Birkenhead Holy Trinity, Cheshire Genealogy

England Cheshire Cheshire Parishes  Birkenhead Holy Trinity

Parish History
Birkenhead, Holy Trinity Price Street. Founded 1840 as the parish church for part of Birkenhead; closed in 1974. No burials took place here. Later Birkenhead St Anne,Cheshire Beckwith Street was  Built in 1847 as a chapel to Holy Trinity, becoming a separate parish in 1861; closed in 1987.

BIRKENHEAD is a seaport town, a market town, and a township, and a parochial chapel over seven separate chapelries, created originally from the ancient parish of Bidstone (which also see), in the district of Wirral, Cheshire. BIRKENHEAD HOLY TRINITY was created from St Mary's Birkenhead in the year 1840.

Birkenhead town stands on the Mersey, opposite Liverpool, about a mile by water west of Liverpool, and 14 3/4 miles by railway north by northwest of Chester. The ancient extra parochial district or chapelry of Birkenhead with Holy Trinity comprises the following other associated chapelies of the town:


 * All Saints - 1879 *St Mary - 1719&lt;br&gt; *Holy Trinity - 1840&lt;br&gt; *St Anne - 1850&lt;br&gt; *St James - 1865 *St John - 1859&lt;br&gt; *St Matthew - 1889 *St Paul - 1863&lt;br&gt; *St Peter - 1867 *Mariner's Chapel - (by) 1847

Part of the parochial boundary of Birkenhead Chapelry includes the former township of Claughton, in Bidstone ancient parish, and part of Oxton Township, in Woodchurch ancient parish (which also see). These two townships have been incorporated into the township and chapelry of Birkenhead.

There are upwards of thirty non-established places of worship (including Claughton and Oxton). There are two Roman Catholic churches. Birkenhead All Saints was built in 1879 as a chapel to Oxton (St Saviour).&lt;ref&gt;ref&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;[Genuki UK and Ireland Genealogy&lt;/ref&gt; &lt;ref&gt;Wilson, John Marius,Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, (1870). Adapted. Date accessed: 5 February 2013&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;br&gt

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

Church records
Birkenhead Holy Trinity parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials have been indexed by the following groups:

To find the names of the neighbouring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Parish registers for Holy Trinity Church, Birkenhead, 1840-1962 Holy Trinity Church is a chapelry in Birkenhead, created from St. Mary's Church in 1841

An index for Cheshire parish registers is available online in Record Search

Cheshire Record Office reference: P 107/1/1-12, 2/1-10.

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Cheshire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Poor Law Unions
Wirral Poor Law Union, Cheshire

Birkenhead Poor Law Union, Cheshire

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
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