Chelford St John the Evangelist Cheshire Family History Guide
Chelford St John the Evangelist an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Cheshire, created in 1720 from a chapelry in Prestbury Ancient Parish. Chelford was ecclesiastically refounded in 1880 as Chelford with Old Withington.
Alternative names: Chelford with Old Withington
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1674
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1839
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Adjacent Parishes
Chelford Parish Registers
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Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records
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Chelford, St. John the Evangelist, Cheshire Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1934
Chelford Marriages 1674 to 1752
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Death and Burial Records
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Chelford St John the Evangelist, Cheshire Church of England Burials 1813-1894
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
CHELFORD, a township-chapelry in Prestbury parish, Cheshire; on the river Peover, and on the Manchester and Crewe railway, 5 miles ESE of Knutsford. It has a station on the railway, and a post office under Congleton. Acres, 290. Real property, £2,318. Pop., 256. Houses, 40. The property is divided among a few. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Chester. Value, £100. Patron, J. Dixon, Esq. The church is in the early English style, and has a tower and spire.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
CHELFORD, a chapelry, in the parish of Prestbury, union and hundred of Macclesfield, N. division of the county of Chester, 5 miles (S. E. by E.) from Knutsford; containing, with the township of Old Withington, 392 inhabitants, of whom 201 are in Chelford township.
This township comprises 1161a. 34p., of which about a fourth is arable land, of a level surface, and a sandy soil. It lies on the Knutsford and Macclesfield road, and five roads meet in the village. The Birtles and Henbury brooks unite immediately below the chapel, forming in Astle Park a fine sheet of water, which empties itself into a brook called Peover-leve. Here is a station on the Manchester and Birmingham railway. Astle Park is the seat of J. Dixon, Esq.
The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £128; patron and impropriator, Mr. Dixon: there is a glebe-house, with 11½ acres of glebe; and in Newton, near Middlewich, are also 30 acres. The chapel, rebuilt in 1776, is a plain edifice. In 1754, John Parker, Esq., erected a school, and endowed it with £50, to which Thomas Moss and Samuel Brook added each £100.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Historical Maps
Alan Godfrey Old Ordnance Survey Maps
The full range of Cheshire maps produced by Alan Godfrey are available in the Cheshire Maps section of the Books & Maps area. There you can search by principal villages and parishes, by key features for town and city plans, and sort the maps by type and scale. Coverage is taken from the places listed in Alan Godfrey’s own map descriptions, although smaller parishes may not be explicitly named. View all the Cheshire & District Alan Godfrey Maps.
Administration
- County: Cheshire
- Civil Registration District: Macclesfield
- 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: Macclesfield
- Poor Law Union: Macclesfield
- Hundred: Macclesfield
- 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
