Halifax Holy Trinity, Yorkshire Genealogy

Guide to Halifax Holy Trinity, Yorkshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
Halifax Holy Trinity was a chapel of ease built within the parish of Halifax St John the Baptist.

'The church dedicated to 'Holy Trinity, situated in the western portion of the town, was built in 1798, by Dr. Coulthurst.

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 data content from chapelry registers of Halifax Holy Trinity exists at some of the following websites and for the specified ranges of years:

For a full list of all those chapels surrounding Halifax Holy Trinity and comprising the whole ancient parish of Halifax St. John the Baptist to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the Halifax St. John the Baptist page.

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.

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Yorkshire 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