Is Chesterfield Chester?

[shelleyv]

This may be a silly question, but is Chesterfield also Chester or Cheshire?
My Great Grandfather was born in Chester Cheshire. When in researching and looking at births would he be listed under a different subdistrict other than Chester?

Best Regards,
Shelley

[Geoffers]

This may be a silly question, but is Chesterfield also Chester or Cheshire?
Shelley.
No. Chesterfield is a town in Derbyshire. Travel due west and you come to the city of Chester, which is the county town of Cheshire.

An online map, such as:
www.streetmap.co.uk (http://www.streetmap.co.uk)
should help you to locate places in the UK.

Geoffers
Charlbury, Oxfordshire

[shelleyv]

Hi,
My Great Grandfather was born in Chester Cheshire. When searching birth records would Chester be listed as the district or subdistrict or under something else?

Shelley

P.S. thank you for replying to my thread.

[Geoffers]

My Great Grandfather was born in Chester Cheshire. When searching birth records would Chester be listed as the district or subdistrict or under something else?
I believe that Chester was a district - you can check to make sure on the GENUKI website
http://www.fhsc.org.uk/genuki/REG/

Geoffers
Charlbury, Oxfordshire

[margarett]

Just to add an historiacl note, the name comes from the Latin for camp, castra, so Chesterfield was a Roman camp in a field (presumably an English field!). The same element of the word is in Chester, Winchester, Chichester, Cirencester. Bicester, Rochester.....et cetara

I knew O-level Latin would be useful some day!!

Margaret