Place:Rock Ferry, Cheshire, England

source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

source: Family History Library Catalog

Rock Ferry was a civil parish created in 1894 from part of Higher Bebington. The civil parish was abolished in 1898 when the community became part of Birkenhead. It included the hamlet of Rock Ferry and part of Woodhey. The population was 2971 in 1901. At the 2001 Census, the population of Rock Ferry was 13,676.

In the nationwide municipal reorganization of 1974 the entire Wirral Peninsula, with the exception of the municipal borough of Ellesmere Port and urban district of Neston at the southern end, became the Metropolitan Borough of the Wirral in the new administrative county of Merseyside.

For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Rock Ferry.

Research Tips

• Diagram of Sanitary Districts in Cheshire showing Civil Parishes 1888 produced by the Ordnance Survey and provided by A Vision of Britain through Time
• An Ordnance Survey map of Cheshire circa 1944 supplied by A Vision of Britain through Time
• GENUKI references for Rock Ferry
• A description of Rock Ferry from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72 (courtesy of A Vision of Britain through Time)