Bevington, Lancashire Genealogy

England Lancashire  Lancashire Parishes

Chapelry History
Bevington St Alban was a chapelry in 'Liverpool St Peter and St Nicholas, Lancashire', created in 1845.

The church was founded in 1846 and closed in 1941 when it sustained bomb damage. It was later demolished.

"Bevington, a chapelry in Liverpool Parish; in the northern part of Liverpool borough. Population, 14,381. Houses, 2,161. It was constituted in 1845; and is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester."

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

Parish registers for St. Alban's Church, Liverpool Microfilm of original records at the Parish Church, Liverpool and the Liverpool Record Office. Liverpool Record Office no.: 283 ALB 2/1-5, 3/1-5.

Baptisms, 1846-1941. FHL BRITISH Film 93797 Baptisms, 1846-1920 (another filming). FHL BRITISH Film 1656146 Items 2 - 6 Marriages, 1850-1886. FHL BRITISH Film 93798 Marriages, 1850-1875 (another filming). FHL BRITISH Film 1656146 Items 7 - 8 Marriages, 1886-1947. Banns, 1892-1937. FHL BRITISH Film 93799 Marriages, 1875-1920 (another filming). Banns, 1892-1937 (another filming). FHL BRITISH Film 1656147 Items 1 - 4

Census records
http://www.1881pubs.com/ for details of public houses in the 1881 census

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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