Aston by Sutton St Peter Cheshire Family History Guide
Aston by Sutton St Peter, originally a chapelry of Runcorn Ancient Parish in Cheshire, was created a separate Ecclesiastical Parish in 1861 from Runcorn Ancient Parish to serve Sutton, Aston by Sutton, Aston Grange and part of the township of Dutton. In 2013 the parish was united with Little Leigh and Lower Whitley.
Alternative names: Aston, Aston Sutton, Aston by Sutton with Middleton Grange
Parish registers available:
- Baptisms 1635-1997
- Marriages 1635-1997
- Burials 1635-1997
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Aston by Sutton, Parish Registers
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Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records
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Aston by Sutton St Peter, Cheshire Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1635-1812
Aston By Sutton St. Peter, Cheshire Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1924
Aston by Sutton St Peter, Cheshire Church of England Bishop’s Transcripts – Baptisms – 1762-1884
Marriage and Banns Records
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Aston by Sutton St Peter, Cheshire Church of England Marriages and Banns 1757-1960
Death and Burial Records
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Aston by Sutton St Peter, Cheshire Church of England Burials 1813-1997
Aston by Sutton St Peter, Cheshire Church of England Bishop’s Transcripts – Burials, 1762-1884
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
ASTON-BY-SUTTON, or Aston-Sutton, a township chapelry in Runcorn parish, Cheshire; on the Northwestern railway and the Weaver river, near Preston-Brook r. station, and 3 miles E by N of Frodsham. It includes a place called Middleton-Grange, sometimes deemed extra-parochial; and its Post Town is Preston-Brook. Acres, 1,012. Real property, £3,021. Pop., 207. Houses, 38. Aston Hall here is the seat of Sir Arthur Aston, Bart. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester. Value, £88. Patron, Sir A. Aston, Bart. The original church was at Middleton; and the present one contains an old lectern.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
ASTON-BY-SUTTON, a parochial chapelry, in the parish and union of Runcorn, hundred of Bucklow, N. division of the county of Chester, 1 mile (S. by W.) from Preston-Brook; containing 508 inhabitants, of whom 206 are in the township of Aston.
The manor belonged as early as the reign of Wm. I. to the family of Aston, of whom Thomas Aston was created a baronet by Charles I. in 1628; he was an officer in the king’s service, and was actively engaged in the civil war, as was also Sir Arthur Aston, who was a personal friend of Charles. The title became extinct in the commencement of the eighteenth century.
The chapelry comprises 2974a. 30p., whereof about 535 acres are arable, 1950 meadow and pasture, 410 woodland, and the remainder homesteads and gardens. Of the whole acreage, 1001 are in Aston township, which is chiefly of a clayey and sandy soil; the land is cultivated in a judicious manner, and is well wooded. The township lies on the river Weaver, which is navigable here and flows through the hamlet of Sutton into the Mersey. The Chester and Warrington road runs on the north of the township, and the Liverpool and Birmingham railway passes through it.
Aston Hall, a handsome mansion, built about the close of the 17th century, and surrounded by an extensive park, is the seat of Sir Arthur Ingram Aston, G.C.B.; it stands on elevated ground, and commands fine views of the estuary of the Weaver, and of the Lancashire shore on the north-west.
The living is a curacy, in the patronage of Sir Arthur; net income, £88: There was formerly a chapel at Middleton-Grange; and after it fell into decay, about the year 1450, another was erected on the present site, at Aston, which was made a parochial chapel by grant of Dr. John Bridgeman, Bishop of Chester, in 1635. It was rebuilt on an enlarged scale in 1737, is of red sandstone, and consists of a nave and chancel, with a belfry turret at the west end; there are several memorials of the Aston family.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Historical Maps
British National Grid Ref: SJ 55580 78460
BNG Eastings, Northings: 355580, 378460
Latitude, Longitude: 53.301214, -2.667995
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Administration
- County: Cheshire
- Civil Registration District: Runcorn
- Probate Court: Pre-1541 – Court of the Bishop of Lichfield (Episcopal Consistory), Post-1540 – Court of the Bishop of Chester (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Pre-1541 – Lichfield and Coventry, Post-1540 – Chester
- Rural Deanery: Frodsham
- Poor Law Union: Runcorn
- Hundred: Bucklow
- Province: York
Sources
The following sources have been used to compile this article.
- F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991)
- FamilySearch Research Wiki – Cheshire, England Genealogy
- Cheshire Archives and Local Studies Catalogue
- Ancestry.co.uk
