Toxteth.net - external links
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Links are always a personal choice, and this page simply lists the sites that I have found useful or interesting in my own genealogy researches.
The content and order is arbitrary and I have missed out lots, which I keep forgetting to add - nothing nasty is intended if anyone is missing!
Not all are strictly Toxteth-related but they are all sites that I feel have helped me to make progress.

Anything 'essential' that I am missing ? then please let me know.

 

Merseyside Genealogy & History

 

Friendly, informative board with nice knowledgeable folks, all you could ask for.

Lancashire Online Parish Clerks

 

Excellent project, admirable purpose and lots of information.

Old Mersey Times

 

 Jane's Brilliant site with old lives and times transcribed from newspapers

Free BMD

 

 A project to transcribe the registration index of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales

Lancashire BMD

 

Really useful.  Remember that references from this index are to local not national registers.

Mike Royden

 

 Liverpool History site.

History of Otterspool

 

Another of Mike Royden's, extensive and detailed articles, includes some Toxteth info.

Lancashire Galleries

 

Owner Richard Hawes has given freely of time and resources and I am very grateful

FreeCen

 

 Parts of the UK census online and, as the name says - free

Key to Latinised Christian names

 

 Catholic relatives usually have latinised christian names on baptismal records.

Trade Directories online

 

 Historical directories, online.  A splendid project for online access of Gores, Kellys etc.

Scottie Press

 

Wonderful evocative site which repays time, as links are not always obvious.

Eng-Liverpool mailing list

 

very useful and good emailing list, the archives abound with useful stuff

Liverpool Churches

 

 Excellent resource.

Liverpool Overhead Railway

 

 Useful site plus on-going links to more still.

Liverpool History

 

 Potentially useful site, although the pictures will not load and bad links abound.

Liverpool Pictorial

 

 Brilliant picture-rich site covering both sides of the Mersey.

Canning area

 

 Another excellent site, loads of historical information on an adjacent area.

Trams and more trams

 

 Top site with heaps of information.

St James Cemetery

 

 Really informative and nice on the eye too. NEW URL

Stepping Stones

 

Commercial site for  hard to get census CDs, trade directories, data - helpful and rapid response.

Williamson's Tunnels

 

Outside of 'my' area, but on the edge of Toxteth and a fascinating website and place to visit.

London Ilustrated News

 

John Weedy's brilliant site, this is what the web is about

Times things happened

 

Start reading this and I guarantee that you will not stop

Obtain a copy of a will

 

for wills after 1858

Obtain a copy of an earlier will

 

for wills before 1858