WEST DERBY VITAL STATISTICS
Eventually, this site will contain information from all the available parish registers from the
registration district of West Derby, Lancashire (Liverpool area). Currently, it covers the years
between 1798 and 1885. This is not a database, merely a simple text file. If you find a name you are
researching in the list below, click on it to see what information is available. Please let me know
if you find an error for which you have documentation, or if you have information you would like to
have added to the site.
I've made no attempt to reconcile surname spelling, so if you don't see the name you are researching,
try alternate spellings (for example, Orendale for Arundell, Backhouse for Backus, etc.). In addition,
it's important to be aware that it is not possible in all cases to associate a set of parents with
a group of children, only with the specific child that appeared in the register for that entry. There
could well be two John and Mary Smiths having children with the same names in the same parish during
the same years (as any reasonably experienced family historian has found, to their dismay!) When there
appears to be any doubt whether a particular child should be listed with one set of siblings or
another, that will be stated in the information for that child.
While the page is under construction, there may be names in the list below for which the pertinent
details have not yet been entered. Please don't email me with complaints if that happens. Be
patient: in another day or so, the information will be available.
ABRAM, Henry and Catherine
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Birth | William | Son | 30 Aug 1872 |
| Christening | | | 13 Oct 1872 |
| Birth | Kate | Daughter | 17 Apr 1874 |
| Christening | | | 17 May 1874 |
ABRAM, Elizabeth
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Birth | Jane | Daughter | 3 Nov 1875 |
| Christening | | | 28 Nov 1875 |
ADAMS, George and Agnes
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | George | Son | 26 Jul 1835 |
ALLEN, Peter and Sarah
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | Margaret | Daughter | 12 Jun 1836 |
| Christening | Jane | Daughter | 1 Oct 1837 |
| Christening | Elizabeth | Daughter | 28 Apr 1839 |
ALLEN, Joseph and Martha
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | Joseph | Son | 24 May 1846 |
ALMOND, Thomas and Ann
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | Elizabeth | Daughter | 10 May 1818 |
| Christening | Edmund | Son | 3 Sep 1820 |
| Christening | Margaret | Daughter | 16 Feb 1823 |
| Christening | Ellen | Daughter | 3 Jul 1825 |
| Christening | Thomas | Son | 20 Jul 1828 |
| Christening | George | Son | 18 Mar 1832 |
| Christening | John | Son | 1 Jun 1834 |
ALMOND, John and Margaret
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | Ann | Daughter | 18 Nov 1855 |
| Christening | Thomas | Son | 12 Apr 1857 |
| Christening | Henry | Son | 29 May 1859 |
| Christening | John Edmund | Son | 29 Dec 1861 |
ASHCROFT, Robert and Margaret
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | William | Son | 23 Oct 1814 |
| Christening | Robert | Son | 2 May 1819 |
ASHCROFT, Thomas and Jane
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | William | Son | 13 Jun 1824 |
| Birth | Henry | Son | 17 Oct 1825 |
| Christening | | | 18 Nov 1825 |
| Christening | Robert | Son | 14 Oct 1827 |
| Christening | Elizabeth | Daughter | 22 Nov 1829 |
| Christening | William | Son | 8 Apr 1832 |
| Christening | Jane | Daughter | 22 Jun 1834 |
| Death/Burial | | | 28 Dec 1834 |
| Christening | Jane | Daughter | 18 Sep 1836 |
ASHCROFT, Robert and Elizabeth
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | Thomas | Son | 7 Oct 1860 |
| Christening | Henry | Son | 10 Nov 1861 |
| Christening | Catherine | Daughter | 9 Aug 1863 |
ASHCROFT, William and Margaret
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | Mary | Daughter | 8 Dec 1861 |
| Christening | Jane | Daughter | 1 Feb 1863 |
| Christening | Margaret | Daughter | 25 Nov 1866 |
| Christening | Thomas | Son | 11 Apr 1869 |
ASHCROFT, Henry and Elizabeth
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | Jane | Daughter | 8 Jul 1871 |
