Nether Peover, Cheshire Genealogy

Guide to Nether Peover, Cheshire ancestry, 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 parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

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

Records are also available at the Cheshire Archives and Local Studies.

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

Websites
Nether Peover on GENUKI