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Wirral Archive Services - Documents we hold
Wirral Archives Service hold documents dating back to the fifteenth century, with most dating from the nineteenth and twentieth century.
These documents include:
- Records of Wirral local government (i.e. borough and district councils),
including minutes, building plans and rate books
- Records of the Poor Law and of local workhouses
- School records
- Hospital records
- Court records, including Quarter Sessions and County Court
- Business records, including the extensive collection of Cammell Laird
Shipbuilders Ltd
- Records of local clubs, societies, organisations and individuals
- Solicitors' records, including title deeds
- Maps and plans, including tithe maps, Ordnance Survey maps, and marine maps
of the Wirral Coastline
- Local newspapers
In addition to these original documents, we also hold on microfilm or
microfiche a number of sources of particular use to family historians,
including:
- Census returns for Wirral 1841 - 1901
- Electoral registers for Wirral 1842 - 1900
- Records of burials in municipal cemetaries
Researchers requiring parish registers of baptisms, marriages and burials should contact Cheshire Record Office or Birkenhead Reference Library; and those requiring birth, marriage and death certificates should contact the Superintendent Registrar's Office.