| Christening | Mary | Daughter | 1 Sep 1872 |
| Birth | Lizzie | Daughter | 31 Jan 1875 |
| Christening | | | 28 Feb 1875 |
ASHLEY, Joseph and Elizabeth
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | Eleanor | Daughter | 8 Apr 1827 |
ASHTON, Thomas and Ann
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | John | Son | 17 May 1836 |
ASHTON, Ann
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | Edmund | Son | 27 Oct 1839 |
ASHTON, Anne
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | Alice | Daughter | 4 Apr 1847 |
ASHTON, Catherine
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | Richard | Son | 2 Mar 1851 |
| Christening | John | Son | 25 Mar 1855 |
ASHTON, Edward Richard and Harriet
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | Agnes Ann | Daughter | 3 Apr 1855 |
| Christening | Edward | Son | 26 Nov 1856 |
| Christening | William | Son | 29 Nov 1860 |
| Christening | Richard | Son | 29 Nov 1860 |
| Christening | Lucy Harriet | Daughter | 29 Oct 1863 |
| Christening | Elizabeth Jane | Daughter | 29 Oct 1863 |
ASPINWALL, Thomas and Margery
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | Ann | Daughter | 6 Apr 1828 |
| Birth | Alice | Daughter | 17 Jun 1829 |
| Christening | | | 19 Jul 1829 |
ASPINWALL, Peter and Jane
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | Margaret | Daughter | 3 Aug 1834 |
| Christening | William | Son | 7 Jan 1838 |
ASPINWALL, Edward and Elizabeth
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | Thomas | Son | 10 Oct 1847 |
ASPINWALL, William and Lydia
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | William | Son | 20 Sep 1857 |
| Christening | Henry | Son | 25 Dec 1859 |
| Christening | Mary Alice | Daughter | 16 Nov 1862 |
| Christening | Mary Alice | Daughter | 5 Mar 1865 |
| Christening | Peter | Son | 14 Oct 1866 |
| Christening | Lydia | Daughter | 2 Jun 1867 |
| Christening | Ruth | Daughter | 20 Sep 1868 |
| Death/Burial | | | 27 Dec 1870 |
ASTALL, Hugh and Mary
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | James | Son | 22 Apr 1832 |
ATCHERLEY, Samuel and Helen
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Birth | Amy Elizabeth | Daughter | 5 May 1875 |
| Christening | | | 13 Jun 1875 |
| Death/Burial | | | 29 Dec 1876 |
ATHERTON, Thomas and Hannah
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | Elizabeth | Daughter | 31 Oct 1813 |
ATHERTON, John and Tryphena
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | Elizabeth | Daughter | 16 Jun 1836 |
ATHERTON, Mary
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | Jane | Daughter | 5 May 1861 |
BACKHOUSE, Richard and Mary
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | Joseph | Son | 19 Apr 1840 |
BACKLADY, Henry and Jane
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | Mary | Daughter | 5 Mar 1815 |
BAGNALL, Thomas and Mary
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Birth | John | Son | 17 Nov 1872 |
| Christening | | | 15 Dec 1872 |
BALDWIN, Mary
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | Martha | Daughter | 22 Jun 1834 |
BALL, Robert and Sarah
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | Margaret | Daughter | 18 Jul 1813 |
| Christening | Jane | Daughter | 18 Jul 1813 |
| Christening | Ann | Daughter | 23 Apr 1815 |
BALL, Thomas and Mary
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | John | Son | 17 Jul 1814 |
| Christening | Jane | Daughter | 16 Jun 1816 |
| Christening | Robert | Son | 16 April 1820 |
| Christening | Elizabeth | Daughter | 1 Dec 1822 |
| Christening | Thomas | Son | 8 May 1825 |
| Christening | James | Son | 8 May 1825 |
| Christening | Mary | Daughter | 4 May 1829 |
| Birth | Ann | Daughter | 6 Jun 1830 |
| Christening | | | 26 Dec 1830 |
| Christening | Margaret | Daughter | 28 Jul 1833 |
BALL, John and Elizabeth
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | Elizabeth | Daughter | 1 Dec 1822 |
BALL, Thomas and Margaret
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | William | Son | 3 May 1818 |
| Christening | Thomas | Son | 5 Mar 1820 |
BALL, Thomas and Margaret (obviously not the same Thomas and Margaret as above!)
