Chester Holy Trinity, Cheshire Genealogy

Parish History
Holy Trinity is a parish in the city of Chester. For more information on the city, see Chester.

Chester, Holy Trinity, Watergate Street is an an ancient parish church, also serving part of the township of Blacon cum Crabwall. Replaced 1960 by Holy Trinity-without-the Walls in Norris Road, Blacon

The Guildhall, formerly Holy Trinity Church, is a redundant church in Watergate in the city of Chester, Cheshire, England. It is a Grade II listed building. In the early 1960s it was converted into the Guildhall.

The original building, which had a north aisle, probably dated from the 14th century. The east end and south side were rebuilt in 1680. This church had a spire which was rebuilt in the 1770s but in 1811 was taken down for reasons of safety. The present church was built between 1865 and 1869 to a design by James Harrison. He died before it was finished and the church was completed by the firm of Kelly and Edwards of Chester.

Church Records
Chester Holy Trinity parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials have been indexed by the following groups:

Here is a list of parish registers on microfilm at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City.

Parish registers for Holy Trinity Church, Chester, 1654-1938, Cheshire Record Office call no.: P 1/1-2, 4, 6, 8; P 1/3063/1/1-5, P 1/3, 5, 7; P 1/3063/2/1-7; P 1/9-10.

Registers of Baptisms 1656–1925, Marriages 1654–1939 and Burials 1656–1854 have been deposited at the Cheshire Record Office.

Bishop's transcripts Cheshire Record Office, Chester, England. Cheshire Record Office reference: EDB 52.

Non-Conformist Churches

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)
 * 1671-1900 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from 1 July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. Here are two excellent Internet sites with birth, marriage and death indexes available:


 * FreeBMD
 * Cheshire BMD

Civil Registration Districts

 * Great Boughton (1837–69)
 * Chester (1870–1998)
 * Cheshire West (post 1998)

Poor Law Unions
Chester Poor Law Union

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.

see also England Cheshire Probate Records - FamilySearch Historical Records

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

Websites
Chester Holy Trinity on GENUKI