Rock Ferry, Cheshire Family History Guide

Rock Ferry is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Cheshire, created in 1844 from Bebington Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: New Ferry.

Alternative names: Higher Bebington St Peter

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1844
Bishop’s Transcripts: None

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

ROCK-FERRY, a village and a chapelry in Bebington parish, Cheshire.

The village stands on the river Mersey, and on the Birkenhead and Chester railway, 1½ mile SSE of Birkenhead; consisted, about 1835, of only 3 or 4 houses; is now a considerable suburb of Birkenhead; contains many handsome villas; and has a post-office under Birkenhead, a r. station, and a half-hourly steam-boat-ferry to Liverpool.

The chapelry includes also the village and iron pier of New Ferry, and was constituted in 1844. Pop. in 1861, 2,086. Houses, 336.

The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Chester. Value, £161. Patrons, Trustees. The church was built in 1842; and is in the Norman style, with tower and spire.

A Wesleyan chapel is at Rock-Ferry; and national schools and a Brethren’s chapel are at New-Ferry.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Cheshire, Rock-Ferry – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Monumental inscriptions of St. Peter’s churchyard, Rock Ferry

England, Cheshire, Rock-Ferry – Church records ( 4 )
Church records for the Trinity Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, New Chester Road, Rock-Ferry, 1859-1956
Author: Trinity Chapel (Rock-Ferry, Cheshire : Wesleyan Methodist)

Church records for the Wesley Hall Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Rock-Ferry, 1894-1953
Author: Wesley Hall Chapel (Rock-Ferry, Cheshire : Wesleyan Methodist)

Parish registers for Rock-Ferry (Cheshire), 1844-1961
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Rock-Ferry (Cheshire); Cheshire Record Office

Parish registers for Rock-Ferry, St. Barnabas (Cheshire), 1903-1952
Author: Church of England. St. Barnabas’ Church (Rock-Ferry, Cheshire); Cheshire Record Office

England, Cheshire, Rock-Ferry – Directories ( 1 )
Rock Ferry & New Ferry, 1898
Author: Great Britain. Ordnance Survey; Godfrey, Alan

England, Cheshire, Rock-Ferry – Maps ( 1 )
Rock Ferry & New Ferry, 1898
Author: Great Britain. Ordnance Survey; Godfrey, Alan

Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

Administration

  • County: Cheshire
  • Civil Registration District: Wirral
  • Probate Court: Pre-1541 – Court of the Bishop of Lichfield (Episcopal Consistory), Post-1540 – Court of the Bishop of Chester (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Pre-1541 – Lichfield and Coventry, Post-1540 – Chester
  • Rural Deanery: Wirral
  • Poor Law Union: Wirral
  • Hundred: Wirral
  • Province: York