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | Jane | Daughter | 9 Nov 1851 |
| Christening | James | Son | 24 Oct 1852 |
| Christening | Alice | Daughter | 15 Oct 1854 |
| Christening | Thomas | Son | 24 Jan 1855 |
| Christening | Mary | Daughter | 18 May 1856 |
| Christening | Margaret | Daughter | 2 Jun 1858 |
| Christening | John | Son | 6 May 1860 |
| Christening | Robert | Son | 18 Jan 1864 |
BALL, John and Margaret
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | William | Son | 19 Oct 1834 |
| Christening | Ann | Daughter | 2 Jul 1837 |
| Christening | Sarah | Daughter | 2 Jul 1837 |
| Christening | Ellen | Daughter | 24 May 1840 |
| Christening | Margaret | Daughter | 26 Sep 1841 |
| Christening | Mary | Daughter | 9 Jun 1844 |
| Christening | Ellen | Daughter | 19 Nov 1845 |
| Christening | Thomas | Son | 7 Jun 1846 |
BALL, John and Alice
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | Ellen | Daughter | 12 Jun 1842 |
| Christening | Ann | Daughter | 6 Oct 1844 |
| Christening | Ellen | Daughter | 8 Apr 1849 |
| Christening | Richard | Son | 8 Apr 1849 |
BALL, James and Alice
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | James | Son | 14 May 1854 |
BALL, Robert and Mary
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | Thomas | Son | 4 Aug 1850 |
| Christening | John | Son | 20 Jun 1852 |
| Christening | Joshua | Son | 15 Feb 1854 |
| Christening | Robert | Son | 10 Feb 1856 |
| Christening | Alice | Daughter | 18 Feb 1858 |
| Christening | James | Son | 29 Apr 1860 |
| Christening | Robert | Son | 26 Jan 1862 |
| Christening | William | Son | 17 Jan 1864 |
| Christening | Edward | Son | 7 Jul 1867 |
BALL, Robert and Ellen
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | Elizabeth | Daughter | 19 Jun 1859 |
| Christening | Sarah Grace | Daughter | 23 Sep 1860 |
| Christening | Ellen | Daughter | 20 Oct 1861 |
BALL, Robert and Helen (possibly the same as Robert and Ellen above)
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | William Arthur | Son | 19 Apr 1863 |
BALL, James and Ellen
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | Joseph | Son | 7 Jul 1861 |
| Christening | Alice | Daughter | 26 Jul 1863 |
| Christening | Mary Ellen | Daughter | 2 Apr 1865
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| Christening | Elizabeth | Daughter | 2 Jun 1867 |
| Christening | Jane | Daughter | 28 Mar 1869 |
| Christening | Esther | Daughter | 4 Jun 1871 |
| Birth | Emily | Daughter | 3 Sep 1873 |
| Christening | | | 25 Dec 1873 |
BALL, Richard and Sarah
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | Annie | Daughter | 19 Dec 1869 |
| Christening | John | Son | 19 May 1872 |
| Birth | Jane | Daughter | 27 Sep 1875 |
| Christening | | | 12 Dec 1875 |
BALL, William and Martha
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | John | Son | 26 Jan 1872 |
| Birth | Ellen | Daughter | 9 Jun 1875 |
| Christening | | | 4 Jul 1875 |
BALSHAW, Ann
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | William | Son | 13 Sep 1835 |
BALSHAW, William and Elizabeth
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | Henry | Son | 2 Oct 1844 |
BALSHAW, James and Ann
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | Grace | Daughter | 23 Mar 1856 |
| Christening | Ann | Daughter | 26 Aug 1860 |
BAMFORD, William and Mary
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | Henry Patton | Son | 23 May 1847 |
| Christening | Maud Mary | Daughter | 27 May 1849 |
| Christening | Charles | Son | 21 Sep 1851 |
BANKS, Peter and Margaret
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | John | Son | 1 Jun 1823 |
| Christening | William | Son | 15 May 1825 |
| Christening | Peter | Son | 19 Nov 1826 |
| Christening | James | Son | 21 Sep 1828 |
| Christening | Robert | Son | 30 Nov 1830 |
| Christening | Henry | Son | 4 Mar 1832 |
| Christening | Margaret | Daughter | 22 Dec 1833 |
| Christening | Mary | Daughter | 16 Aug 1835 |
BANKS, John and Ann
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | Ellen | Daughter | 12 Feb 1826 |
| Christening | Margaret | Daughter | 8 Nov 1829 |
BANKS, John and Ann (possibly the same as the above John and Ann)
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Birth | Thomas | Son | 5 Feb 1838 |
| Christening | | | 25 Feb 1838 |
BANKS, John and Jane
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | James | Son | 12 Jun 1853 |
BANKS, William and Margaret
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | Peter | Son | 4 Nov 1849 |
| Christening | William | Son | 25 Apr 1853 |
| Christening | John | Son | 7 Jan 1855 |
BANKS, William and Ann
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | Ann | Daughter | 8 Jan 1843 |
BANKS, Ann
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | Ann | Daughter | 19 Jan 1851 |
BANKS, Ann (possibly the same as above)
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | William | Son | 1 Dec 1861 |
BANKS, Robert and Ellen
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | William | Son | 26 Oct 1862 |
| Christening | John | Son | 15 May 1864 |
| Christening | Mary | Daughter | 22 Apr 1866 |
