Little Crosby, Lancashire Genealogy

Guide to Little Crosby, Lancashire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: chapelry register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Chapelry History
Great Crosby a township with a district chapel called St Luke was built by at least 1749, and stood in the parish of Sefton, union and hundred of West Derby, S. division of the county of Lancaster, 7¾ miles north by west of Liverpool. A Roman Catholic chapel was built in Little Crosby, was dedicated to the Blessed Virgin or St Mary's, was erected by 1801 and rebuilt in 1847.

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 powerful Internet sites with name lists or indexes:


 * 1) FreeBMD - over 250 million entries for births, marriages and deaths
 * 2) LancashireBMD - contains births marriages and deaths for Lancashire (only)

Church Records

 * 1538 - 1910 at FamilySearch — index

Online Records

Online transcriptions exist for Great (Little) Crosby Chapelry 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 Liverpool's Parishes, (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

Great Crosby 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.

Courtesy of Anna Rosemary Tumilty Website for this Parish:

Transcribed by Eileen Hunt of Ontario, Canada:


 * Baptisms 1801-1839
 * Baptisms 1839-1856
 * Confirmations 1821-1831
 * Marriages 1835-1856
 * Deaths 1812-1856

Transcribed by John Quick

A comparison between the Parish Registers of Little Crosby and St. Helen's, Sefton Parish Church

Little Crosby Tombstone Records done by Anna Rosemary Tumilty, note you need to scroll down on her site to view the list done in sections.

Non Conformist Records

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

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