Preston Holy Trinity, Lancashire Genealogy

England Lancashire  Lancashire Parishes == Chapel History == Preston Holy Trinity was a created as a chapelry from, and laying within the ancient parish ofPreston St John , Lancashire , in the county of Lancashire, built by 1816. The church closed in the 1950's. The church was demolished in 1951. A car park now occupies the former location which is slightly west of the Ringway. The Diocese of Blackburn is a Church of England diocese, covering much of Lancashire, created in 1926 from part of the Diocese of Manchester. The Diocese includes the towns of Blackburn, Blackpool, Burnley, and the cities of Lancaster, and Preston, as well as a large part of the Ribble Valley. The [chapelry] of the Holy Trinity is a neat stone edifice in the later English style, with a square embattled tower crowned by pinnacles; it was erected in ." It lay within the civil parish boundaries of St John Preston. == Resources == ==== 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 index of Lancashire Births, Marriages and Deaths Lancashire BMD ==== Lancashire Online Parish Clerks ==== An extremely useful resource for research in Lancashire Parishes http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/ ==== Church records ==== ===== Online Records =====  Church of England  Preston Holy Trinity chapelry's registers of christenings, marriages and burials, along with those of the ancient parish of Preston St John to which it is attached, have been mostly transcribed and are displayed online at the following web sites and ranges of years: {| width="275" border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" |- | bgcolor="#ffffff" align="left" colspan="6" | undefinedFamilySearch.org |- | bgcolor="#ffffff" align="left" colspan="6" | undefinedLancashire Online Parish Clerk project |- | bgcolor="#ffffff" align="left" colspan="6" | undefinedFindMyPast.co.uk |- | bgcolor="#ffffff" align="left" colspan="6" | undefinedLancashireBMD.org.uk |- | bgcolor="#ffffff" align="left" colspan="6" | undefinedAncestry.co.uk |- | bgcolor="#ffffff" align="left" colspan="6" | undefinedFreeReg |} {| width="625" border="1" align="center" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" |- | bgcolor="#ffffcc" align="center" colspan="4" | PRESTON HOLY TRINITY Chapelry  (1815) Indexes |- | bgcolor="#ffffcc" | | bgcolor="#66ffcc" | Baptisms | bgcolor="#ccffff" | Marriages | bgcolor="#ffccff" | Burials |- | bgcolor="#ffffcc" | FS | bgcolor="#66ffcc" | 1815-1900 | bgcolor="#ccffff" | 1863-1900 | bgcolor="#ffccff" | None |- | bgcolor="#ffffcc" | LOPC | bgcolor="#66ffcc" | 1815-1900 | bgcolor="#ccffff" | 1865-1900 | bgcolor="#ffccff" | 1816-1855 |- | bgcolor="#ffffcc" | LBMD | bgcolor="#66ffcc" | | bgcolor="#ccffff" | 1865-1949 | bgcolor="#ffccff" | |- | bgcolor="#ffffcc" align="center" colspan="6" | PRESTON ST JOHN(ancient parish containing PRESTON HOLY TRINITY Chapelry) |- | bgcolor="#ffffcc" | | bgcolor="#66ffcc" | Baptisms | bgcolor="#ccffff" | Marriages | bgcolor="#ffccff" | Burials |- | bgcolor="#ffffcc" | FS | bgcolor="#66ffcc" | 1611-1635, 1732, 1767-1792, 1795-1900 | bgcolor="#ccffff" | 1611-1631, 1654-1704, 1729-1906 | bgcolor="#ffccff" | 1731-1732, 1763-1792, 1795-1946 |- | bgcolor="#ffffcc" | LOPC | bgcolor="#66ffcc" | 1753-1770, 1776-1825, 1828-1861, 1863-1932 | bgcolor="#ccffff" | 1611-1635, 1726-1839, 1841-1847, 1868-1902 | bgcolor="#ffccff" | 1753-1770, 1775-1792, 1795-1827, 1858-1861, 1864-1872 |- | bgcolor="#ffffcc" | LBMD | bgcolor="#66ffcc" | | bgcolor="#ccffff" | 1837-1990 | bgcolor="#ffccff" | 1878-1903 |- | bgcolor="#ffffcc" | FMP | bgcolor="#66ffcc" | None | bgcolor="#ccffff" | 1609-1837 | bgcolor="#ffccff" | None |- | bgcolor="#ffffcc" | AC | bgcolor="#66ffcc" | 1611-1635 | bgcolor="#ccffff" | 1611-1635 | bgcolor="#ffccff" | 1611-1635 |} For a full list of all those chapels surrounding Preston Holy Trinity and comprising the whole ancient parish of Preston St John to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the PRESTON ST JOHN PARISH page. ==== Census records ==== ==== Poor Law Unions ==== Preston Poor Law Union, Lancashire ==== 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 == Web sites == == References ==