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Directories

Just as we have the yellow pages today, the Victorians had trade directories. If you know your ancestor’s trade, for example a carpenter or a shoemaker, you can locate him in the trade section or you can find him alphabetically in the residential section.

The directories are useful for finding an address by which to locate the family in the Census Returns. At Huyton Library we hold the Gore’s/Kelly’s directories for Liverpool from 1766-1970. However these are not complete and there are gaps. They are in printed volumes or on microfilm.

Cemetery Records:

St Thomas, Park Lane Index to graves 1768-1770 MF 84

• Order books 1825-1846

Necropolis Order books, 1846-1875 MF 85

• Order books 1876-1898 MF 86
• Burials 1825-1898 MF 86-MF 89
• Day Book 1825-1879 MF 89-MF 90

Necropolis, St James’ Cemetery Graves Reg. 1825-1898 MF 91

• Burial Index W-Z 1829-1934
• Day Book 1879-1898 MF 92
• Bur 1829-1936 MF 92-MF 96
• Interments 1829-1884 MF 96-MF 97
• Purchase Register 1829-1921 MF 98
• Grave Survey 1866
• Epitaphs, no.1-765
• Epitaphs, no.766-1612 MF 99
• Index to Epitaphs (Surname)
• Grave Survey by section
• Grave Survey pre 1926 MF 100
• MI’s removed 1937, 1939
• Inventory graves to 1926
• Grave owners 1933

St Mary’s Cemetery Burials 1837-1846

Electoral Roles

Old electoral rolls are stored within the archives at Kirkby library. The following years can be consulted:

• Miscellaneous electoral wards for Huyton, Knowsley, Prescot and Whiston 1938 (few remaining)
• Huyton 1966-1974
• Kirkby 1959-1972 (1966 missing)
• Prescot 1939
• Knowsley Borough 1974 to present covering Cantril Farm, Stockbridge Village, Cronton, Halewood, Huyton, Kirkby, Knowsley Village, Prescot, Tarbock, Whiston.