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England Cheshire  Birkenhead (city)

Guide to Birkenhead history, family history, and genealogy:' parish registers, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.



HISTORY
BIRKENHEAD, is a seaport town, a market town, and a township, and seven chapelries, in the district of Wirral, Cheshire. The town stands on the Mersey, opposite Liverpool, about a mile by water W of Liverpool, and 14 3/4 miles by railway NNW of Chester. Anciently the place was called Bircheved, Birkete, Birket-wood, and Birkenhedde.

The recorded history of Birkenhead began with the establishment of Birkenhead Priory and the Mersey Ferry in the 12th century. During the 19th century Birkenhead expanded greatly, becoming a town as a consequence of the Industrial Revolution, with Birkenhead Park and Hamilton Square being examples of the era. Around the same time, Birkenhead gained the first street tramway in Britain. Later, the Mersey Railway connected Birkenhead and Liverpool, with the world's first tunnel beneath a tidal estuary. Birkenhead is perhaps best known for the shipbuilding of Cammell Laird, and for the town's seaport.

On 1 April 1974, the UK Government reorganized the counties of England, and Birkenhead is now in the new county of Merseyside.

Cemeteries (Civil)
Flaybrick Hill Cemetery


 * Address:
 * Tollemache Rd
 * Birkenhead CH41 0DG, UK
 * Phone: +44 151 677 2361

Landican Cemetery and Crematorium


 * Arrowe Park Road
 * Woodchurch
 * Wirral CH49 5LW
 * Tel: 0151 666 3001
 * Email: landicancemetery@wirral.gov.uk

Other sources follow:


 * UK Government Cemeteries


 * Billion Graves


 * Roots Chat