Liverpool St Peter and St Nicholas, Lancashire Genealogy

Guide to the ancient parochial or mother parish of Liverpool St Peter and St Nicholas, Lancashire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Here's a Comprehensive List of Liverpool Parishes and Chapelries

Parish History
LIVERPOOL (St Peter with St Nicholas) is the ancient parish and a major 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.

For an extensive 1848 perspective on Liverpool, Lancashire, see Lewis' St Peter with St Nicholas was the ancient and civilparish 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 1754 to 1837.)

[Anyone with knowledge on Liverpool's Nonconformist denominations is welcome to write a brief study, here.]

Humphreys, R.H. The Welsh in Liverpool. A description of Welsh activities in Liverpool. Includes a list of Welsh nonconformist chapels. The author, suggests using Welsh newspapers for birth, marriages and deaths and provides a list of newspapers. Article covers years 1850-1887, to be found in journal called Hel Achau, no. 6. May 1982, pages 5-8, Family History Library Ref. 942.93 D25h

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths from July, 1837 to present day were kept by the government. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are for Lancashire, some Internet sites which offer significant content for Lancashire ancestry. These include, but are not limited to the following:


 * 1) LancashireBMD which currently approaches 20 million entries of birth, marriages and deaths for this county. The online index in most entries provides the name of the parish (or chapel of ease) where the marriage was performed.
 * 2) FreeBMD provides mostly indexed births, marriages and deaths from 1837 to 1945

Church Records
Online Records


 * 1538 - 1910 at FamilySearch — index

There are online transcriptions for many of the Liverpool City's ecclesiastical parishes--including Liverpool's 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 parishes and chapelries (including St Nicholas Parish) with links to available online data located at the following websites; note the ranges of years:

Roman Catholics

Here are at least four Roman Catholic marriage indexes available for searching, online:


 * Ancestry.co.uk has 3.3 million Roman Catholic entries in this online ($) database.
 * St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Woolton, Liverpool 1757-1907 at Rootsweb.com
 * Liverpool RC Marriages - 1837-1901
 * Liverpool Area Roman Catholic Marriage Index- 1800-1900 (many Irish entries)

Original Records

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

FamilySearch has microfilmed the original Liverpool St Peter parish and a majority of its numerous chapelry registers. These registers are mostly available at the Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A. and its 4,600 satellite FamilySearch Centers worldwide. These films may be ordered for and original baptism, marriage and burial entries may be viewed at these centers. Include below is information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts and other types of church records, such as parish chest records.

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