Liverpool St Barnabas, Lancashire Genealogy

Guide to Liverpool St Barnabas, Lancashire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: chapelry register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Chapelry History
LIVERPOOL (St Barnabas) Parliament Street chapel was created by the year 1841 and was one of nearly 60 such chapelries within the boundary comprising the ancient parish of Liverpool St Nicholas and St Peter. The building is in the early English style, and is built of red stone, with a tower and spire 135 feet high. It was abolished in 1892-1893.

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. Here are two major Internet sites with name lists or indexes to these records of vital content:


 * 1) FreeBMD - has over 250 million entries of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales
 * 2) Lancashire BMD - Online index of Lancashire (only) Births, Marriages and Deaths

Church Records
Online Records
 * 1538 - 1910 at FamilySearch — index

Online transcriptions exist for Liverpool St Barnabas' Chapel registers as well as for Liverpool's ancient parish of St Nicholas' baptism, marriage and burial registers. Displayed below are those links to online data for both this chapelry and for the ancient parish of St Nicholas located in the following websites; note the ranges of years:

To view a full list for all of Liverpool Parish’s (nearly 60) chapelries, ecclesiastical churches, and district chapels, and to view online baptism, marriage and burial transcription indexes, visit the LIVERPOOL ST PETER &amp; ST NICHOLAS PARISH page.

Original Records

Liverpool St Barnabas' Chapelry (parish) registers are held at the Liverpool Record Office. These registers have also been microfilmed by FamilySearch and they are available through its 4600 FamilySearch Centers worldwide.

Non Conformist Records

 * 1647-1996 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)

Poor Law Unions
Liverpool, 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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain