Claverton, Cheshire Genealogy

Guide to Claverton, Cheshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: extra-parochial, see Chester Cheshire for records.

Parish History
Claverton is a civil parish in the Borough of Cheshire West and Chester and ceremonial county of Cheshire in England.

Claverton was an extra-parochial place in Broxton Hundred, which became a civil parish in 1858. Including the hamlet of Iron Bridge.

CLAVERTON, an uninhabited extra-parochial tract in Great Boughton district, Cheshire; within Chester city.

Church records
Claverton parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the Cornwall Record Office.

Non-Conformist Churches
None

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from 1 July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. Here are two excellent Internet sites with birth, marriage a nd death indexes available:


 * FreeBMD
 * Cheshire BMD

Registration Districts

 * Great Boughton (1837–69)
 * Chester (1870–1937)
 * West Cheshire (1937–74)
 * Chester and Ellesmere Port (1974–98)
 * Cheshire West (post 1998) registration events may searched online at Cheshire BMD

Poor Law Unions
Great Boughton (1837–53) see Tarvin (previously Great Boughton) Poor Law Union, Cheshire Hawarden Poor Law Union (1853–71)

Chester Poor Law Union from 1871-1930

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Cheshire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

see also England Cheshire Probate Records - FamilySearch Historical Records

Maps and Gazetteers
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Claverton on GENUKI