Aigburth, Lancashire Genealogy

England Lancashire  Lancashire Parishes

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

Chapelry History
AIGBURTH, or Aigburgh, a district chapelry, in the township of Garston, parish of Childwall, 4 miles (S. E.) from Liverpool. The chapel, dedicated to St. Anne, was erected in 1837 and is a good edifice in the Norman style, with a highly decorated interior; the east window is of stained glass, representing Christ healing the Leper: the tower is 65 feet high, with a richly ornamented battlement. A Roman Catholic chapel, dedicated to St. Augustine, was built in 1837.

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/

Online Records
Aigburth chapelry's registers of christenings, marriages and burials, along with those of the ancient parish of Childwall, to which it is attached, have been mostly transcribed and are displayed online at the following web sites and ranges of years:

For a full list of all those chapels surrounding Aigburth and comprising the whole ancient parish of Childwall to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the CHILDWALL PARISH page.

Poor Law Unions
West Derby, 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

Websites
Aigburth on GENUKI

http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?pid=1&amp;id=213625 English heritage web reference