Chester Little St John, Cheshire Genealogy

England Cheshire  Chester Little St John

Parish History
Chester Little St John Upper Northgate Sreet was built as a chapel of ease to the Ancient parish of St John The Baptist Chester in 1717.

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

Church records
There are no marriages or burials here.

Cheshire Record Office Reference P 103 Chester Little St John Parish Description Registers: Christenings 1928-1948 URL http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=017-p103&amp;cid=0

also Cheshire Record Office Reference ZCR 36 Title CHESTER, LITTLE ST. JOHN'S CHURCH

Census records
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Index for the Census may be searched at FamilySearch Historical Records

http://www.1881pubs.com/ for details of public houses in the 1881 census

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.

Poor Law Unions
Chester Poor Law Union

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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