Liverpool St Peter and St Nicholas, Lancashire Genealogy

England Lancashire  Lancashire Parishes

Here's a Comprehensive List of Liverpool Parishes and Chapelries

Parish History
For an extensive 1848 perspective on Liverpool, Lancashire, see Lewis' Topographical Dictionary of England. St Peter with St Nicholas was the ancient and civil parish of Liverpool, commencing in ancient times. Its surviving registers begin in the year 1604. (To see a list of churches and chapels in greater Liverpool, be certain to view the Comprehensive List of Liverpool Parishes and Chapelries and to learn of the availability of their respective baptism and burial registers (only a few chapelries within Liverpool Parish were allowed to marry, hence very few marriage registers exist especially prior to 1837.)

Liverpool [St Peter and St Nicholas] is an Ecclesiastical Parish and a market town in the county of Lancashire, created in 1699 from Walton on the Hill St Mary, Lancashire Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Castle Street, St Thomas, Dale Street, Great Howard Street, Islington, Lime Street, Lime Street and St Anne's Pitt Street and Great George, Liverpool Exchange, Liverpool St Peter, Mount Pleasant, Rodney, Rodney and Abercrombie, Scotland, St George, St Martin, St Paul's and Exchange, and Castle Street and St Peter's.

(See the "Comprehensive List of Liverpool Parishes and Chapelries", above, and/or the 1851 Jurisdictions Map for further information on all greater Liverpool chapels of ease and district churches.)

[We invite anyone with knowledge on Liverpool's nonconformist denominations to write a brief study, here.]

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.

Online index of Lancashire Births, Marriages and Deaths Lancashire BMD

Lancashire Online Parish Clerks
An extremely useful resource for research in Lancashire Parishes http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/

Church records
Online Records

There may be online transcriptions for many of the numerous Liverpool City ecclesiastical parishes--including the ancient parish of St Nicholas, and the baptism, marriage and burial registers of many of its numerous chapelries lying within its boundaries. Displayed below are those chapelries (including St Nicholas Parish) with available online data located at the following web sites; note the ranges of years:

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Original Records

Original parish and chapel registers are held at the Liverpool Record Office, William Brown Street, Liverpool L3 8EW, United Kingdom.

Microfilmed copies of original Liverpool St Peter parish and most of its numerous chapelry registers are mostly available at the Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A. and its 4,600 satellite FamilySearch Centersworldwide. These films may be ordered for and original baptism, marriage and burial entries may be viewed at these centers. Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

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

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