| Christening | William | Son | 26 Jul 1868 |
| Christening | Robert | Son | 24 Jul 1870 |
| Birth | Anne Elizabeth | Daughter | 9 Sep 1872 |
| Christening | | | 27 Oct 1872 |
| Birth | Lydia | Daughter | 1 Jan 1875 |
| Christening | | | 28 Feb 1875 |
BARBER, William and Alice
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | Alice | Daughter | 6 Jul 1862 |
BARKER, Thomas Stoppart and Frances
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | Thomas Stoppart | Son | 31 May 1840 |
BARLOW, John and Margaret
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | Mary | Daughter | 24 Dec 1826 |
| Christening | Catherine Elizabeth | Daughter | 20 Apr 1828 |
| Christening | John Orrell | Son | 25 Apr 1830 |
| Christening | Jane | Daughter | 25 Sep 1831 |
| Christening | Margaret | Daughter | 25 Sep 1831 |
BARLOW, Robert and Ellen
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | John | Son | 10 Aug 1828 |
BARNES, Robert and Margaret
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | Richard | Son | 10 Dec 1854 |
BARNES, William and Jane
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Birth | Robert | Son | 1 May 1875 |
| Christening | | | 30 May 1875 |
BARRETT, John Chalk and Henrietta
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | John Chalk | Son | 9 Aug 1869 |
| Christening | Violet Hilda | Daughter | 4 Aug 1870 |
BARTON, William and Margaret
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Birth | Esther | Daughter | 10 Sep 1826 |
| Christening | | | 1 Oct 1826 |
| Birth | Robert | Son | 17 Aug 1829 |
| Christening | | | 7 Sep 1829 |
BARTON, Roger and Alice
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | Alice | Daughter | 23 Mar 1836 |
| Christening | Jane | Daughter | 23 Mar 1836 |
| Christening | Emily | Daughter | 31 Mar 1839 |
BATE, Thomas and Ann
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | Jane Ann | Daughter | 26 Dec 1869 |
BENSON, Thomas and Mary
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | Henry | Son | 16 Oct 1864 |
BERRY, Richard and Dorothy
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | Henry | Son | 26 Feb 1844 |
BERRY, James and Margery
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | Elizabeth | Daughter | 1 Feb 1863 |
BIRCH, Charles and Mary
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | John | Son | 29 Jun 1817 |
BIRCH, James and Elisabeth
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | Joseph | Son | 27 Jun 1869 |
| Christening | Ada | Daughter | 19 Feb 1871 |
| Birth | Annie | Daughter | 16 Jun 1873 |
| Christening | | | 3 Aug 1873 |
| Birth | Mary | Daughter | 6 Jun 1875 |
| Christening | | | 4 Jul 1875 |
BLACKBURN, Peter Blackburn and Jane (Spencer)
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | Margaret | Daughter | 23 Dec 1827 |
| Christening | John | Son | 6 Jun 1830 |
| Christening | Mary | Daughter | 9 Sep 1832 |
| Christening | Peter | Son | 25 May 1834 |
BLACKBURN, Robert Blackburn and Ellen (Darwin)
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | Peter | Son | 4 Feb 1838 |
| Christening | Robert | Son | 19 Jan 1840 |
| Christening | Alice | Daughter | 24 Jan 1841 |
| Christening | Robert | Son | 20 Feb 1842 |
| Christening | Margaret | Daughter | 9 Apr 1843 |
| Christening | Ellen | Daughter | 26 Oct 1845 |
| Christening | Mary | Daughter | 8 Aug 1847 |
| Christening | Joseph | Son | 6 Aug 1848 |
| Christening | Ann | Daughter | 27 Oct 1850 |
BLUNDELL, William and Elizabeth
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | William | Son | 11 May 1823 |
| Christening | Ann | Daughter | 23 Jul 1826 |
| Christening | Henry | Son | 25 Aug 1833 |
BLUNDELL, John and Elizabeth
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Birth | Margaret | Daughter | 14 Oct 1828 |
| Christening | | | 2 Nov 1828 |
| Christening | Thomas | Son | 22 Sep 1833 |
| Christening | Ellen | Daughter | 14 Feb 1836 |
BLUNDELL, Margery
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | William | Son | 16 Mar 1845 |
BLUNDELL, John and Jane
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | Mary | Daughter | 4 Apr 1847 |
| Christening | Elizabeth | Daughter | 17 Jun 1849 |
| Christening | Henry | Son | 11 May 1851 |
| Christening | William | Son | 17 Jun 1855 |
BLUNDELL, Thomas and Margaret
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | John | Son | 17 Jun 1860 |
BLUNDELL, Thomas and Margaret (same as above??)
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Christening | Elizabeth | Daughter | 11 Jul 1869 |
| Birth | Thomas Richard | Son | 6 Mar 1874 |
| Christening | | | 1 Apr 1874 |
BOLTON, James and Ellen
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | John | Son | 11 Apr 1862 |
BOLTON, Edmond and Elizabeth
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | John | Son | 23 Dec 1860 |
| Christening | Edmund | Son | 20 Jul 1862 |
| Christening | Alice | Daughter | 11 Dec 1864 |
| Christening | Mary | Daughter | 24 Aug 1866 |
BOLTON, Edmond and Elizabeth (possibly the same as above)
| Parish | Event | Name(s) | Relationship | Date |
| Maghull | Christening | Mary | Daughter | 30 Jul 1871 |