Liscard St Mary, Cheshire Genealogy

Guide to Liscard St Mary, Cheshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
LISCARD, a township, in the parish of Wallasey, union, and Lower division of the hundred, of Wirrall, S. division of the county of Chester, 3 miles (N. by W.) from Birkenhead. There are places of worship for Independents and Primitive Methodists; and a Roman Catholic chapel (St. Alban's), built in 1842.

Church Records
Liscard St Mary parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

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

Records are also available at the Cheshire Archives and Local Studies.

Non-Conformist Churches

 * Independent - The Independent Church in Liscard later became Liscard Congregational Church and then Liscard United Reformed Church.
 * Catholic

Non-Conformists Church Records:

Register of marriages at Liscard Independant [sic] Chapel, Cheshire. The Independent Church in Liscard later became Liscard Congregational Church and then Liscard United Reformed Church.

The register of deaths and burials at Liscard Independent Chapel, Cheshire, 1845 to 1964. The Independent Church in Liscard later became Liscard Congregational Church and then Liscard United Reformed Church.

Register of baptisms at Liscard Independant [sic] Chapel and Field Road Misson, Cheshire. The Independent Church in Liscard later became Liscard Congregational Church and then Liscard United Reformed Church.

Church records of St. Alban's Catholic Church, Liscard, 1843-1952 Cheshire Record Office call no.: ERC 27/5473/1-3.

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 and death indexes available:


 * FreeBMD
 * Cheshire BMD

Registration Districts

 * Wirral (1837-1861)
 * Birkenhead (1861-1912)

Poor Law Unions

 * Wirral (1836-1861)
 * Birkenhead (1861-1912)

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
See a gazetteer description of Adlington at Vision of Britain.