Birkenhead Holy Trinity, Cheshire Genealogy

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

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.

BIRKENHEAD is a seaport town, a market town, and a township, and a parochial chapel over seven separate chapelries, created originally from the ancient parish of Bidstone (which also see), in the district of Wirral, Cheshire. BIRKENHEAD HOLY TRINITY was created from St Mary's Birkenhead in the year 1840.

Birkenhead town stands on the Mersey, opposite Liverpool, about a mile by water west of Liverpool, and 14 3/4 miles by railway north by northwest of Chester. The ancient extra parochial district or chapelry of Birkenhead with Holy Trinity comprises the following other associated chapelies of the town:

*All Saints - 1879 *St Mary - 1719 *Holy Trinity - 1840 *St Anne - 1850 *St James - 1865 *St John - 1859 *St Matthew - 1889 *St Paul - 1863 *St Peter - 1867 *Mariner's Chapel - (by) 1847

Part of the parochial boundary of Birkenhead Chapelry includes the former township of Claughton, in Bidstone ancient parish, and part of Oxton Township, in Woodchurch ancient parish (which also see). These two townships have been incorporated into the township and chapelry of Birkenhead.

There are upwards of thirty non-established places of worship (including Claughton and Oxton). There are two Roman Catholic churches.Holy Trinity Church is a chapelry in Birkenhead, created from St. Mary's Church in 1841. Birkenhead All Saints was built in 1879 as a chapel to Oxton (St Saviour). Genuki UK and Ireland Genealogy

Church records
Birkenhead Holy Trinity parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the Cheshire Archives and Local Studies.

Non-Conformist Churches

 * Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
 * Church of Scotland/Scottish Presbyterian
 * Presbyterian
 * Roman Catholic
 * Unitarian
 * Welsh Baptist
 * Welsh Independent
 * Welsh Presbyterian
 * Wesleyan Methodist

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

Registration Districts

 * Wirral

Poor Law Unions
Wirral Poor Law Union, Cheshire

Birkenhead Poor Law Union, Cheshire

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
Birkenhead Holy Trinity on GENUKI