West Derby
DERBY (West), a village, a parish, a sub-district, a district, and a hundred in Lancashire. The village stands 2 miles N by W of Broad-Green r.
station, and 4 ENE of Liverpool post office; has a post office under Liverpool; and had a castle before the Conquest. The parish includes also
Kensington, Stanley, Knotty-Ash, and other hamlets, and part of the borough and suburbs of Liverpool; contains a botanic garden, a zoological garden,
a lunatic asylum, and a large industrial school; and was only a chapelry of Walton-on-the-Hill till 1847. Acres, 6,123. Rated property, £232,783.
Pop. in 1841, 16,864; in 1861, 52,694. Houses, 9,239. Pop. of the portion within Liverpool borough, in 1841. 9,760: in 1861, 36,527. Houses,
6,378. The property is much subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chester. Value, £1,300. Patron, the Rev. J. Stewart. The
vicarages of Fairfield and St. Catherine, and the p. curacies of Stanley, Knotty-Ash, St. James, St. Jude, St. Stephen, and St. Mary are separate
benefices. Value of St. Catherine, £230; of St. Ann, £78; of St. Jude and St. Mary, each £300; of St. Stephen, £300;
of the others, not reported. Patrons of Fairfield, the Bushby family; of St. Catherine, St. John, St. Jude, and St. Stephen, Trustees; of Stanley, the
Rev. T. Garner; of St. James, Mrs. Reade; of St. Mary, J. Stewart, Esq.
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John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72)
Local studies information is held at
Liverpool library.
Details about the census records, and indexes for West Derby.
- Cottenham St, Baptist, Kensington
- Jubilee Drive, Baptist, Kensington
- Parthenon Drive, Baptist, Norris Green
- New Rd, Baptist, Tuebrook
- St Andrew, Queen's Drive, Church of England, Clubmoor
- Holy Spirit, Dovecot Avenue, Church of England, Dovecot
- Christ Church, Kensington, Church of England, Edge Hill
- St John the Divine, Holly Rd, Church of England, Fairfield
- St Philip, Sheil Rd, Church of England, Fairfield
- Christ Church, Sedgemoor Rd, Church of England, Norris Green
- St Christopher, Broad Lane, Church of England, Norris Green
- All Saints, Broadgreen Rd, Old Swan, Church of England, Stoneycroft
- St Paul, Derby Lane, Church of England, Stoneycroft
- St John the Baptist, West Derby Rd, Church of England, Tuebrook
- St David, King's Drive, Church of England
- St James, Mill Lane, Church of England
- St Jude, Church of England
- St Luke, Princess Drive, Church of England
- St Mary the Virgin, Almond's Green, Church of England
- The Good Shepherd, Carr Lane, Church of England
- Beech Street, Presbyterian, Fairfield
- Green Lane, Presbyterian, Stoneycroft
- Rankin Memorial, Broad Lane, Presbyterian
- Jubilee Drive, Primitive Methodist, Kensington
- Primitive Methodist, Tuebrook
- St Sebastian, Lockerby Rd, Roman Catholic, Fairfield
- St Swithin, Gillmoss Lane, Roman Catholic, Gillmoss
- St Oswald, King & Martyr, St Oswald's St, Roman Catholic, Old Swan
- St Cecilia, Green Lane, Roman Catholic, Stoneycroft
- St Matthew, Queens Drive, Roman Catholic
- St Paul, Town Row, Roman Catholic
- St Teresa of the Child Jesus, Utting Avenue East, Roman Catholic
- Welsh Congregational, Kensington
- Laurel St, Wesleyan Methodist, Fairfield
- St Paul, Wesleyan Methodist, Stoneycroft
- Wesleyan Methodist, Tuebrook
- Crosby Green, Wesleyan Methodist
You can also perform a more selective search for
churches in the West Derby area
that are recorded in the GENUKI church database. This will also help
identify churches in nearby townships and/or parishes. You also have the option to see the
location
of the churches marked marked on a map.
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The Register Office covering the West Derby area is
Liverpool.
In registration districts for BMDs and censuses, the name Liverpool is
applicable only to an area bounded by the river Mersey, Boundary Road, Great
Homer St. and Upper Parliament street. All the rest of Liverpool is West
Derby which is the name of the ancient Hundred ,An area which covered most
of SW Lancs. It is also the name of a "village" now a suburb of Liverpool.
As the population grew parishes were split into smaller units. The same
happened with registration districts so that Toxteth Park etc were split
from West Derby.
The West Derby Union was established in 1837 for civil registration.
Not included in the West Derby Union was Liverpool to the west, and
Prescot to the east.
Forming that union were the following villages or townships.West Derby;
Bootle; Everton; Fazakerley; Kirkby; Kirkdale; Walton on the Hill; Aintree;
Great Crosby; Little Crosby; Inch Blundell; Litherland; Lunt; Netherland;
Orrell and Ford; Sephton; Thornton; Toxteth Park; Childwall; Allerton;
Garston; Wavertree; and Croxteth Park.
Ask for the gazetteer for a calculation of the distance from West Derby to another place.
In 1835 West Derby was a township in the parish of
Walton on the Hill.
West Derby was one of the
eight hundreds of Lancashire, fifteen townships came under its
durisdiction and its boundaries reached as far west as Moss St,
Islington. Over the centuries it was in turn inhabited by the Danes,
Anglo-Saxons, and until 13thC. stood in a forest 11 miles long/2 miles
wide. It has had a Saxon fort, a Norman Fort and now a small walled
garden marks the site. King John transferred the Wapentake court
from West Derby, when he granted the Charter to L,pool in 1207. (the
forerunner of the
County Court today). Ecclesiastically West Derby was part of Walton
Parish for many years, but became independent in 1848. The present
parish church built 1853/4 (designed by Gilbert G Scott, replaced the
ancient chapel of St Mary the Virgin.
View maps of West Derby and places within its boundaries.
The Workhouse site
has an interesting description of
West Derby
workhouse.
For probate purposes prior to 1858, West Derby was in the Archdeaconry of Chester, in the Diocese of Chester.
The original Lancashire wills for the Archdeaconry of Chester are held at the
Lancashire Record Office.
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