reduced when the township of Leighton was transferred to Leighton cum Minshull Vernon: St. Peter.

 

Church Records

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

Original Registers	C 1613-2008 ; M 1613-2013 ; B 1613-1909, 1971-1988 — Cheshire Archives (P 13) C from 2008 ; M from 2013 — Church
Microfilm Copies	C 1613-1937 ; M 1613-1952 ; B 1613-1909, 1971-1988 — Cheshire Archives C 1613-1905 ; M 1613-1919 ; B 1613-1884 — Family History Society of Cheshire C 1613-1905 ; M 1613-1919 ; B 1613-1909 — Manchester Archives & Local Studies C 1613-1934 ; M 1613-1945 ; B 1613-1909 — Sandbach Library ; Winsford Library
Bishop's Transcripts	1588, 1600, 1604, 1607-09, 1611, 1614-15, 1617-21, 1623, 1625-26, c1627, 1632, 1634-36, 1639, 1662-65, 1668-76, 1679-85, 1690-94, 1695(?),1696-1877 (microfilmed) — Cheshire Archives
Copies and Indexes	CB 1751-1795 ; M 1751-1812 (microfilmed transcript) — Society of Genealogists' Library M 1692-1837(incomplete) — Bertram Merrell Marriage Index of Cheshire (1750-1836) M 1754-1837 — North & East Cheshire Marriage Index - may be viewable at subscription sites such as ancestry or findmypast M 1837-1950 — Cheshire BMD (CC:1063)
Monumental Inscriptions	Transcript by Middlewich Urban District Council, 1930 — The National Archives (RG 37/106) Transcript by South Cheshire Family History Society, 1998
Notes	B 1909-1971 — none

It is located at SJ7035366227 (Lat/Lon 53.1923, -2.445185). You can see this on maps provided by:

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