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P 86 - Bidston St. Oswald Parish - 17th century-21st century

Repository	Cheshire Record Office
Level	Collection (Fonds)
Reference	P 86
Title	Bidston St. Oswald Parish
Date	17th century-21st century
Description	Registers: Baptisms 1682-1986, Marriages 1682-1980, Burials 1679-1958. Baptisms at St. Bede's Mission Church 1888-1907. Records other than registers 1646-1973.
Administrative History	An ancient parish church, originally serving the townships of Bidston cum Ford, Birkenhead, Moreton, and Saughall Massie, and most of the township of Claughton with Grange. For later records, see also the parishes of Birkenhead, Claughton, Leasowe and Moreton. St. Bede's opened as a chapel of ease to Bidston in 1888. In 1911 it was transferred to the parish of Birkenhead All Saints, and in 1972 to the parish of Birkenhead St. James.
Related Material	Entries of christenings, marriages and burials, 1581-1694, from the Bishop's Transcripts and the first surviving register (Ref. P86/1/1) are printed in 'Wirral Notes and Queries', Volume I (1892), edited by F. Sanders and W. Fergusson Irvine.

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