Liverpool Christ Church, Lancashire Genealogy

Guide to Liverpool Christ Church, Lancashire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: chapelry register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Chapelry History
LIVERPOOL (Christ Church), Homer Street was a chapel of ease built in the year 1797 and stood within the civil parish boundaries of Liverpool St Peter and Nicholas. It was one of two by this same name in Greater Liverpool. (The other chapelry, known as Christ Church Hunter Street was created and in operation by 1832, was actually built in the parish of West Derby, on the western border of Liverpool Parish.) Baptismal registers date from March 11th 1797. In 1904 the Liverpool and Wigan Churches Act was passed. Under the terms of this Act, Christ Church, which had hitherto been regarded as an ecclesiastical district in the Parish of Liverpool became a separate parish 'for ecclesiastical purposes' (see sections 2 and 21). The Act also laid down, however, that 'from and after the next avoidance for the benefice of Christ Church' it should cease to be a separate ecclesiastical parish and should be merged with the parish of St. Stephen, Byrom Street. This amalgamation eventually took place in 1920 and Christ Church was closed.

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Civil Registration
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Online index of Lancashire Births, Marriages and Deaths Lancashire BMD

Church Records
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Church of England
Chapelry is a church or churches built in a large ecclesiastical parish to help the members attend worship services closer to their homes.

Online Parish Records Table

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 * Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
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 * Joiner Marriage Index - Lancashire ($)
 * The Genealogist Parish Registers - Lancashire ($)
 * UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records
 * OnLine Parish Clerks - Lancashire - OnLine Parish Clerks project for Lancashire

Non-Conformist Churches (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at Findmypast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

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.

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