Chester St Peter, Cheshire Family History Guide

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Chester St Peter is an Ancient Parish in the county of Cheshire. Chester St Peter parish was abolished in 1973 with the creation of Chester Ecclesiastical Parish.

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1588
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1600

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Chester St Peter Parish Registers

Search online registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials including digitised images of original records and registers and indexed transcriptions.

Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers of baptism, marriage, and burial records.

Chester St Peter, Cheshire Church of England Baptisms Marriages and Burials, 1588-1812

Chester St Peter, Cheshire Church of England Bishop’s Transcripts – Baptisms, Marriages and Burials – 1600-1879

Chester St. Peter, Cheshire Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1956

Chester St Peter, Cheshire Church of England Bishop’s Transcripts – Baptisms – 1600-1879

Marriage and Banns Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers of marriages and banns records.

Chester St Peter, Cheshire Church of England Marriages and Banns 1754-1958

Chester St Peter, Cheshire Church of England Bishop’s Transcripts – Marriages and Banns – 1600-1879

Death and Burial Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers of deaths and burial records.

Chester St Peter, Cheshire Church of England Burials 1813-1846

Chester St Peter, Cheshire Church of England Bishop’s Transcripts – Burials, 1600-1879

Parish History

See Chester, Cheshire Family History Guide

Historical Maps

Alan Godfrey Old Ordnance Survey Maps

Chester and Central Cheshire 1905 One Inch Sheet 109

The full range of Cheshire maps produced by Alan Godfrey are available in the Cheshire Maps section of the Books & Maps area. There you can search by principal villages and parishes, by key features for town and city plans, and sort the maps by type and scale. Coverage is taken from the places listed in Alan Godfrey’s own map descriptions, although smaller parishes may not be explicitly named. View all the Cheshire & District Alan Godfrey Maps.

Further Reading

Administration

  • County: Cheshire
  • Civil Registration District: Great Boughton
  • 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: Chester
  • Poor Law Union: Chester Incorporation
  • Hundred: Chester Borough
  • Province: York

Sources

The following sources have been used to compile this article.

  • F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991)
  • FamilySearch Research Wiki – Cheshire, England Genealogy
  • Cheshire Archives and Local Studies Catalogue
  • Ancestry.co.uk

County Maps

The Godfrey Edition reprints of Old Ordnance Survey Maps are invaluable for historians and genealogists. Many are taken from the highly detailed 1:2500 plans, reprinted at about 14 inches to the mile, showing individual houses, railways, factories, churches, mills, canals. Each map includes historical notes on the area. Alongside these large‑scale sheets, Alan Godfrey also publishes the smaller‑scale Inch‑to‑the‑Mile series, and a range of maps based on the OS five‑foot plans.