Birkenhead Holy Trinity, Cheshire Genealogy

England Cheshire  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.

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
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.

Census records
http://www.1881pubs.com/ for details of public houses in the 1881 census

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
 * Vision of Britain