Over St John Evangelist, Cheshire Genealogy

Guide to Over St John Evangelist, Cheshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Church Records
Over St John Evangelist Parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials have online indexes by the following groups:

Over St John was created a parish in 1863 from St Chad and Whitegate.

Here is a list of parish registers on microfilm at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. Parish registers for St. John's Church, Over, 1863-1948 Cheshire Record Office call no.: P222/1/1-2, P222/2/1-4, P222/3/1-5.

Non-Conformist Churches
Not Known
 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images

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 (1837-1936)

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
See a gazetteer description of Adlington at Vision of Britain.