Lancashire Probate Jurisdictions, Parishes beginning with L

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Liverpool is one of the largest (population-wise) centres in the whole of England. It's comprised of several ancient (pre-1837) parishes and numerous chapelries. During the height of the Industiral Revolution, numerous additional smaller churches called chapelries were created to handle the load of burgeoning populations. These chapelries kept church registers many of which are ancient in origin.

Below is a comprehensive list of parishes and chapelries associated with Greater Liverpool by 1851. By far the vast majority of the probate records and church registers (of which many are now transcribed and online) for Liverpool are available at the Lancashire Record Office in Preston. These are also microfilmed and available at The FamilySearch Library and its 4,700 satellite FamilySearch Centers worldwide. To determine which probate courts held jurisdiction over the Greater Liverpool region, return to the "Liverpool" section of the Lancashire Probate Jurisdictions, Parishes I through L page.

Recognizing that all authoritative treatises on Lancashire civil parishes differ--some much more than others--in their data regarding the township chapelries, several key reference publications have been used here to compile a more comprehensive list of Liverpool parishes and all its associated chapelries:

Also visit the following townships and note their respective chapelries which are also close in proximity to central Liverpool. Liverpool therefore comprised the following townships and their chapelries, which see treatises for each:

Edgehill St Mary - 1813

Everton Christ Church, Great Homer St. - 1799

Everton St George - 1814

Formby St Peters - 1620

Kirkby St Chad - 1610

Kirkdale St Mary - 1836

Stanley - a chapelry and part of West Derby--both chapelries in Walton-on-the-Hill Parish

Toxteth Park St James - 1775

Toxteth Park St Clement - 1841

Toxteth Park St Michael in the Hamlet - 1815 (extra parochial)

Walton-on-the-Hill St Jude - 1832

West Derby St Mary the Virgin - 1688 West Derby St Jude's - 1832]