Copy certificates are cheaper from the local Registrar than from the GRO postal applications service. Full name of the person. Date of the wedding. Name of one or both of the parties who were married. Census Censuses of the population have been conducted every 10 years since 1801, but names of individuals are given only from 1841 onwards.
Copies are available locally on microfilm.
They describe each household, listing personal details of name, age, occupation, place of birth and relationship to each other. Census returns are closed for 100 years, so the 1891 census is the latest available. The Cheshire section is relatively less helpful, since, until recently, the Society had filmed very few records relating to the county. Full sets of the IGI covering the whole of England and Wales are available, on microfiche, in Ellesmere Port and Macclesfield Libraries. The Record Office has a set for Cheshire and neighbouring counties.