Egremont, Cheshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
LISCARD, a township, in the parish of Wallasey, union, and Lower division of the hundred, of Wirral, S. division of the county of Chester, 3 miles N by W from Birkenhead. The hamlet of Egremont is also in the township. A church, dedicated to St. John and in the Grecian style of architecture, was erected at Egremont in 1833. There are places of worship for Independents and Primitive Methodists; and a Roman Catholic chapel (St. Alban's), built in 1842.

Church Records
Egremont St John parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Egremont St John Otherwise Liscard, Church Street created a parish in 1884 from Wallasey and Seacombe.

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

Parish registers for St. John's Church, Liscard, 1834-1952 Cheshire Record Office no.: P79/1-3, P79/4707/1-3, 6-7, 10-11; P79/2/3-4.

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 Cheshire Record Office call nos.: P212/1, P212/2/1-4.

Non-Conformist Churches
Not known
 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Egremont (see Liscard) on GENUKI