county of Liverpool C.B.

[Aks]

Could someone tell me what the "County of Liverpool C.B." is? This appears on my mother's birth certificate (1926). Is "County of Liverpool" an old appellation for Lancashire or something more local? What does the C.B. stand for? Sorry for my ignorance.

Many thanks,

Alan

[ShaunJ]

Liverpool became a County Borough in 1889 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_borough

[Ringoroses]

Beat me to it, Shaun 

[Aks]

Thank you Shaun and Ann. Should have thought of that. I have one other query : what does the sub-registration district of Abercromby actually correspond to physically? Presumably it was the area around Abercromby square? Does this correspond to a particular part of Liverpool today which has a name or was it an area invented purely for registration? (I have to try to explain all this to the French registration office!)

Thank you,

Alan

[carol8353]

Alan I don't know if this Genuki page on Liverpool will be any help?

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LAN/Liverpool/

The church in that area was...

St Catherine,
Abercromby Square,
Liverpool
Lancashire

Carol

[Ringoroses]

Not sure of the exact length and breadth of it, but here's a short but interesting little film shot there a while back

http://www.nickbroomfield.com/2054831/Who-Cares

[ShaunJ]

I am not entirely certain of this but I would have expected the Abercromby registration sub-district to be defined by the boundaries of Abercromby ward.

[carol8353]

At the top of that Genuki page I gave you,is the email address for the Liverpool Archives.........I bet they'd know 

[ScouseBoy]

I am not entirely certain of this but I would have expected the Abercromby registration sub-district to be defined by the boundaries of Abercromby ward.

What date would you be talking about, though?

Going back 100 years or so   The West Derby registration district   did not just cover the village of West  Derby,   It went as far as Bootle and Crosby.