Warrington Holy Trinity, Lancashire Genealogy

Guide to Warrington Holy Trinity, Lancashire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: chapelry register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Chapelry History
Trinity Chapel was built as a chapel of ease for Warrington Parish in the year 1761.

WARRINGTON (St.Helen), a borough, market town, and parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of West Derby, S.division of the county of Lancaster; the parish containing, with the chapelry of Burtonwood, and the townships of Poulton with Fearnhead, Rixton with Glazebrook, and Woolston with Martinscroft, 18 miles (E.) from Liverpool, 19½ (W. S. W.) from Manchester, 52(S. by E.) from Lancaster, and 188 (N. W. by N.) from London.

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.

Online Records

 * 1538 - 1910 at FamilySearch — index

 Church of England 

Warrington Holy Trinity chapelry's registers of christenings, marriages and burials, along with those of the ancient parish of Warrington St Elphin to which it is attached, have been mostly transcribed and are displayed online at the following websites and ranges of years:

For a full list of all those chapels surrounding Warrington Holy Trinity and comprising the whole ancient parish of Warrington St Elphin to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the WARRINGTON ST ELPHIN PARISH page.

Church of England

Warrington Holy Trinity Chapel registers are available online (free) for the years 1816-1927.

Non Conformist Records

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)
 * 1647-1996 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)

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