Wrenbury, Cheshire Family History Guide

Wrenbury is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Cheshire, created in 1730 from chapelry in Acton Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Dodcott cum Wilkesley, Woodcote, Sound, Newhall, Woodcott, Chorley, Broomhall, and Bromhall.

Alternative names: Wrenbury cum Frith, Wrenbury with Frith

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1593
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1593

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist, Wesleyan Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist Association.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WRENBURY, a village, a township, a parish, and a sub-district, in Nantwich district, Cheshire. The village stands on the river Weaver, the Ellesmere canal, and the Crewe and Shrewsbury railway, 5 miles SW of Nantwich; and has a post-office under Nantwich, a r. station, an inn, and fairs on 25 March and 25 Sept.

The township is called W.-with-Frith, and comprises 2,078 acres. Real property, £3,631. Pop., 531. Houses, 103. The manor belongs to the Marquis of Cholmondeley. W. Hall is the seat of Major Starkey.

The parish includes 5 other townships and a part; and comprises 15,698 acres. Pop., 2,505. Houses, 484. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester. Value, £150. Patron, the Vicar of Aeton. The church is plain.

There are four Methodist chapels, an endowed school with £12 a year, and charities £79.

The sub-district contains also Baddiley parish and parts of Audlem and Malpas; and comprises 30,139 acres. Pop., 6,033. Houses, 1,229.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Records

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England, Cheshire, Wrenbury-cum-Frith

England, Cheshire, Wrenbury – Cemeteries ( 2 )
Monumental inscriptions of Wrenbury cum Frith Cemetery

Parish of St. Margaret, Wrenbury, burials 10 Jan 1813 to Dec 1918
Author: Davies, Barbara Alice; Wood, Denis; North Cheshire Family History Society; Church of England. Parish Church of Wrenbury (Cheshire)

England, Cheshire, Wrenbury – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Wrenbury-with-Frith, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Cheshire, Wrenbury – Church records ( 7 )
Banns, churchwarden accounts, overseer papers, 1702-1852
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Wrenbury (Cheshire); Cheshire Record Office

Bishop’s transcripts for Burley Dam, 1869-1922
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Burley Dam (Cheshire)

Bishop’s transcripts for Wrenbury, 1593-1881
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Wrenbury (Cheshire); Cheshire Record Office

Index of marriages at St. Margaret, Wrenbury Cheshire 1751-1837
Author: Craig, Janice B.; Church of England. Parish Church of Wrenbury (Cheshire)

Parish of St. Margaret, Wrenbury, burials 10 Jan 1813 to Dec 1918
Author: Davies, Barbara Alice; Wood, Denis; North Cheshire Family History Society; Church of England. Parish Church of Wrenbury (Cheshire)

Parish registers for Burley Dam, 1770-1958
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Burley Dam (Cheshire)

Parish registers for Wrenbury, Cheshire, 1593-1954
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Wrenbury (Cheshire); Cheshire Record Office

England, Cheshire, Wrenbury – Civil registration ( 1 )
Registers of births at the Wrenbury sub-district in the Nantwich Poor Law Union, 1872-1909
Author: Great Britain. Poor Law Union (Nantwich, Cheshire); Cheshire Record Office

England, Cheshire, Wrenbury – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Banns, churchwarden accounts, overseer papers, 1702-1852
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Wrenbury (Cheshire); Cheshire Record Office

England, Cheshire, Wrenbury – Taxation ( 2 )
Land tax assessments for Nantwich hundred, 1781-1786, 1815-1819
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Cheshire); Cheshire Record Office

Land tax assessments for Wrenbury-cum-Frith [Wrenbury], 1781-1832
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Cheshire); Cheshire Record Office

Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

Administration

  • County: Cheshire
  • Civil Registration District: Nantwich
  • Probate Court: Pre-1541 – Court of the Bishop of Lichfield (Episcopal Consistory), Post-1540 – Court of the Bishop of Chester (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Pre-1541 – Lichfield and Coventry, Post-1540 – Chester
  • Rural Deanery: Nantwich
  • Poor Law Union: Nantwich
  • Hundred: Nantwich
  • Province: York