Chester Little St John, Cheshire Genealogy

Parish History
Little St John is an extra-parochial in the city of Chester. For more information on the city, see Chester.

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

Find Neighboring Parishes
Use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map
 * Type the name of the parish in the search bar
 * Click on the location pin on the map
 * Choose Options from the pop up box
 * Click "List Contiguous Parishes" to find the neighboring parishes

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

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

Church Records
Chester Little St John is an extra parochial area and the closest ecclesiastical parish is Chester Cathedral.
 * Extra-parochial areas were not attached to parish churches.
 * The residents went to a church of their choosing outside of the parish boundaries.

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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Chester Little St John on GENUKI