Chester St Bridget, Cheshire Genealogy

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Chester St Bridget, Cheshire
Type Ecclesiastical Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
Hundred Wirrall
County Cheshire
Poor Law Union Chester Incorporation
Registration District Great Boughton
Records begin
Parish registers: 1649; Separate registers exist for Chester St Martin beginning 1671
Bishop's Transcripts: 1600; Separate records exist for Chester St Martin beginning 1700
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery Chester
Diocese Pre-1541 - Lichfield and Coventry; Post-1540 - Chester
Province Canterbury
Legal Jurisdictions
Probate Court Pre-1541 - Court of the Bishop of Lichfield (Episcopal Consistory) Post-1540 - Court of the Bishop of Cheshire (Episcopal Consistory)
Location of Archive
Cheshire Record Office
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Parish History[edit | edit source]

St Bridget is a parish in the city of Chester.[1] For more information on the city, see Chester.

Chester, St. Bridget (C of E). An ancient parish serving part of the city centre, closed in 1973.

Resources[edit | edit source]

Census records[edit | edit source]

Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.


Church records[edit | edit source]

Chester St. Bridget parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials have been indexed by the following groups:

FS PR's =FamilySearch Parish Registers
FS BT's =FamilySearch Bishops Transcripts
Chester St. Bridget Parish Online Records

Baptisms
Marriages
Burials

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FS PR's 1644-1909
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 1655-1934
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  1653-1888
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FS BT'S    NONE
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To find the names of the neighbouring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Here is a list of parish registers on microfilm at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City.

Parish registers for St. Bridget's Church, Chester, 1649-1954 Berkshire Record Office no.: P15/1/1-3, P15/2/1-2, P15/3/1-9, P15/5/1-2, P15/4/1-3.

Parish Registers: St. Bridget's Church Film
Baptisms, marriages, burials, 1649-1710. Baptisms, burials, 1711-1779; marriages, 1711-1754. Baptisms, burials, 1780-1812. Baptisms, 1813-1933. Marriages, 1754-1858.
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Marriages, 1858-1926. Banns, 1868-1903. Burials, 1813-1896.
 2045837 Items 1 - 8
Marriages, 1926-1954.
 2262789 Items 1 - 3

Registers of Baptisms 1649–1972, Marriages 1649–1972 and Burials 1649–1896 have been deposited at the Cheshire Record Office.

Bishop's transcripts for St. Bridget's Church, Chester, St. Martin's Church, Chester. Some text in Latin. Includes St. Martin's Church after 1842. Cheshire Record Office refernce: EDB 53

Bishop's transcripts: St. Bridget's Church, St. Martin's Church Film
Baptisms, marriages, burials, 1600-1601, 1603, 1604, 1611-1613, 1616, 1622, 1624-1625, 1629-1632, 1637, 1639-1642, 1647, 1663, 1666, 1668-1685, 1691-1728, 1730-1735, 1737-1803, 1805-1836. Baptisms, burials, 1837-1842. Baptisms, January-May 1843 FHL BRITISH Film 1655479 Item 2
Baptisms, 1843-1856, 1858-1894, 1896. Burials, 1843-1856, 1858-1881, 1883, 1887-1888, 1891, 1896. FHL BRITISH Film 1655480 Item 1
Non-Conformist Churches[edit | edit source]

Not Known

Civil Registration[edit | edit source]

Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from 1 July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. Here are two excellent Internet sites with birth, marriage a nd death indexes available:

Civil Registration Districts[edit | edit source]
  • Great Boughton

Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]

Chester Poor Law Union

Probate records[edit | edit source]

Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Cheshire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

see also England Cheshire Probate Records - FamilySearch Historical Records

Maps and Gazetteers[edit | edit source]

Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.

Websites[edit | edit source]

Chester St Bridget on GENUKI

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 576-586. Date accessed: 18 March 2019.
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