Salford Sacred Trinity, Lancashire Genealogy

England Lancashire  Lancashire Parishes

Guide to Salford Sacred Trinity, Lancashire family history and genealogy. Parish registers (baptism, christening, marriage, and burial records), civil registration (birth, marriage, and death records), census records, history, wills, cemetery, online transcriptions and indexes, an interactive map and websites.

Chapelry History
SALFORD, Sacred Trinity, an ancient chapel and one of twelve chapelries in Salford Township (as of 1885), and lying within the civil parish of Manchester. Salford is also a district, and a hundred, in Lancashire. The borough boundaries are the same municipally as parliamentarily; and include all Salford, Pendleton, and Broughton townships, and part of Pendlebury. The chapel was created by 1635.

The places of worship in Salford in 1851, were 13 of the Church of England; 1 of the 'Church of Scotland; 6 of Independents; 2 of Baptists; 1 of Unitarians; 7 of Wesleyans; 1 of New Connexion Methodists; 2 of Primitive Methodists; 3 of the Wesleyan Association; 1 of Welsh Calvinistic Methodists; 1 of the New Church; 1 of Roman Catholics; and 1 of Latter Day Saints.

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
Online Records  Online transcriptions exist for Salford Sacred (Holy) Trinity Chapelry and its eleven sister chapelries in this very large suburb in Manchester ancient parish (the Cathedral).

Listed below are all the chapels serving Salford Township and the web-links to online data (transcriptions) and the ranges of years:

To view a full list of all Manchester ancient parish's (150-plus) chapelries, ecclesiastical parishes and district chapels, and their links to online data for their baptism, marriage and burial registers, visit the MANCHESTER (CATHEDRAL), OUR LADY, ST GEORGE &amp; ST DENYS page.

Original Records

Original parish and chapel registers are held at the Manchester Record Office, William Brown Street, Manchester L3 8EW, United Kingdom.

The Manchester Room and Greater Manchester County Record Office Email: archiveslocalstudies@manchester.gov.uk

The Manchester Room@City Library (Local Studies) FamilySearch has microfilmed these original parish (chapelry) registers and they are available for viewing

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

Maps and Gazetteers
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain