Birkenhead St Bede (All Saints) Cheshire Family History Guide
Birkenhead St Bede was an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Cheshire created in 1911 from Oxton Ecclesiastical Parish and Bidston Ancient Parish. The parish of Birkenhead St Bede was abolished in 1972 with the creation of Birkenhead St James with St Bede.
The district church for Birkenhead St Bede was All Saints, where all baptisms and marriages were carried out. This is why the parish registers for this parish are headed “All Saints Church in the Parish of St Bede, Birkenhead.”
Birkenhead All Saints Church, Shrewsbury road, Oxton Ward:
- British National Grid Ref: SJ 30018 88412
- BNG Eastings, Northings: 330018, 388412
- Latitude, Longitude: 53.387893, -3.053693
Birkenhead St Bede Mission Room, Upton road, Claughton Ward:
- British National Grid Ref: SJ 29855 89232
- BNG Eastings, Northings: 329855, 389232
- Latitude, Longitude: 53.395241, -3.056327
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Birkenhead St Bede Parish Registers
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Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records
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Birkenhead All Saints, Cheshire Church of England Baptisms, 1910-1947
Birkenhead St. Bede, Cheshire Church of England Baptisms, 1888-1907
Marriage and Banns Records
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Birkenhead All Saints, Cheshire Church of England Marriages and Banns 1911-1944
Parish History
The following notice, extracted from the London Gazette 24 January 1911, is the formal creation of Birkenhead St Bede.
We, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, in pursuance of the Act of the eighth and ninth years of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria, chapter seventy, of the Act of the fourteenth and fifteenth years of Her said late Majesty, chapter ninety-seven, and of the Act of the nineteenth and twentieth years of Her said late Majesty, chapter fifty-five, have prepared, and now humbly lay before Your Majesty in Council, the following representation as to the assignment of a consolidated chapelry to the consecrated church of All Saints, Birkenhead, situate within the new parish (sometime particular district) of Saint Saviour, Oxton, in the county of Chester and in the diocese of Chester.
Whereas at certain extremities of the said new parish of Saint Saviour, Oxton, and of the parish of Bidston, in the said county and diocese, which said extremities lie contiguous one to another, and are described in the schedule hereunder written, there is collected together a population which is situate at a distance from the several churches of such new parish and parish.
We, the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, humbly represent, that it would, in our opinion, be expedient that all those contiguous portions of the said new parish of Saint Saviour, Oxton, and of the said parish of Bidston, which are described in the schedule hereunder written, all which portions, together with the boundaries thereof, are delineated and set forth on the map or plan hereunto annexed, should be united and formed into one consolidated chapelry for the said church of All Saints, Birkenhead, situate as aforesaid, and that the same should be named ‘The Consolidated Chapelry of Saint Bede, Birkenhead.’
The SCHEDULE to which the foregoing Representation has reference. “The Consolidated Chapelry of Saint Bede, Birkenhead, comprising:— ”
I. All that portion of the new parish (sometime particular district) of Saint Saviour, Oxton, in the county of Chester and in the diocese of Chester, which is bounded upon the north by the parish of Bidston, upon the east by the new parish of Christ Church, Claughton cum Grange, both in the said county and diocese, and upon the remaining sides, that is to say, upon the south and upon the west, by an imaginary line commencing upon the boundary, which divides the said new parish of Christ Church, Claughton cum Grange, from the said new parish of Saint Saviour, Oxton, at the junction of the road called Manor Hill with the road called Sandy Way, and extending thence south-westward along the middle of Sandy Way for a distance of nine chains or thereabouts to its junction with Shrewsbury Road North, and extending thence northward along the middle of Shrewsbury Road North for a distance of seven chains or thereabouts to the boundary which divides the said new parish of Saint Saviour, Oxton, from the said parish of Bidston.
II. And also all that portion of the said parish of Bidston, which is bounded upon all sides as follows, that is to say, upon the north – west and upon the north by the new parish of Saint James, Birkenhead, upon the east partly by the last-named new parish and partly by the new parish of Saint Anne, Birkenhead, both in the said county and diocese, upon the south partly by the said new parish of Christ Church, Claughton cum Grange, and partly by the above-described portion of the said new parish of Saint Saviour, Oxton, and upon the south-west partly by the last-named new parish and partly by an imaginary line commencing at the point near the eastern end of Ashburton Road where the boundary which divides the said new parish of Saint Saviour, Oxton, from the said parish of Bidston meets the middle of Ashburton Road, and extending thence eastward along the middle of Ashburton Road for a distance of two chains and a half or thereabouts to its junction with Tollemache Road, and extending thence north-westward along the middle of Tollemache Road for a distance of twenty-one chains and a half or thereabouts to a point opposite to the boundary stone on the eastern side of Tollemache Road where the boundary which divides the said parish of Bidston from the said new parish of Saint James, Birkenhead, meets the eastern side of such road, and extending thence east ward across Tollemache Road to the said boundary stone.
See Also Birkenhead, Cheshire Family History Guide
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Further Reading
Sources
The following sources have been used to compile this article.
- F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991)
- FamilySearch Research Wiki – Cheshire, England Genealogy
- Cheshire Archives and Local Studies Catalogue
- Ancestry.co.uk
