Chester Holy Trinity, Cheshire Genealogy

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Chester Holy Trinity

Chester Holy Trinity, Cheshire
Guildhall, Chester
Type	Ancient Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
Hundred	Wirrall
County	Cheshire
Poor Law Union	Chester Incorporation
Registration District	Great Boughton
Records begin
Parish registers: 1598
Bishop's Transcripts: 1599
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery	Chester
Diocese	Pre-1541 - Lichfield and Coventry; Post-1540 - Chester
Province	York
Legal Jurisdictions
Probate Court	Pre-1541 - Court of the Bishop of Lichfield (Episcopal Consistory) Post-1540 - Court of the Bishop of Cheshire (Episcopal Consistory)
Location of Archive
Cheshire Record Office

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.

Resources

Census

Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a FamilySearch Center or at the FamilySearch Library.

Church Records

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

JOIN = The Joiner Marriage Index - (£)

PALL = Pallot's Marriage Index (Ancestry) - (£)

FS PR's =FamilySearch Parish Registers

FS BT's = FamilySearch Bishops Transcripts

Chester Holy Trinity Parish Online Records
	Baptisms		Marriages		Burials
	Indexes	Images	Indexes	Images	Indexes	Images
JOIN			1598-1837
PALL			1790-1837
FS PR's	1656-1909	NONE	1654-1934	NONE	1656-1854	NONE
FS BT's	1599-1893	NONE	1599-1854	NONE	1599-1854	NONE

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.

Parish Registers: Holy Trinity Church	Film
Baptisms, 1656-1725; marriages, 1654-1720; burials, 1656-1721. Baptisms, burials, 1722-1764; marriages, 1722-1754. Baptisms, burials, 1765-1812. Baptisms, 1813-1859.	2068258
Baptisms, May 1859-1925. Marriages, 1796-1812, 1754-1795, 1813-1845.	2068259
Marriages, August 1845-1926.	2068300
Marriages, 1926-1938. Burials, 1813-1854.	2068301 Items 1 - 4
Banns of marriage, 1865-1912.	2068306 Item 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.

Content Bishop's Transcripts: Holy Trinity Church	Film
Baptisms, marriages, burials, 1637	FHL BRITISH Film 1894521 Item 7
Baptisms, marriages, burials, 1599-1601, 1604, 1610-1611, 1663, 1614, 1619, 1616-1618, 1622-1623, 1625, [no date], 1627-1635, 1639, 1641, 1660, 1664, 1667-1677, 1679-1685, 1690, 1695-1696, 1700-1711, [no date], 1714-1721, 1723-1813, 1815-1816, baptisms, 1817-1824, marriages, 1817-1824, burials, 1817-1824, baptisms, marriages, burials, 1825-1829, 1834, baptisms, 1836-1839, marriages, 1836-1839, burials, 1836-1839, baptisms, marriages, burials, 1840-1843, baptisms, marriage, 1844	FHL BRITISH Film 1655478 Item 2
Marriages, burials, 1844, baptisms, marriages, burials, 1845-1854, baptisms, 1855-1893	FHL BRITISH Film 1655479 Item 1

Non-Conformist Churches

• 1671-1900 England, Cheshire Non-conformist Records, 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

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England Jurisdictions 1851
Vision of Britain

Websites

Chester Holy Trinity on GENUKI

Bibliography

Hubbard, Edward (1991). The Work of John Douglas. London: The Victorian Society. p. 131. ISBN 0 901657 16 6.
Pevsner, Nikolaus; Edward Hubbard (2003) [1971], The Buildings of England: Cheshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, pp. 150–151, ISBN 0 300 09588 0

Family History Library (FHL); now called, FamilySearch Library (FSL)

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