Charlie Hulme's History Website


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Here I share the results of my family history researches, most of which so far have been into my mother's side and in particular the Hill and Boothby families, who hailed from the Kettleshulme area on the Cheshire - Derbyshire border. More to come, hopefully.   - Charlie Hulme, Stockport UK, May 2024.

My family story


 Tracing the Barratts of Stockport (2021)

 My Father and his family: Eccles to Whaley Bridge (2017)

Me and Mrs Middleton: a sidelight on my history (2016)

The Boothbys and the Swan Inn, Kettleshulme (2010 - Includes a Kettleshulme Directory for 1874)

Cycling through my ancestry: Kettleshulme, Saltersford and the Jenkin Chapel (2008)

James Hill (1885-1963) and his Daughters:

George Hill 1860-1917 (2006)

Transcribed documents and records


SALTERSFORD and KETTLESHULME From Kelly’s Directory of Cheshire, 1906

KETTLESHULME and SALTERSFORD, 1850 From: Bagshaw, Samuel. History, gazetteer, and directory of the county palatine of Chester.

A collection of Stockport area directories can be downloaded from my Davenport Station website

Links to other sites:


DISLEY.NET: Marvellous resource of Parish registers from Disley, Lyme Handley, Taxal & Whaley

The SWAN INN, Kettleshulme (Facebook)

Cheshire Tithe Maps

Stockport Image Archive: on-line pictures of Stockport history

Whaley Bridge Photos

Furness Vale Local History Society


Updated May 2024. Comments welcome at info@nwrail.org.uk