Liverpool & South West Lancashire FHS - Forum

Update .... I spent a very useful hour or so in Liverpool Library today looking through the Returns of Papists 1767 for the Formby and Ainsdale areas. They have been removed from the Picton Library shelves to the Achives on the third floor. There is also a copy of the 1705 return there as well. They...

Blue Thanks Blue. I will take a trip over in the New Year. ............. Hilary Thank you for this explanation Hilary and for the reference to the information about Formby on The British History Online site. An interesting read. It would seem then that Roman Catholic Baptisms would be at the old Ca...

Thanks Blue. I did think it might be something to do with the Papist Returns but I thought these lists were more extensive each year as they included all family members with address and occupations. There is I understand, a copy of the 1767 list for Lancashire in the Picton Library ...or was until t...

I would welcome help understanding an entry in the Parish Register for St Peter's Church Formby. I have found an entry for the christening of an ancestor, James Wright, the son of James Wright and Mary Johnson for 26 May 1788 in the Parish Register. It is one of a group of christenings entered at th...

Thank you for the suggestions. I will take a look at the Anfield records. The infant was only 6 days old so perhaps there is no record. The comment about infant deaths is very helpful and something I had not thought about. It would have been nice to have known where the child was buried. The family ...

Thank you Val and Blue.

I was not sure which would have been their local cemetary ... Caulfield Road West Derby ... but looked in West Derby Parochial, Everton and Kirkdale cemetary records at the Record Office.

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Mike

Thanks. I have checked through these records without any success ... I suppose it is possible I might have missed it.

Are these records thought to be complete ?

Mike

Margaret Dorothy Shennan 1905 - 1905 I have found that my maternal Grandfather would have had a sister Margaret Dorothy Shennan but she died as a young infant. I have her death certificate indicating that she died at home , 81 Caulfeld Street, West Derby on 22 January 1905 but I have been unable to ...

Hi

Thanks for this information, much appreciated

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Mike

Would anyone have any infomation as to were the burial records can be found to find the location of a particlaur grave in Our Ladies RC Church Yard Formby Village. We are trying to locate the grave of Thomas Lee (B abt 1898 D 1954)

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Mike