Alvanley genealogy heraldry and family history resources

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Description

Alvanley, a village, a township, and a parish in Cheshire, near Delamere Forest, 1 1/2 mile S of Helsby station on the L. & N.W. and Birkenhead railways, and 3 miles SSW of Frodsham, with a post office under Warrington; money order and telegraph office, Helsby. Acreage, 1513; population, 328. The manor belonged for many generations to the Arderne or Arden family, and gave them the title of Baron. The title became extinct in 1857. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; value, £141 with gift from the Patron, the Earl of Haddington, of £105. The church was built in 1860 near the site of a chapel erected in the reign of Henry VI.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5


Census

Below are links to all of the Alvanley census returns available online, with the dates the census' were taken
1841
6th June 1841
30th March 1851
7th April 1861
2nd April 1871
3rd April 1881
5th April 1891
31st March 1901