Garston, Lancashire Genealogy

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Chapelry History
Garston St Michael, Church Road was created as a chapelry in 1729 in Childwall, Lancashire Ancient Parish. Other places in the parish include: Speke.

Garston is a district of Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It is bordered by Aigburth, Allerton, and Speke.

Gaerstun, meaning 'grazing settlement' or 'grazing farm' in Old English, is one possible root of the name.

In Medieval times, Garston was home to a group of Benedictine monks. The first recorded mention of settlement in Garston is of the church of St. Michael in 1235. By the 19th century, the area had become a small village, one of the eight townships forming the parish of Childwall.

A small dock was first built at Garston in 1793 for Blackburne’s saltworks, which still stands today.

Garston's growth accelerated rapidly in the 1840s, when in 1846, the area's first dock was constructed and opened, under the auspices of the St Helens and Runcorn Gap Railway Company. The "Old Dock" was followed twenty years later by a second, the "New Dock". In 1902, Garston was incorporated into the City of Liverpool.

The present day church of St Michael is the third to occupy the site since the thirteenth century monastic settlement. It was built in the 1870's and consecrated 29 November 1877.

The modern parish forms the Garston St Michael benefice in the Liverpool South Childwall deanery of the diocese of Liverpool and was formerly a Diocese of Chester parish.

"GARSTON, a small town, a township, and a chapelry, in Childwall parish, Lancashire. The town stands on the Mersey, and on the Warrington, Garston, and Liverpool railway, 6 miles SE of Liverpool; was once noted for extensive salt-works; is now a sub-port to Liverpool, with new docks; and has a railway station with telegraph, and a post office‡ under Liverpool. -The township includes also Aigburth, a suburb of Liverpool. Acres, 3, 293; of which 1, 665 are water. Real property, £31, 643. Pop. in 1851, 2, 756; in 1861, 4, 720. Houses, 763.—The chapelry includes only the eastern part of the township; excludes Aigburth; and was constituted in 1828. Pop., 2, 016. Houses, 356. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester. Value, £138.* Patron, Richard Watt, Esq. The church is very good; and there are two dissenting chapels, Church schools, and charities £12."

John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1872)

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

Lancashire Online Parish Clerks
An extremely useful resource for research in Lancashire Parishes http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/

Church records
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Parish registers for St. Michael's Church, Garston Microfilm of original records in the Liverpool Public Library. Later refilmed from original records in the Liverpool Record Office.Liverpool Record Office no.: 1/1, 2/1-14, 3/1-5, 4/1-9.

Baptisms, 1777-1898; Burials, 1777-1813. FHL BRITISH Film 396364 Baptisms, 1898-1920, 1929-1943. FHL BRITISH Film 396365 Marriages, 1839-1903. FHL BRITISH Film 396366 Marriages, 1903-1919. FHL BRITISH Film 396367 Marriages, 1919-1925. FHL BRITISH Film 396368 Marriages, 1925-1939. FHL BRITISH Film 396369 Burials, 1813-1886. FHL BRITISH Film 396370 Burials, 1887-1918, 1920-1958. FHL BRITISH Film 396371 Parish church accounts, 1877-1895. FHL BRITISH Film 396372 Baptisms, 1777-1813; Burials, 1777-1813; Baptisms, 1813-1860 (another filming). FHL BRITISH Film 1545768 Items 6 - 8 Baptisms, 1860-1913 (another filming). FHL BRITISH Film 1545769 Baptisms, 1913-1935; Marriages, 1839-1901 (another filming). FHL BRITISH Film 1545770 Marriages, 1901-1925; Burials, 1813-1871 (another filming). FHL BRITISH Film 1545771 Burials, 1871-1918 (another filming). FHL BRITISH Film 1545772 Items 1 - 7

Bishop's transcripts for Garston, Grassendale, and St. Matthew's and St. James' Church, Mossley Hill

Microfilm of original records at the Lancashire Record Office, Preston. Garston and Grassendale are chapelries in the parish of Childwall. Lancashire Record Office: DRL 2/17

Baptisms and burials, 1813-1847 in Garston; baptisms, 1868-1879 in Grassendale; baptisms, 1875-1876 in St. Matthew's and St. James' Church, Mossley Hill. FHL BRITISH Film 1068854 Item 2

Census records
http://www.1881pubs.com/ for details of public houses in the 1881 census

Poor Law Unions
West Derby, 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
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Web sites
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