Congleton St Peter, Cheshire Family History Guide

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Congleton St Peter is an Ecclesiastical Parish and a market town in the county of Cheshire, created in 1720 from a chapelry in Astbury Ancient Parish.

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1719
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1745

Nonconformists include: Countess of Huntingdon Methodist, General Baptist, Independent/Congregational, Methodist New Connexion, Presbyterian Unitarian, Primitive Methodist, Roman Catholic, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Congleton St Peter 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.

Congleton St Peter, Cheshire Church of England Baptisms Marriages and Burials, 1719-1812

Congleton St Peter, Cheshire Church of England Bishop’s Transcripts – Baptisms, Marriages and Burials – 1745-1796

Congleton St. Peter, Cheshire Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1953

Marriage and Banns Records

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

Congleton St Peter, Cheshire Church of England Marriages and Banns 1839-1931

Death and Burial Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers of deaths and burial records.

Congleton St Peter, Cheshire Church of England Burials 1813-1897

Parish History

See Congleton, 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.

Administration

  • County: Cheshire
  • Civil Registration District: Congleton
  • 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: Middlewich
  • Poor Law Union: Congleton
  • Hundred: Northwich
  • Province: York

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