Birkenhead All Saints, Cheshire Genealogy

England Cheshire  Birkenhead All Saints

Parish History
Birkenhead, All Saints, Shrewsbury Road. Built in 1879, a separate parish from 1911 serving parts of Birkenhead, Bidston and Oxton; closed in 1971

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.

Church records
To find the names of the neighbouring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Parish registers for the St. Bede's and All Saints' Church, Birkenhead, 1910-1959

Cheshire Record Office reference: P83/1, P83/2/1-4.

An index for Cheshire parish registers is available online in FamilySearch Historical Records (formerly Record Search). Here is a list of church records on microfilm at the Family History Library (FHL) in Salt Lake City.

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

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.

Poor Law Unions
Wirral Poor Law Union, Cheshire

Birkenhead Poor Law Union, Cheshire

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
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