Chester St Paul, Cheshire Family History Guide

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Chester St Paul is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Cheshire, created in 1846 from Chester St John the Baptist Ancient Parish and Chester St Oswald Ancient Parish.

Alternative names: Boughton in the City

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1838
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1838

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Chester St Paul Parish Registers

Search online registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials including digitised images of original records and registers and indexed transcriptions.

Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers of baptism, marriage, and burial records.

Chester St Paul (Boughton), Cheshire Church of England Baptisms, 1838-1933

Chester (Boughton) St Paul, Cheshire Church of England Bishop’s Transcripts – Baptisms – 1838-1871

Marriage and Banns Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers of marriages and banns records.

Chester St Paul (Boughton), Cheshire Church of England Marriages and Banns 1890-1947

Parish History

See Chester, Cheshire Family History Guide

Historical Maps

Alan Godfrey Old Ordnance Survey Maps

Chester and Central Cheshire 1905 One Inch Sheet 109

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.

Further Reading

Administration

  • County: Cheshire
  • Civil Registration District: Great Boughton
  • 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: Chester
  • Poor Law Union: Chester Incorporation
  • Hundred: Chester Borough
  • 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

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