Thanks to all who helped with this. I now know that Edward Sutton was buried in St Mary's Bidston. Are there likely to be any memorials here or anyone with MI´s? I know the church closed in the 1970´s Thanks to all Alan Alan Sutton www. <http://www.ownersinportugal.org/> ownersinportugal.org _____ From: Alan Sutton [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 04 December 2004 00:09 To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: St Oswald and St Mary Birkenhead This is a request for anyone who may have the Parish registers for a burial in one of these churches (? possibly) I am trying to find the burial of my 5g grandfather EDWARD SUTTON who died 21st October 1858 at Dock Cottages Birkenhead. This was before the Flaybrick cemetery opened and although his wife is in Flaybrick I think this where he is likely to be? Or is it likely he would be buried in his "home town" of Newton le Willows? He was not wealthy. Any help gratefully received. Alan Sutton www. <http://www.ownersinportugal.org/> ownersinportugal.org

Dear Alan, Do you mean St Mary's in Birkenhead as it is St Oswald Church in Bidston. Bidston is a little village and only has one church. Bidston is also a ancient parish covering a few hamlets and villages like Moreton, Claughton, Saughall Massie and Bidston -cum-ford. BIDSTON Bidston, St. Oswald (C of E). An ancient parish, originally comprising the townships of Bidston cum Ford, Birkenhead, Claughton with Grange (part), Moreton (near Wallasey) and Saughall Massie. Registers of baptisms 1682-1986 marriages 1682-1980 and burials 1679-1958 are at the CRO. Bishop's Transcripts survive from 1581. Registers 1581-1700 have been published in W. F. Irvine (ed.), The Baptismal, Marriage and Burial Registers of the Parish of Bidston, in the County of Chester (1893). Monumental inscriptions have been published by the FHS of Cheshire (1989). St Mary's was the parish church of Birkenhead, which was:- A township and chapelry in Bidston Parish, Wirral Hundred (SJ 3289). In 1898 the civil parish was extended to include Claughton cum Grange, Oxton, Rock Ferry and Tranmere. In 1928 part of Bidston cum Ford was added to Birkenhead and in 1933 Birkenhead was extended to include Landican, Noctorum, Prenton, Thingwall and Woodchurch, and parts of Arrowe, Bidston cum Ford and Upton by Birkenhead. In 1974 Birkenhead was transferred to the county of Merseyside. Birkenhead was a county borough from 1889 to 1974. Includes the hamlets of Egerton Park, Grange and Woodside. The population was 110 in 1801, 24285 in 1851, 110912 in 1901 and 142501 in 1951. St Mary's Churchyard was converted to a dock sometime (can't remember the date) and the gravestones where moved to the back of Landican Cemetery, and laid flat. Last time i saw them they were covered in grass, and many are illegible being so old. These stones have not been recorded as far as i know but some of the stones remaining at St Mary's have been recorded and i checked these and your Edward Sutton is not on the list for the ones remaining at the Church. However his headstone, if any, may well be one of the ones at Landican but i have not seen a list of any MI's done for that very old section. He is not on the St Oswald, Bidston MI's but i will check the other Sutton's as promised for you as there are other Sutton's there. if you would like some pictures of St Mary's or St Oswald please let me know and i will send them Kind Regards Wendy .............(`'·.¸(`'·.¸ ¸.·'´)¸.·'´).............. «´¨`·.¤º°`°º¤ø°º¤ø¤º°*ø¤º°`°º¤.·´¨`» .............(¸.·'´(¸.·'´ `'·.¸)`'·.¸).............. -------Original Message------- ==== CHESHIRE Mailing List ==== Cheshire Surnames Interest Directory: http://www.fhsc.org.uk/surnames/