These Liverpool family history online records include parish records, births, marriages, deaths, societies, burials, cemeteries and much more.
Archives
BMDs & Parish Records
- Liverpool Online Parish Clerks
- Liverpool Parish Congregational Records
Confirmation records as well as baptisms, marriages, and burials.
- Liverpool Parish Registers (St. Nicholas's Church)
- Kirkdale, St. Mary's Marriages
A list that contains all the names of the brides and grooms as filmed by the LDS, on film #1545938.
- Catholic Parish Registers of Liverpool 1741–1773
View the registers in an online book that you can browse or search.
- Liverpool as a Trading Port Project
Has over 1.3 million life-event records of Liverpool residents from the years 1704–1860.
Cemeteries & Graves
- Find a Grave
Records and headstones from 37 Liverpool cemeteries.
- Allerton Cemetery
Burial records and memorial inscriptions. The cemetery opened in 1909.
- St James' Cemetery Burials Liverpool
Has almost 15,000 burial records in its online database. Search by name, surname, date of birth and date of death.
- St. Anthony's RC Church 1847
An archived index of information on over 2,300 individual burials.
Census Records
- Liverpool Census 1801
Discover the names of over 13,000 people.
- Census 1841–1921
Search the census records from 1841–1921, plus the 1939 Register, with over 630,000 Liverpool residents, all at once.
- FreeCen
Has a good, but not complete, selection of free records to search and view.
Historical Directories
Liverpool directories contain the names, addresses and trades of the city's business people. The more recent ones cover residents also.
Local History
- Memorials of Liverpool
A history of Liverpool from its earliest times to the reign of Queen Victoria; an online book printed in 1875.
- Liverpool Place Names
The meanings of Liverpool place names and some surrounding areas, including the Wirral. An online book printed in 1898.
- Liverpool Privateers
A history of privateers, ships, crews and their role in the slave trade. There is also an index of names.
Societies & Forums
- Liverpool & SW Lancashire FHS
The local family history society.
- Liverpool Genealogy Forum
Covers queries within the area of Lancashire between the Ribble and the Mersey, including Liverpool, Southport, Warrington, Skelmersdale, Leigh and Widnes.
Workhouse Records
- Liverpool Workhouse Registers
Search over 2.2 million registers from the following Liverpool workhouses: Fazakerley Cottage Homes, Kirkdale Industrial Schools, Mill Road Hospital (West Derby Union Workhouse), Olive Mount Children's Home, Sefton General Hospital (Toxteth Park Workhouse), Walton Workhouse, and West Derby Union.
- Home for the Aged Poor
Names extracted from the 1891 census.
- West Derby Union Workhouse
Details of persons from 1891 who were transferred to the "Test House".
Additional Records
- Old Mersey Times
Liverpool and Merseyside history and people from old transcribed newspapers, with births, deaths, marriages, criminals, divorce, emigration, memorial inscriptions and much more.
- Liverpool Pals 1914–1918
- Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Historical record from 1898–1920 including the staff, a who's who and some photos.
- School Admission Registers 1870–1914
Search more than 335,000 records of schools around Liverpool.
- Emigrants to America 1697–1707
A list of people who emigrated to America from Liverpool.