Lower Peover St Oswald Cheshire Family History Guide
Lower Peover St Oswald is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Cheshire, created in 1814 from Great Budworth Ancient Parish.
Other places in the parish include: Allostock, Inferior Peover, Peover Inferior, and Plumbley.
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1570
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1600
Nonconformists include: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Unitarian.
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Adjacent Parishes
Lower Peover 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.
Lower Peover, St. Oswald, Cheshire Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1570-1812
Lower Peover St Oswald, Cheshire Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1968
Marriage and Banns Records
These records include images of Church of England parish registers of marriages and banns records.
Lower Peover St Oswald, Cheshire Church of England Marriages and Banns 1778-1942
Death and Burial Records
These records include images of Church of England parish registers of deaths and burial records.
Lower Peover St Oswald, Cheshire Church of England Burials 1813-1992
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
PEOVER (Lower), a chapelry in Great Budworth parish, Cheshire; on the river Peover, 2¾ miles S by W of Knutsford r. station. It comprises the townships of Nether Peover, Inferior Peover, Allostock, and Plumbley; and its post town is Nether Peover, under Knutsford. Acres, 5,738. Real property, £10,085. Pop., 1,268. Houses, 240.
The manors of Peover Inferior and Plumbley belong to Lord De Tabley; that of Nether Peover, to Lord De Tabley and Sir W. Shakerley, Bart.; and that of Allostock, to Sir W. Shakerley, Bart. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Chester. Value, £96. Patron, Lord De Tabley. The church is of the 13th century; has a stone tower of 1562; and was restored, at a cost of £1,300, in 1852. There is a parochial school.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Historical Maps
Alan Godfrey Old Ordnance Survey Maps
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Administration
- County: Cheshire
- Civil Registration District: Altrincham
- 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: Altrincham
- Hundred: Bucklow
- Province: York
