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Discover your English relatives from Cheshire, the county town of Chester, in the North Cheshire Memorial Inscriptions. The inscriptions will give important information to add to your growing family tree like where your ancestor is buried and when he/she died.

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Memorial inscriptions are transcripts created by individuals of tombstones or gravestones. The information in each transcript can differ due to the age and legibility of the monument. The transcripts usually includes a combination of the following information.


  • Name
  • First names
  • Death year
  • Death month
  • Birth year
  • Age
  • Place
  • County
  • Country


  • Description*


  • Qualification
  • Fiche (Microfiche)
  • Grave number
  • OS grid reference
  • Category
  • Collections from
  • Record set


Description refers to the location of the memorial. Many of the description locations includes ‘CofE,’ which means Church of England.

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