Nether Peover, Cheshire Genealogy

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Guide to Nether Peover, Cheshire family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
PEOVER, NETHER, is a chapelry, in the parish of Great Budworth,the union and hundred of Northwich, and South division of the county of Chester, it is 3 miles (S. by W.) from Knutsford. The chapel is dedicated to St. Oswald. Nether Peover is a chapelry of Great Budworth Ancient Parish in Cheshire.

Church records
Nether Peover St Oswald chapelry registers of christenings, marriages and burials have been indexed by the following groups:

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

St Oswald's Registers of Baptisms 1570–1968, Marriages 1570–1997 and Burials 1570–1895 have been deposited at the Cheshire Record Office.

Lower Peover was a chapelry in Great Budworth parish. Cheshire Record Office call numbers: P4/1/1-4, P4/3723/1/1-2, P4/2/1-3, P4/3/1-5, P4/4/1-2, P4/5/1-2.

Bishop's transcripts for Lower Peover, 1600-1899 Cheshire Record Office call number: EDB 131

Non-Conformist Churches

 * Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
 * Unitarian.

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 and death indexes available:


 * FreeBMD
 * Cheshire BMD

Registration Districts

 * Northwich (1837-19740

Poor Law Unions

 * Northwich

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