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England Cheshire  Birkenhead (city)

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



HISTORY
BIRKENHEAD, is a seaport town, a market town, and a township, and seven chapelries, in the district of Wirral, Cheshire. The town stands on the Mersey, opposite Liverpool, about a mile by water W of Liverpool, and 14 3/4 miles by railway NNW of Chester. Anciently the place was called Bircheved, Birkete, Birket-wood, and Birkenhedde.

The recorded history of Birkenhead began with the establishment of Birkenhead Priory and the Mersey Ferry in the 12th century. During the 19th century Birkenhead expanded greatly, becoming a town as a consequence of the Industrial Revolution, with Birkenhead Park and Hamilton Square being examples of the era. Around the same time, Birkenhead gained the first street tramway in Britain. Later, the Mersey Railway connected Birkenhead and Liverpool, with the world's first tunnel beneath a tidal estuary. Birkenhead is perhaps best known for the shipbuilding of Cammell Laird, and for the town's seaport.

On 1 April 1974, the UK Government reorganized the counties of England, and Birkenhead is now in the new county of Merseyside.

Cemeteries (Civil)
The links to information on cemeteries for Nottingham follow:


 * Nottingham City listings


 * Findagrave Nottingham Road cemetery


 * Findagrave Nottingham Church cemetery


 * Basford cemetery

Parishes
Nottingham as a City has been un-parished. A list of present church parishes follows:


 * St Paul, George Street, was a Church of England church built as a chapel of ease to St. Mary's Church, Nottingham. It was opened in 1822 and closed in 1924.
 * Holy Trinity
 * Address: Unity House,
 * Church St,
 * Nottingham NG7 2FF, UK
 * Phone: +44 115 998 9306


 * St John the Baptist
 * Address:
 * Oakdale Rd
 * Carlton, Nottingham NG4 1BP, UK
 * Phone:+44 115 808 3603


 * St Mark's
 * Address: De Vere Gardens
 * Woodthorpe, Nottingham NG5 4PH, UK
 * Phone:+44 115 926 7859


 * St. Mary's
 * Address:
 * High Pavemen
 * Nottingham NG1 1HN, UK
 * Phone:+44 115 948 3658


 * St Matthew, Talbot Street was a Church of England church in Nottingham between 1856 and 1956.


 * St. Nic's
 * Address:
 * 79 Maid Marian Way
 * Nottingham NG1 6AE
 * Phone:+44 115 952 4600


 * St. Peter's
 * Address:
 * St Peter's Gate
 * Nottingham NG1 2NW
 * Phone:+44 115 948 3658


 * St Ann with Emmanuel
 * Address:
 * Robin Hood Chase
 * Nottingham NG3 4EY
 * Phone:+44 115 950 5471

Non Conformists
Nottingham has the usual Christian church groups, including:


 * Baptist
 * Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
 * Catholic
 * Greek Orthodox
 * Methodist
 * Pentecostal
 * Unitarian

There are several other unusual Christian Groups, including:


 * The Nottingham Chinese Christian Church
 * The Trent Vinyard Group, specializing in Rock Band Religion.

Non Christian faiths include:


 * Buddhist
 * Hindu
 * Muslim
 * Sikh

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths records have been kept by government since July 1837 to the present day. Prior to that, local parishes of the Church of England, and local branches of other faiths were the only repositories of this information. There are several locations for BMD records for Nottingham. These follow:


 * Ancestry.com


 * uk/ Free BMD org UK


 * UKBMD org, Nottinghamshire


 * ukbmd Nottinghamshire BMD records


 * Nottinghamshire certificate requests


 * genuki Nottinghamshire

Local Histories

 * A History of Nottingham by Richard Gurnham


 * Local Histories: Nottingham


 * A History of Nottingham: British History

Maps and Gazetteers

 * Old Maps of Nottingham


 * Google Map of Nottingham


 * Nottinghamshire Government Maps

Newspapers

 * The Nottingham Post


 * The Beeston Express (Nottinghamshire)

Occupations
Most of the older industries for which Nottingham was famous, including major textiles, and lace making, have disappeared as competition from Far East manufacturers have undercut the economy. However the city has reinvented itself, attracting major companies in the pharmaceutical, sporting, and energy sectors.

Nottingham is now home to the headquarters, or UK headquarters of a number of major companies. Examples follow: Boots the Chemists (now Alliance Boots), Chinook Sciences, GM (cricket bats), Pedigree pet food company, American clothing VF Cooperation, Chinese-made automobiles Changan, the credit reference agency Experian, the energy company E.ON UK, the betting company Gala Group, the amusement and gambling-machine manufacturer Bell-Fruit-Games, the engineering company Siemens, the sportswear manufacturers Speedo, the high-street opticians Vision Express and Specsavers, the PC software developer Serif Europe (publisher of PagePlus and other titles), the Web hosting provider Heart Internet, and the American credit card company Capital One, and the national law firm Browne Jacobson.

Societies

 * Nottinghamshire FHS


 * Nottinghamshire Ancestry


 * Findmypast Nottinghamshire


 * Nottingham City FHS

Archives
The Nottinghamshire Archives:


 * County House
 * Castle Meadow Road
 * Nottingham, NG2 1AG


 * Telephone:
 * 0115 958 1634
 * Email:
 * archives@inspireculture.org.uk


 * Nottinghamshire County Archives


 * The National Archives; Nottinghamshire

Web Sites

 * wikipedia, Nottingham


 * Nottingham City Council


 * Nottinghamshire County Council


 * Nottinghamshire Family History Society