Chester Little St John, Cheshire Genealogy

England Cheshire Cheshire Parishes  Chester Little St John

Parish History
In 1870 - CHESTER, a city and two sub-districts in Great Boughton district, Cheshire; and a diocese in Cheshire and part of Lancashire. The city stands on the river Dee and on the Via Devana, 5 miles SE of the head of the Dee's estuary, and 16, through Birkenhead, SSE of Liverpool. One of the livings withing the parish is Little St John.

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.

Church records
Chester Little St. John parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials have been indexed by the following groups:

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

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

Poor Law Unions
Chester Poor Law Union

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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain