Liscard St Mary, Cheshire Genealogy

England Cheshire  Cheshire Parishes Liscard St Mary

Guide to Liscard St Mary, 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.

Church Records
Liscard St Mary Parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials have online indexes by the following groups:

Liscard St Mary was created a parish in 1878 from Wallasey.

Here is a list of parish registers on microfilm at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City.

Parish registers for St. Mary's Church, Liscard, 1877-1930 Cheshire Record Office call nos.: P226/1/1-5, P226/2/1-4.

Liscard was a chapelry in Wallasey parish.

Parish registers of St. Thomas' Church, Liscard, 1900-1946, Cheshire Record Office call nos.: P304/4523/1-5.

St. Columba's Church was a chapel of ease in Egremont, St. John's, Liscard. Liscard was a chapelry in Wallasey parish.

Parish registers of St. Columba, Egremont, 1904-1966 Liscard Cheshire. Cheshire Record Office call nos.: P212/1, P212/2/1-4.

Non-Conformist Churches

 * Independent - The Independent Church in Liscard later became Liscard Congregational Church and then Liscard United Reformed Church.
 * Catholic

Non-Conformists Church Records:

Register of marriages at Liscard Independant [sic] Chapel, Cheshire. The Independent Church in Liscard later became Liscard Congregational Church and then Liscard United Reformed Church.

The register of deaths and burials at Liscard Independent Chapel, Cheshire, 1845 to 1964. The Independent Church in Liscard later became Liscard Congregational Church and then Liscard United Reformed Church.

Register of baptisms at Liscard Independant [sic] Chapel and Field Road Misson, Cheshire. The Independent Church in Liscard later became Liscard Congregational Church and then Liscard United Reformed Church.

Church records of St. Alban's Catholic Church, Liscard, 1843-1952 Cheshire Record Office call no.: ERC 27/5473/1-3.

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 and death indexes available:


 * FreeBMD
 * Cheshire BMD

Registration Districts

 * Wirral (1837-1861)
 * Birkenhead (1861-1912)

Poor Law Unions

 * Wirral (1836-1861)
 * Birkenhead (1861-1912)

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
See a gazetteer description of Adlington at Vision of Britain.