Liverpool & South West Lancashire FHS - Forum

Hello,

First time poster from Australia.

Been doing some family tree tracking and looked to have hit a brick wall in the search. Joined Ancestry and Familysearch and I suspect that information I am tracking may not exist or has gone missing over the years.

Been able to successfully trace back to around 1750 (no I am not from convict stock ) but where the records have dried up is marraige records.

I am fairly confident that Liverpool is where any marriages earlier are likely to have taken place. The Fleetwood line I am following appear to have located there for all the generations up to when my gggg grandfather and mother emigrated to Australia. Is there any known losses of records prior to the 1750?

Without marriage detailed history it makes it very difficult to connect the dots.

I have been able trace back to Richard Fleetwood b. 10th Feb 1731, bap. 22nd Feb 1731 (St Nicholas, Liverpool) married Martha Forster 8th Sept 1776 (Liverpool St Peters, Church St)

From there it gets sketchy...are there any marriage registries that I should be aware of that might not have been displayed by Ancestry or Familysearch?

Thanks and regards,

Ian Fleetwood

Hi and welcome to the forum.

This site is good for checking the dates that churches were established
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LAN/Liverpool

Ancestry holds the most databases online for Liverpool, however if there are any registers that exist prior to those they will be held at the Liverpool Record Office, usually on microfilm. This is their catalogue
http://archive.liverpool.gov.uk/calmview/
The references for St Peters is 283 PET and for St Nicholas 283 NIC
This is the main archive page https://liverpool.gov.uk/libraries/arch ... y-history/

There may also be copies, probably Bishops Transcripts held at the Lancashire Record Office at Bow Lane, Preston.

You are heading toward the date when it might be useful to check outside Liverpool itself, such as Walton on the Hill which was the main Parish before that.

MaryA wrote:Hi and welcome to the forum.

This site is good for checking the dates that churches were established
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LAN/Liverpool

Ancestry holds the most databases online for Liverpool, however if there are any registers that exist prior to those they will be held at the Liverpool Record Office, usually on microfilm. This is their catalogue
http://archive.liverpool.gov.uk/calmview/
The references for St Peters is 283 PET and for St Nicholas 283 NIC
This is the main archive page https://liverpool.gov.uk/libraries/arch ... y-history/

There may also be copies, probably Bishops Transcripts held at the Lancashire Record Office at Bow Lane, Preston.

You are heading toward the date when it might be useful to check outside Liverpool itself, such as Walton on the Hill which was the main Parish before that.

Thank you Mary for your prompt and positive local knowledge reply. Gives me a couple other sources to explore.

Fascinating looking up your ancestors.

Regards,
Ian

I found Lancashire on line parish clerk site good for early years
http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/
It is a free site and really useful.
Hope this helps Lynne

Thanks very much Lynne.

I will drill down and see what I can find there.

Regards,

Ian