Liverpool St Mark, Lancashire Genealogy

Guide to Liverpool St Mark, Lancashire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: chapelry register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Chapelry History
LIVERPOOL (St Mark), Upper Duke Street, was a chapel of ease created by 1803 from, and lying within the boundaries of Liverpool St Peter and St Nicholas. The church was closed in 1913 and demolished thereafter; the parishioners transferred to St Mark Edge Lane.

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.

Online index of Lancashire Births, Marriages and Deaths Lancashire BMD

Church Records
Online Records
 * 1538 - 1910 at FamilySearch — index

Online transcriptions exist for Liverpool St Mark's Chapel registers as well as for Liverpool's ancient parish of St Nicholas' baptism, marriage and burial registers. Displayed below are those links to online data for both this chapelry and for the ancient parish of St Nicholas located in the following websites; note the ranges of years:

To view a full list for all of Liverpool Parish’s (nearly 60) chapelries, ecclesiastical churches, and district chapels, and to view online baptism, marriage and burial transcription indexes, visit the LIVERPOOL ST PETER &amp; ST NICHOLAS PARISH page.

Original Records

Liverpool St Mark's Chapelry (parish) registers are held at the Liverpool Record Office.

Bishop's transcripts for St. Mark's Church, Liverpool are on microfilm, and the original records are held at the Lancashire Record Office, Preston.

These registers have also been microfilmed by FamilySearch and they are available through its 4600 FamilySearch Centers worldwide.

Baptisms and burials, 1815-1843; marriages, 1815-1840. FHL BRITISH Film 1468864

Poor Law Unions
Liverpool, Lancashire Poor Law Union

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Lancashire 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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain