Liverpool St Catherine, Lancashire Genealogy

England Lancashire  Lancashire Parishes

Chapelry History
St Catherine Liverpool, was created a "subscription" chapel and was completed by January 1831. [It was] "situated on the east side Abercromby square. The edifice was built in a classical style consisting of a chancel, nave, aisles and turret, bell and seat for 1200 persons. An unusual feature of the the church is handsome dome." Adapted from: http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/Liverpool/Liverpool-Central/stcatherine/index.html

St Catherine Liverpool lay within the boundaries of Liverpool St Nicholas and St Peter parish (which see).

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

Lancashire Online Parish Clerks
An extremely useful resource for research in Lancashire Parishes http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/

Church records
Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

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.

Maps and Gazetteers
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