Chester Christ Church, Cheshire Genealogy

[[Image:Christ_Church_Chester.jpg|thumb|right|Chester Christ Church]]History
Chester Christ Church, Somerset Street, Chester is an ecclesiastical parish created in 1843 a former chapel of Chester St Oswald

The present church was built to replace an earlier church dated 1838 on the site which has been designed by Thomas Jones. It was built in separate stages between 1876 and 1900 to designs by John Douglas. A southwest steeple was planned but was never built.

Church Records
Parish registers for Christ Church, Chester, 1838-1949 Cheshire Record Office reference: P17/1/1-7, P17/2/1-5, P17/3.

An index for Cheshire parish registers is available online in Record Search

Bishop's transcripts for Christ Church, Chester, 1855-1876

Cheshire Record Office reference: EDB 51

An index for Cheshire, Church of England, Bishop’s Transcripts (Diocese of Chester) is available online in Record Search

Poor Law Unions

 * Chester   http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?Wirral/Wirral.shtml

Registration Districts

 * Great Boughton (1837–69)
 * Chester (1870–1998)
 * Cheshire West (post 1998)

registration events may be searched online at Cheshire BMD