Oxton, Cheshire Genealogy

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

Introduction
Oxton is a suburb of Birkenhead, on the Wirral Peninsula, Merseyside, England. Administratively it is a ward of the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral. Originally a village in its own right, it became part of the Municipal Borough of Birkenhead upon its creation in 1877. Before local government reorganisation on 1 April 1974, it was part of the County Borough of Birkenhead, within the county of Cheshire.

Parish History
OXTON, a village, a township, and a chapelry, in Woodchurch parish, Cheshire. The village stands 2 miles W of Birkenhead r. station, and has a post-office‡under Birkenhead.

Church Records
Oxton Parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials have online indexes by the following groups:

Formerly a chapelry in Woodchurch parish, made a parish in 1865.

Here is a list of parish registers on microfilm at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. The parish church of S. Savior, Oxton

Bishop's transcripts for St. Saviour's Church, Oxton, 1851-1896

Non-Conformist Churches

 * Wesleyan Methodist
 * Roman Catholic

Non-Conformists Church Records:

Palm Grove Chapel (Oxton Wesleyan Methodist) Church Records 1858-1887; Cheshire Record Office: EMS 139/13.

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 (1837-61)
 * Birkenhead (1861-98)

Poor Law Unions

 * Wirral (1836-1861)
 * Birkenhead (1861-98)

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.