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hi do you have the marriages for st hillarys 1913 if so does it give you the bride n grooms fathers names thanks sasha

Cheshire board of Rootschat. Quite a lot of Wirral stuff comes up and they can be quite helpful in looking up things if requested.

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/board,6.0.html

For younger people who may not remember, we used to be Cheshire.

Still are as far as I'm concerned

ditto ! As do the counties of Cumberland, Westmorland, The East, North & West Ridings of Yorkshire. etc.etc.

Me too Chris.

^ snobs!!

Without wishing to get into an argument, those who still want to be part of Cheshire all seem to have left the area?

Anyway, in case you haven't been back for a while, we are still in the same place despite the Merseyside tag.

It used to be known as Gay glorious New Brighton. Do you want that back or do we accept progress? Most people on the Wirral originated from Liverpool via Ireland/Wales/Outer Mongolia (insert own) anyway.

Viva la difference as the Welsh say!

The original terms of changing to Merseyside from Cheshire was that it was purely an administrative move and was not a social or demographical change (I will try and find the exact wording).

Unfortunately the Royal Mail made the change as well, as our mail and postcode was Liverpool/Merseyside.

Now that we are in Chester/Cheshire for postal purposes, the Royal Mail should allow the postal address to be reverted back to Cheshire.

Its nothing to do with snobbery (some of Cheshire has far worse areas than Liverpool or the Wirral) it is just plain common sense - we are physically attached to Cheshire.

I was born in Birkenhead, Cheshire and to this day use that when asked for my place of birth - I would be lying if I said I was born in Birkenhead, Merseyside.

Snobbery ?? Well that's a laugh and a half. It's nothing whatsoever to do with "snobbery". I was born and brought up in Birkenhead, It's still my "home". I come "home" as often as I can.

If I was born/brought up in the sylvan retreats of Timperley, Alderley or parts of the great Cheshire plain, then I could be viewed (by some) as being snobbish maybe.

No, it was a group of overpaid, braindead suits that decided without any consultation with the public (oh - how dreadful THAT would be) that parts of Lancashire and Cheshire would henceforth be known as Merseyside ! Well sorry, it didn't work with me and countless others. The old tenements of Price Street were in Cheshire, as are the residences of Pine Walks.

Just off for my breakfast, part of which is Cumberland Sausage. Maybe it should be Cumbria Sausage ?? Excuse me whilst I vomit over the society pages of my copy of "Horse & Hound"

As a closing thought, because I and a lot of other regular contributors to wikiwirral no longer live on the Wirral, by virtue of a previous job move or whatever, is that a bar to us putting our 2d's worth in ?? Maybe I missed something in the small print ?

in reality wirral loosely means isle of the welsh

so maybe we should be on a welsh postcode

Wasn't the change from Cheshire to Merseyside done for political reasons namely Sailor boy Heath may he be rotting in hell,decided that turning the Cities to Metro area's would screw Liebour up in the Liebour ghetto's as the right would outnumber the left,lets face it no politician works for the public interest.

Nope, I'm still here. I have a CH postcode, not a L postcode. By virtue of this, it is not Merseyside. It was Cheshire when I was born and as far as I'm concerned, it still is.

Even more annoying is that the County of Merseyside was disbanded and they still didn't have the decency to revert us back to Cheshire.

I find it all very bemusing.

I was born in Wallasey, Cheshire and happily grew up in a town called the 'County Borough of Wallasey' run by 'Wallasey Borough Council' out of Wallasey Town Hall. My mailing address was 'Wallasey, Cheshire'. We had our own buses, our own Police Force, the town was pretty neat and clean. What was the problem with this, again? (somebody please remind me?)

Then along comes the "County" of 'Merseyside' and suddenly we're no longer in Cheshire so the Post Office changed our mailing address to 'Wallasey Merseyside'. But apparently, the Post Office also thought that this made us part of Liverpool - and so we got 'L44' for a Post Code... hmmm....!!

OK then they disbanded Mereseyside County Council and so I now understand that my hometown administratively, no longer exists, as it is now run by 'Wirral Borough Council' (which of course, is far better for Wallasey and its residents than when it used to run itself? - yeah right).

Now it's apparently, officially still located in and part of the "County" of 'Merseyside'...
...however, the Post Office now seems to have decided that Wallasey is now once again in Cheshire?? So they changed the Post Code to CHxx (my folks' address now, I understand, is 'Wallasey, Mersyside, CH44 2DH'??)

Is it just me, or has this whole sorry story been complete and utter madness?!? Seems to have all been done purely for Political expediency and so of course, had nothing to do with improving 'anything' for 'anyone' (except, of course, the Politicians I suppose).

Grrrrr!

I can't say I'm really bothered, I'm from Birkenhead and i have enough trouble explaining where that is to all sorts of people around the world, as well as people of Great Britain. It doesn't seem to matter if you throw in Wirral, Cheshire, they mainly cotton on when you say near Liverpool or on the Mersey. Talking to a Yank once and his Knowledge of here was he had heard of Liverpool because of the Beatles. He then asked me "do you know Eric from Bristol", i asked "does he wear a checked coat" He replied "not sure", the mind boggles.