Cemetery Records
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Wirral Archives Service Cemetery records at Wirral Archives Service This leaflet gives an introduction to the records Wirral Archives Service Opening hours of the municipal cemeteries of Wirral, held on Monday - Friday, 9.30 - 16.30 Cemetery records microfilm by Wirral Archives Service. These Contact Details Saturday, 10.00 - 13.00 A guide to cemetery records records contain information about where Wirral Archives Service Cheshire Lines building at Wirral Archives Service individuals are buried, as well as recording Canning Street Please note that access to the Service brief personal details. Birkenhead is via Shore Road. 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Published 2008 C 124FEB08JS Brief History Cemetery records at Wirral Grange Cemetery Until the population growth of the Archives Service (Hoylake and West Kirby UDC) nineteenth century all burials in Wirral municipal cemeteries are Burial registers: England took place in parish managed from Landican Cemetery All sections (1923-1974) churchyards, and were recorded in Office, which is also used to store all church burial registers (parish cemetery records. Many of these Landican Cemetery, Birkenhead registers for Wirral are held at records have been microfilmed and Burial registers: Cheshire Record Office). Wirral Archives Service holds a set of Church of England (1934-1962) these microfilms for public use. Roman Catholic (1935-1962) From the 1820s public cemeteries Nonconformist (1934-1963) began to be established, originally as These microfilms comprise two commercial ventures. The first in different types of record: Burial Plymyard Cemetery, Eastham England was the Necropolis in Registers and Grave Registers. (Bebington Borough) Liverpool, which opened in 1825. Burial registers: The growth in the population of Burial Registers are the daily record All sections (1940-1964) Birkenhead led to the opening of the of burials in the order that they took first municipal cemetery in Wirral, place. To locate an individual burial Grave Registers are organised by List of Municipal Cemetery Grave registers: Records Held Elsewhere Flaybrick Cemetery (originally you will need to know an section of cemetery and grave Records All sections (1940-1990) Birkenhead Reference Library also Birkenhead Cemetery), in 1864. approximate date of death as there number and are used to record who Roman Catholic (1950-1990) holds municipal cemetery records on are no surname indexes for these is buried in each grave. Again, there Bebington Cemetery (Town Lane) microfilm as well as microform registers. Separate burial registers are no surname indexes for these Burial registers: Wallasey Cemetery (Rake Lane) copies of burial registers for a were kept for each religious registers and only private graves Church of England (1868-1957) Burial registers: number of Wirral parishes. The denomination, i.e. Church of were recorded in the grave registers. Roman Catholic (1868-1960) Church of England (1883-1973) address is: England, Roman Catholic and Nonconformist (1868-1969) Roman Catholic (1884-1960) Nonconformist. The following details can be found Nonconformist & General (1883-1959) Birkenhead Reference Library in grave registers: Eastham Cemetery (St Mary's Church) Borough Road, Birkenhead The following details can be found • Name Burial registers: Wirral CH41 2XB in burial registers: • Age All sections (1889-1965) Tel: 0151 652 6106 ext. 7 • Date of burial • Date of burial for each person [email protected] Other municipal cemeteries followed: • Age interred in the grave Flaybrick Cemetery, Birkenhead Bebington Cemetery (or Town Lane • Rank or profession • Depth of each burial Burial registers: Landican Cemetery Office holds the Cemetery) in 1868, Wallasey • Abode Church of England (1864-1960) records that have not been Cemetery (or Rake Lane Cemetery) in • Mode of burial (i.e. public or (The original Grave Registers hold Roman Catholic (1864-1960) microfilmed and are therefore not 1883, and Grange Cemetery in 1923. private grave) details of the person who initially Nonconformist & General (1863-1959) listed in this leaflet. You may also Frankby Cemetery and Plymyard • Grave number purchased the plot: these details do wish to contact them for general Cemetery both opened in 1940. • By whom the ceremony was not appear on the microfilms in Grave registers: enquiries concerning the municipal performed order to protect personal privacy.) All sections (1863-1990) cemeteries of Wirral. The address is: Landican Cemetery was opened in 1934. This was also the first Wirral Archives Service holds only Frankby Cemetery (Wallasey Corporation) Landican Cemetery Office crematorium for Wirral and, at the Grave Registers for Flaybrick and Burial registers: Arrowe Park Road, Birkenhead present time, is the main cemetery Plymyard cemeteries. Please contact Church of England (1940-1960) Wirral CH49 5LW for Wirral. Landican Cemetery Office for other Roman Catholic (1940-1960) Tel: 0151 677 2361 grave registers and records of cremations..