Birkenhead All Saints, Cheshire Genealogy

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Guide to Birkenhead All Saints, Cheshire family history and genealogy: parish registers (baptism, christening, marriage, and burial records), civil registration (birth, marriage, and death records), census records, history, wills, cemetery, online transcriptions and indexes, an interactive map and websites.

Parish History
Birkenhead, All Saints, Shrewsbury Road. Built in 1879, a separate parish from 1911 serving parts of Birkenhead, Bidston and Oxton; closed in 1971

BIRKENHEAD is a seaport town, a market town, and a township, and a parochial chapel over seven separate chapelries, created originally from the ancient parish of Bidstone (which also see), in the district of Wirral, Cheshire. The town stands on the Mersey, opposite Liverpool, about a mile by water west of Liverpool, and 14 3/4 miles by railway north by northwest of Chester. It comprises the ancient extra parochial district or chapelry of Birkenhead and the following chapelies attached to it:


 * All Saints - 1879
 * St Mary - 1719
 * Holy Trinity - 1840
 * St Anne - 1850
 * St James - 1865
 * St John - 1859
 * St Matthew - 1889
 * St Paul - 1863
 * St Peter - 1867
 * Mariner's Chapel - (by) 1847

Part of the parochial boundary of Birkenhead Chapelry includes the former township of Claughton, in Bidstone ancient parish, and part of Oxton Township, in Woodchurch ancient parish (which also see). These two townships have been incorporated into the township and chapelry of Birkenhead.

There are upwards of thirty non-established places of worship (including Claughton and Oxton). There are two Roman Catholic churches. Birkenhead All Saints was built in 1879 as a chapel to Oxton (St Saviour).

Church records
Birkenhead All Saints parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials have been indexed by the following groups:

To find the names of the neighbouring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Parish registers for the St. Bede's and All Saints' Church, Birkenhead, 1910-1959

Cheshire Record Office reference: P83/1, P83/2/1-4.

An index for Cheshire parish registers is available online in FamilySearch Historical Records (formerly Record Search). Here is a list of church records on microfilm at the Family History Library (FHL) in Salt Lake City.

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from 1 July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. Here are two excellent Internet sites with birth, marriage a nd death indexes available:


 * FreeBMD
 * Cheshire BMD

Registration Districts

 * Wirral

Poor Law Unions
Wirral Poor Law Union, Cheshire

Birkenhead Poor Law Union, Cheshire

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Cheshire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

see also England Cheshire Probate Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)

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