Genealogy Chat

last year i went to birkenhead library to find my fathers baptism 1897 , i looked on the fiche, but the person in charge told me they had no record of cathelics, is this right, or are they stored else where.

Hi I wanted a copy of my christening cert. and I wrote to the church in question and received it back this was from 1940 Margaret

You will need to know the church your father was baptised and then write to ask that specific church for the details. Baptismal Records do not have to be deposited in CRO's or anywhere else after 1837 and Civil Registration. The records are usually still with the church where the person was baptised. Janet

thanks margaret and janet i live in scotland so im visiting the wirrall shortly will try st werburghs, i remember trying there a few years ago but vthe person in charge was not around, so will keep my fingers crossed,

Alice If you know the name of the church try ringing or writing to them first to see if they can help you. I needed my Baptismal Cert when I married and I just wrote to the church concerned who supplied me with details. You may have to prove that you are a relative? Janet

I live in the area. For one the records are classed as Cheshire and will most likely in the Cheshire County Records Office in Duke Street Cheshire-you will need to register a CARN card-2 forms of ID needed to use the archives.You also need to phone in advance to book a table for viewing etc. its hit and miss sometimes-Ive found burial records in Wallasey library to view-its only a little place-Wallasey is just down the road from Bhead.....there is an overlap between Wirral archives and cheshire records,but my guess is that they are in the Cheshire CRO.

Archives & Local Studies Service Cheshire Record Office Duke Street Chester Cheshire CH1 1RL Tel: 01244 602574 Fax: 01244 603812 Email: recordoffice(A T)cheshire.gov.uk Contact: replace the brackets and AT with the sqiggly a symbol

ive just checked Birkenhead and the cof e churches records are kept at Chester aswell.

Roman Catholic records in my experience are usually kept in the offices of the relevent diocese. Very few are at County record Offices Margaret

it could be any one of the following churches-the archivist at chester will show you the indexes and how they work. St Laurence Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception St Werberghs there are 2 other Catholic Churches but they were founded in 1900 and 1928 so the 3 above are the ones you need only.

In this case they are margaret having been there and used them personally-I located ,viewed and recorded all my catholic baptisms from St Josephs in Wallasey this way-the Church is still in operation, wallasey birkenhead,moreton and environs were classed as cheshire before 1970 and the records are all centralised-i had to spend an hour and a half travelling to view catholic records relating to a church just down the road.