Liverpool St Mark, Lancashire Genealogy

England Lancashire  Lancashire Parishes

Chapelry History
Liverppol St Mark Upper Duke Street was an Ecclesiastical parish from Liverpool St Peter and St Nicholas, Lancashire

The church was closed in 1913 and demolished therafter; the parishioners transferred to St Mark Edge Lane.

St Mark Liverpool was built as a chapel of ease within the civil parish boundaries of St Nicholas Liverpool. It was erected in 1803.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis (1848), pp. 104-118. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51112 Date accessed: 02 July 2010.

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
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Bishop's transcripts for St. Mark's Church, Liverpool Microfilm of original records at the Lancashire Record Office, Preston.

Baptisms and burials, 1815-1843; marriages, 1815-1840. FHL BRITISH Film 1468864

Census records
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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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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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