Birkenhead St James, Cheshire Genealogy

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Birkenhead St James

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

Birkenhead St James, Cheshire
Birkenhead St James
Type	Ecclesiastical Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
Hundred	Wirrall
County	Cheshire, England Genealogy
Poor Law Union	Wirral
Registration District	Wirrall
Records begin
Parish registers: 1865
Bishop's Transcripts: 1898
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery	Wirral
Diocese	Pre-1541 - Lichfield and Coventry; Post-1540 - Chester
Province	Canterbury
Legal Jurisdictions
Probate Court	Pre-1541 - Court of the Bishop of Lichfield (Episcopal Consistory) Post-1540 - Court of the Bishop of Cheshire (Episcopal Consistory)
Location of Archive
Cheshire Record Office

Parish History

Birkenhead, St. James, Laird Street/Hoylake Road. Built in 1858 as a chapel to St Mary, becoming a separate parish in 1876.

BIRKENHEAD, a seaport town, a market town, and a township, and seven chapelries, in the district of Wirral, Cheshire. The town stands on the Mersey, opposite Liverpool, about a mile by water W of Liverpool, and 14 3/4 miles by railway NNW of Chester. It comprises the ancient extra parochial district orchapelry of Birkenhead, the former township of Claughton, in Bidston, and part of that of Oxton, in Woodchurch. They have been incorporated with the township of Birkenhead. The place was anciently called Bircheved, Birkete, Birket-wood, and Birkenhedde.

There are upward of thirty non-established places of worship (including Claughton and Oxton). There are two Roman Catholic churches. There is also a Mariners' church. St. James, was constituted in 1841.

Resources

Census records

Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.

Church records

Birkenhead St James parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials have been indexed by the following groups:

FS PR's =FamilySearch Parish Registers

FS BT's = FamilySearch Bishops Transcripts

Birkenhead St James Parish (1865) Online Records
	Baptisms		Marriages		Burials
	Indexes	Images	Indexes	Images	Indexes	Images
FS PR's	1865-1909	NONE	1869-1934	NONE	NONE	NONE
FS BT'S	1898-1899	NONE	NONE	NONE	NONE	NONE

To find the names of the neighbouring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Registers of Baptisms 1865–1967 and Marriages 1869–1972 have been deposited at the Cheshire Record Office (no burials here) and they have been filmed by FamilySearch and are available for searching online.

Here is a list of parish registers on microfilm at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City.

Parish registers for St. James' Church, Birkenhead, 1865-1951 Cheshire Record Office call no.: P 75/1/1-8, P 75/2/1-5.

Parish Registers: St. James' Church, Birkenhead	Film
Baptisms, 1865-1944.	2104343 Items 13 - 19
Baptisms, 1944-1951. Marriages, 1869-1951.	2104344

Bishop's transcripts for St. James' Church, Birkenhead, 1898-1899 Cheshire Record Office: EDB 27

Bishops Transcripts: St. James' Church, Birkenhead	Film
Baptisms, 1898-1899.	1647365 Item 1
Another filming, 1990.	1656809 Item 2

Non-Conformist Churches

Not Known

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

Poor Law Unions

Wirral Poor Law Union, Cheshire Genealogy

Birkenhead Poor Law Union, Cheshire Genealogy

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

Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.

• England Jurisdictions 1851
• Vision of Britain

Websites

Birkenhead St James on GENUKI