Genealogy Chat

anybody know what denomination St Marys Church Edmund Street Liverpool is or was?.Or if it is still there? Many thanks Kathleen oops found it its R C but still like to know if its still there

Hi,Kathleen My g.g.grandparents married there in 1882,but I haven't been able to find anything on it,despite google searches e.t.c. I was begining to think it didn't exsist! Glad you've proved otherwise!

Thanks Dianne, Like you I have tried a few searches and cant find it ,will have to keep looking Kathleen

Thanks a lot Jean wonder if its still there,will try to find out Regards Kathleen

thank you so much Jean,dont know why but I cant get on to L/Pool R C diocese site. Oh why didnt I start this research while I still lived in Liverpool Regards Kathleen ps ever heard of St Simons

Hi I've had a search around I can't find any records for a St Mary's on Edmund St but there was a St Mary's RC on Highfield St, Liverpool its records are held at Liverpool Records Office. George

thanks Jean really appreciate your help,as regards st Simons never heard of it untill an hour ago apparently g aunt married there in 1896.Am about to do a thorough search for it Many Thanks again Kathleen Thank you too Georgina

what a star you are jean,I fell asleep on sofa so didnt even start to look!! The family lived in the area you mentioned although they were RC,possibly her groom wasnt.Hope there are still some good pubs on the route of your sons walk.Many many thanks Kathleen

Could not see any churches in Edmund Street from the aerial photograph on multimap. I would expect a spire or tower to stand out but it may have neither. Gary

Hi. My 1928 Bartholemews of Liverpool shows no church in or on Edmond Street (now Edmund Street on the A to Z)The Highfield Street Church is still showing on the A to Z. Keith May

,I was thinking it may of been bombed in the war ,but now after what Keith has said,thats not the answer,thanks Keith and Gary.Wonder where it went? as it wasnt very old

Hi,again,Kathleen Just come back to the tips board from an unsucsessful google search of bomb damage,and found great minds think alike. Sadly we were both wrong!

very strange Dianne,Im really dying to know what happened to it. Keith if you read this page again,could you see where Circus St L/Pool was on your old a-z please its not on my 1970s edition. Thank you all Kathleen

Hi Jean, I think you are right esp in the city centre,I think I read that there was a church in Church St once and when they pulled it down they marked area with a cross it was the site of Woolworths,which I think is no more now.What is your parish?Thanks again for all your help Kathleen

Hi Kathleen. Circus Street ran between Christian Street and Byrom Street in the 1928 Book. However it is now somewhere under the Technical College behind the William Brown Street Library as that area was redeveloped.

William. You could well be right, because the A to Z only shows the existence of the building. Interesting that your remark caused me to look closely at the 1928 Bartholemew. Seems to be a bit of prejudice showing as all C of E Churches seem to be named eg St Paul's, but all the RC ones seem to say R C Ch, or does that just mean chapel. Kathleen, you mentioned the Church in Church Street. That was in fact St Peter's, THE Parish Church of Liverpool and the Liverpool Pro Cathedral until the present Anglican Cathedral Lady Chapel came into use, St Peters was then demolished in 1906-10. There were an enormous number of BMDs carried out there, eg 60plus baptisms on one day. All my wife's relatives were registered there. I was very interested to find that some of the pieces from St Ps were incorporated into a cottage built in Heacham, a small village near here (Hunstanton, Norfolk) Enough I hear you say!! Aye Keith

Keith, yesterday after I had put on tips board about St Peters found out that my g grandfather and all his siblings had been baptised there,now hoping to see if his parents married there.I think H M V music shop is on the site now Kathleen

Im really jealous wish I could have day out in liverpool.Tell your son thanks very much for looking Jean Kathleen

Kathleen, hello. Last night I looked on the "old-maps" site at the Liverpool 1851 map, and when enlarged I could see the probable site of the Chapel. East side of Edmund Street at the Bixteth Street end. However the 1928 map shows the Cotton Exchange covering all that block, so that is where the Chapel is, under the Cotton Exchange built "early 20th Century " Oddly enough the Cotton Exchange has been redeveloped and is now being marketed as Posh Offices. See Google or other search engine.

Thanks for that info Keith,will have a look at that.On www.sjsfiles.btinternet.co.uk they have some good photos of Liverpool including St Peters in Church Street. regards Kathleen