Elworth, Cheshire Genealogy

England Cheshire  Cheshire Parishes  Elworth St Peter

Guide to Elworth, 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
Elworth St Peter is an ecclesiatical parish in Cheshire from Sandbach St Mary, Cheshire Ancient Parish and Warmingham, Cheshire Ancient Parish and includes Elton (near Sandbach), Moston (near Sandbach), Sandbach and Tetton.

ELWORTH, is a chapelry in Sandbach and Warmingham parishes, Cheshire; it is on the Northwestern railway, and on the Trent and Mersey canal, 1½ mile NW of Sandbach. It was constituted in 1847; and its post town is Sandbach.

Church records
Elworth St Peter registers of christenings, marriages and burials have been indexed by the following groups:

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.

Parish registers of Elworth, 1846-1924 Elworth was a chapelry in Sandbach and Warmingham parishes. Cheshire Record Office reference: P207/1-3.

An index for Cheshire parish registers is available online in Record Search

Cheshire Record Office Reference P 207 Elworth Parish records Date 1846-1967 Registers: Christenings 1846-1915, Marriages 1847-1917, Burials 1846-1925. other records 1846-1967 See also Sandbach and Warmingham URL http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=017-p207&amp;cid=0

Civil Registration
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:


 * FreeBMD
 * Cheshire BMD

Registration Districts

 * Congleton (1837–1937)
 * Crewe (1937–74)
 * Congleton and Crewe (1974–88)
 * South Cheshire (1988–98)
 * Cheshire East (post 1998)

Poor Law Unions

 * Congleton   http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?Stockport/Stockport.shtml

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.

see also England Cheshire Probate Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)

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