Toxteth Park St Thomas, Lancashire Genealogy

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

Chapelry History
Toxteth Park was originally an extra-parochial district possessing at least eight chapels of ease--of which St Thomas' was one. St Thomas was originally created a chapel if ease and stood within the parish boundary of St Nicholas Liverpool. It was built in 1817; dedicated in 1818; and became an ecclesiastical parish created in 1898 from Walton on the Hill.

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 Internet sites with name lists or indexes:


 * 1) FreeBMD - has over 250 million birth, marriage and death entries
 * 2) Lancashire BMD - Online index of Lancashire Births, Marriages and Deaths

Online Records

 * 1538 - 1910 at FamilySearch — index

There are online transcriptions for St Thomas, Toxteth Park (in the parish of Liverpool St Nicholas, and the baptism, marriage and burial registers of many of its sister chapelries lying within Toxteth Park's extra-parochial district. Displayed below are links to the online content for St Thomas' chapelry (as well all chapelries in Toxteth Park and included below is St Nicholas Parish) with available online data located at the following websites; note the ranges of years:

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 Toxteth Park St Michaels chapelry and sister chapelries' registers are also 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.

Poor Law Unions
Liverpool, Lancashire Poor Law Union West Derby, Lancashire Poor Law Union Toxteth Park, 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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain