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England Lancashire  Liverpool

Guide to Liverpool history, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.



Description
The picture above shows the world famous waterfront of Liverpool;, with the Royal Liver Building, the Cunard Building, and the Port of Liverpool Authority Building, as shown left to right. Departing the dock is one of the iconic Mersey Ferry boats.

Liverpool is a major port in North West England, and is on the right bank of the River Mersey. It has bee a settlement for at least 800 years.

Initially Liverpool was the port that served the shipping needs between Ireland and England. From that beginning, Liverpool rapidly developed into a world class port. It was never a major naval port, as most of the military marine activity was centered along the south coast of England, facing Europe.

However the rapid growth of cotton growing in the American deep south, plus the need for farm labor for the sugar plantations in the Caribbean, resulted in a rapid growth in the slave trade.

The heroic lifetime work of Mr. William Wilberforce, a northern MP, resulted in the passage of a bill through the British parliament abolishing slaving, and Liverpool turned to more acceptable shipping.

From the late 1700's it became the major western European port for emigrants from Northern Europe to travel to the New World. In fact this shipping industry became so important that there is now a statue memorializing this activity at the Albert Dock entrance.



List of Liverpool Parishes
To help search for family records, the following Comprehensive List of Liverpool St Peter's Parishes and Chapelries has been compiled here:


 * Liverpool, All Saints Great Nelson St - 1835
 * Liverpool, All Saints Grosvenor - 1798 (closed in 1845)
 * Liverpool, All Souls - 1853
 * Liverpool, Blessed Virgin Mary - 1829
 * Liverpool, Christ Church, Hunter St - 1799
 * Liverpool, Holy Trinity – 1792
 * Liverpool, Mariner's Church - 1827
 * Liverpool, St Alban's – 1846 (a.k.a. Bevington Church)
 * Liverpool, St Andrew's - 1815
 * Liverpool, St Anne's, Richmond - 1773
 * Liverpool, St Barnabas – 1841
 * Liverpool, St Bartholomew's – 1841
 * Liverpool, St Bride's - 1831
 * Liverpool, St Catherine's - 1831
 * Liverpool, St David's - 1827
 * Liverpool, St George's - 1734
 * Liverpool, St John's - 1767
 * Liverpool, St John the Baptist - 1832
 * Liverpool St John the Evangelist - 1836
 * Liverpool, St Luke's - 1831
 * Liverpool, St Mark's - 1815
 * Liverpool, St Martin-in-the Fields - 1829
 * Liverpool, St Mary-for-the-Blind Church - 1829
 * Liverpool, St Mary Magdalen - 1858
 * Liverpool, St Mathias' - 1834
 * Liverpool, St Matthew's - 1798
 * Liverpool, St Michael's - 1826
 * Liverpool, St Nicholas' - 1659
 * Liverpool, St Paul's - 1769
 * Liverpool, St Peter's - 1704
 * Liverpool, St Philip's - 1817
 * Liverpool, St Saviour's - 1841
 * Liverpool, St Silas' - 1841
 * Liverpool, St Simon's - 1827
 * Liverpool, St Stephen's - 1792
 * Liverpool, St Thomas' - 1750

Also part of the civil parish of Liverpool are the following district chapelries which formed the southern suburb of and also within the boundaries of Liverpool St Peter and St Nicholas:


 * Toxteth Park All Saints - 1885
 * Toxteth Park Christ Church - 1871
 * Toxteth Park Holy Trinity - 1859
 * Toxteth Park St Barnabas - 1841
 * Toxteth Park St Bede - 1882
 * Toxteth Park St Brides - 1831
 * Toxteth Park St Clement - 1841
 * Toxteth Park St Cleopas Mission Church - 1866
 * Toxteth Park St Gabriel - 1885
 * Toxteth Park St James - 1775
 * Toxteth Park St Clement - 1841
 * Toxteth Park St John the Baptist - 1832
 * Toxteth Park St Margaret - 1869
 * Toxteth Park St Matthew - 1848 (chapelry registers are only available at the Manchester Central Library)
 * Toxteth Park St Michael in the Hamlet - 1815 (extra parochial)
 * Toxteth Park St Nathaniel - 1869 (mostly in West Derby Parish)
 * Toxteth Park St Paul - 1848
 * Toxteth Park St Philemon - 1873
 * Toxteth Park St Saviour - 1841
 * Toxteth Park St Silas - 1865
 * Toxteth Park St Thomas-in-the-Fields - 1843 (chapelry registers are only available at the Liverpool Record Office)

Due to its close proximity, see also Walton-on-the-Hill Parish and its chapelries, i.e. Everton.

Liverpool also had inordinately large Irish population, many of which were Roman Catholic. By 1831, Lewis' Topographical Dictionary of England (published 1831) identified that there were at least five Roman Catholic parishes lying within its boundaries. However, on further study, here is a list all those known Roman Catholic churches within the boundaries of the city--including ten (10) of them; the Family History Library has a few of them (see hyper-links below); there were, prior to 1900, nearly 40 Catholic parishes within Liverpool proper:

Here are related links to Roman Catholics living in the City of Liverpool area:
 * St Alban - 1807
 * St Anne
 * St Ethelburga - 1843
 * St Nicholas - 1813 (some burials)
 * St Anthony - 1804 (see also St Anthony's website for some data online)
 * St Peter – 1788
 * St Mary, Woolton – 1707 (see their website, with soon-to-be-posted data online
 * St Swithin - 1758
 * St Patrick - 1827
 * St Joseph - 1798


 * Liverpool Roman Catholic Marriages (64,000) database online from 1800-1900, with most after 1850
 * Liverpool Roman Catholic Baptisms (nearly 115,000) online (eventually over 500,000 entries will be available)
 * Liverpool Roman Catholic Burials (1856-1865) - about 35,000 entries

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Guide to Liverpool ancestry, family history and genealogy parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.



''This page is about the City of Liverpool, for hundreds of years the premier west coast port of England. It is situated on the River Mersey, and on the west coast of the county of Lancashire, and was probably first settled about 1200 AD, as a fishing port.''

"The picture above shows the world famous waterfront of Liverpool;, with the Royal Liver Building, the Cunard Building, and the Port of Liverpool Authority Building, as shown left to right. Departing the dock is one of the iconic Mersey Ferry boats"

"Initially Liverpool was the port that served the shipping needs between Ireland and England. From that beginning, Liverpool rapidly developed into a world class port. It was never a major naval port, as most of the military marine activity was centered along the south coast facing Europe.

However the rapid growth of cotton growing in the American deep south, plus the need for farm labor for the sugar plantations in the Caribbean, resulted in a rapid growth in the slave trade.

The heroic lifetime work of Mr. William Wilberforce, a northern MP, resulted in the passage of a bill through the British parliament abolishing slaving, and Liverpool turned to more acceptable shipping.

From the late 1700's it became the major western European port for emigrants from Northern Europe to travel to the New World. In fact this shipping industry became so important that there is now a statue memorializing this activity at the Albert Dock entrance."



"The following link allows the user to access most of the Liverpool parishes and genealogy sites:

" Old Liverpool