Liverpool St Anne, Lancashire Genealogy

Guide to Liverpool St Anne, Lancashire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: chapelry register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Chapel History
LIVERPOOL (St Anne), Great Richmond-street, was erected in 1772. St Anne's was built as a chapel of ease and lay within the ancient parish boundaries of St Nicholas, Liverpool. It is a neat building of brick, in the early English style, with a square tower crowned by pinnacles; the east window is of painted glass.

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

Church Records
Online Records
 * 1538 - 1910 at FamilySearch — index

Online transcriptions exist for Liverpool St Anne's Richmond Street Chapel 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 all of Liverpool Parish’s (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

Liverpool St Anne's Chapelry (parish) registers are held at the Liverpool Record Office.

Parish registers, 1773-1967 St. Anne's Church (Liverpool, Lancashire) Microfilm of original records at the Liverpool Record Office. Liverpool Record Office reference: 283 ANN 1/1-2, 2/1-5, 3/1-15, 4/1-2, 5/1-2, 8/1-2, 10/1. These registers have also been microfilmed by FamilySearch and they are available through its 4600 FamilySearch Centers worldwide. They are as follows:

Marriages, baptisms, burials (General), 1773-1812 Baptisms, 1813-1968 Marriages, 1777-1797 FHL BRITISH Film 1656149 Items 2-11 Marriages, 1797-1822 FHL BRITISH Film 1656150 Marriages, 1822-1856 FHL BRITISH Film 1656151 Marriages, 1856-1965 Burials, 1813-1858 Banns, 1844-1853, 1886-1967 Memoranda of baptisms &amp; burials, 1800-1813 Memoranda of marriages, 1798-1800 Confirmations, 1887-1947 FHL BRITISH Film 1656152

Bishop's transcripts for St. Anne's Church, Liverpool, 1773-1856 Microfilm of original records at the Lancashire Record Office, Preston. Baptisms, marriages and burials, 1773-1826. FHL BRITISH Film 1068894 Items 2 - 7 Baptisms, marriages and burials, 1827-1842; baptisms, 1849-1856. FHL BRITISH Film 1068946 Item 1

Known Issue Batch 103376-6 Source film 1656149 has been found to contain entries of marriages for this parish with the place of marriage listed as Liverpool St Andrew, Lancashire. Both parishes are contained on film 1656149.

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.

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