West Derby
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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. more ...John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72)
Archives and libraries
Local studies information is held at Liverpool library.Cemeteries
- St Mary the Virgin, Almond's Green, Church of England
- St Oswald, King & Martyr, St Oswald's St, Roman Catholic, Old Swan
Census
Details about the census records, and indexes for West Derby.Church History
Church Records
- 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
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Civil Registration
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.