Upton by Chester Holy Ascension Cheshire Family History Guide

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Upton by Chester Holy Ascension an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Cheshire, created in 1743 from Upton by Chester chapelry in Chester St Mary on the Hill Ancient Parish and included the townships of Moston, Mollington Banastre also known as Little Mollington and the greater part of the township of Upton. Upton by Chester was refounded in 1882 from Chester St Mary on the Hill Ancient Parish and Chester St Oswald Ancient Parish including the remainder of the township of Upton and part of the township of Blacon with Crabwall.

Upton by Chester was originally a Rectory called Overchurch that existed before the Dissolution that later became a chapelry or township in the parish of Chester St Mary on the Hill and later in 1743 was created a separate Ecclesiastical Parish called Upton.

This parish should not be confused with Upton by Birkenhead St Mary also known as Overchurch and often called Overchurch Parish, situated in the Hundred of Wirral in the County of Cheshire

Alternative names: Upton near Chester, Upton by Chester

Parish Parish location:

  • British National Grid Ref: SJ 40805 69107
  • BNG Eastings, Northings: 340805, 369107
  • Latitude, Longitude: 53.215705, -2.887921

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1853
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: None

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Upton by Chester Holy Ascension Parish Registers

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Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records

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Upton by Chester Holy Ascension, Cheshire Church of England Baptisms, 1854-1943

Marriage and Banns Records

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Upton by Chester Holy Ascension, Cheshire Church of England Marriages and Banns 1875-1940

Death and Burial Records

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Upton by Chester Holy Ascension, Cheshire Church of England Burials 1853-1976

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

UPTON, a township-chapelry in St. Mary-on-the-Hill parish, Cheshire; 2 miles N of Chester r. station. Post town, Chester. Acres, 1,106. Real property, £3,312. Pop. in 1851, 555; in 1861, 758, of whom 375 were in the county lunatic asylum. Houses, 74. The property is divided chiefly among three. The county lunatic asylum was built at a cost of £14,000, and has capacity for 500 patients. The living is annexed to St. Mary-on-the-Hill. The church is recent, and has a tower and spire. There is a national school.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Historical Maps

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Alan Godfrey Old Ordnance Survey Maps

Chester and Central Cheshire 1905 One Inch Sheet 109

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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: undefined
  • Rural Deanery: Wirral
  • Poor Law Union: Macclesfield
  • Hundred: Broxton
  • 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)
  • Cheshire Archives and Local Studies Catalogue
  • Ancestry.co.uk

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