Birkenhead St John the Evangelist Cheshire Family History Guide

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Birkenhead St John the Evangelist and Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Cheshire created in 1859 from Birkenhead St Mary Ecclesiastical Parish.

Ecclesiastical Parish created from Birkenhead St John the Evangelist include:

Birkenhead St John the Evangelist location:

  • British National Grid Ref: SJ 31890 88530
  • BNG Eastings, Northings: 331890, 388530
  • Latitude, Longitude: 53.389201, -3.025582

Birkenhead St John Parish Registers

Search online registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials including digitised images of original records and registers and indexed transcriptions.

Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers of baptism, marriage, and burial records.

Birkenhead St. John the Evangelist, Cheshire Church of England Baptisms, 1859-1931

Marriage and Banns Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers of marriages and banns records.

Birkenhead St John the Evangelist, Cheshire Church of England Marriages and Banns 1859-1946

Parish History

See Birkenhead, Cheshire Family History Guide

Historical Directories

A Green & Co.’s Directory for Liverpool & Birkenhead 1870 Published by A Green & Co., 2 New Broad Street, London; and 4 Vernon Chambers, Vernon Street, Dale Street Liverpool. Contents: Alphabetical list of street, Alphabetical directory of the principal private houses of Liverpool, Alphabetical trades directory, Alphabetical list of trades and professions, Liverpool districts of, Birkenhead, Birkenhead districts of, Principal tradesmen of Chester, Manchester, Warrington, Names received too late for classification, Local information, Bank and Bankers on London, Advertisements. File size: 64 MB View Free PDF*
A Green & Co.’s Directory for Liverpool & Birkenhead 1870

Historical Maps

View detailed 19th-century Ordnance Survey maps from the National Library of Scotland Maps – includes OS 25 inch 1892-1918 maps, a vast range of other historical OS maps and land use maps. These maps reveal old street layouts, parish boundaries, and landmarks long since vanished.

Alan Godfrey Old Ordnance Survey Maps

Chester and Central Cheshire 1905 One Inch Sheet 109

The full range of Cheshire maps produced by Alan Godfrey are available in the Cheshire Maps section of the Books & Maps area. There you can search by principal villages and parishes, by key features for town and city plans, and sort the maps by type and scale. Coverage is taken from the places listed in Alan Godfrey’s own map descriptions, although smaller parishes may not be explicitly named. View all the Cheshire & District Alan Godfrey Maps.

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

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