Claverton, Cheshire Genealogy

England Cheshire  Cheshire Parishes Claverton

Guide to Claverton, Cheshire family history and genealogy: parish registers (baptism, christening, marriage, and burial records), civil registration (birth, marriage, and death records), census records, history, wills, cemetery, online transcriptions and indexes, an interactive map and websites.

Parish History
Claverton is a civil parish in the Borough of Cheshire West and Chester and ceremonial county of Cheshire in England.

Claverton was an extra-parochial place in Broxton Hundred, which became a civil parish in 1858. Including the hamlet of Iron Bridge.

CLAVERTON, an uninhabited extra-parochial tract in Great Boughton district, Cheshire; within Chester city.

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.


 * Great Boughton (1837–69)
 * Chester (1870–1937)
 * West Cheshire (1937–74)
 * Chester and Ellesmere Port (1974–98)
 * Cheshire West (post 1998) registration events may searched online at Cheshire BMD

Church records
Claverton extra-parochial registers of christenings, marriages and burials have been indexed by the following groups:

This is an extra parochial place.

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.

Poor Law Unions
Great Boughton (1837–53) see Tarvin (previously Great Boughton) Poor Law Union, Cheshire Hawarden Poor Law Union (1853–71)

Chester Poor Law Union from 1871-1930

Probate records
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.

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


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain