Tranmere, Cheshire Genealogy
Guide to Tranmere, Cheshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Tranmere, Cheshire | |
|---|---|
 St. Catherine's Church, Tranmere Cheshire | |
| Type | Ecclesiastical Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Wirrall |
| County | Cheshire |
| Poor Law Union | Wirral |
| Registration District | Wirrall |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1831 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: None | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Wirral |
| Diocese | Pre-1541 - Lichfield and Coventry; Post-1540 - Chester |
| Province | Canterbury |
| 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 | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
TRANMERE, is a township and two chapelries in Bebington parish,The township lies on the Mersey, and on the Birkenhead and Chester railway, around Rock-Ferry railway station, from 2 to 3 miles S of Birkenhead; and has post-offices of Higher Tranmere and Lower Tranmere under Birkenhead. The chapelries are St. Catherine and St. Paul; and were constituted in 1842 and 1856. St. Catherine church which was built in 1831; St. Paul's church was built in 1856. A Scotch church, is in New Chester-road. A Wesleyan chapel, was built in 1862; and there are four other Methodist chapels, an Independent chapel, a Roman Catholic chapel.[1]
Tranmere St Catherine is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Cheshire, created in 1842 from chapelry in Nether Bebington, Cheshire Ancient Parish.
Tranmere is a suburb of Birkenhead, on the Wirral Peninsula, Merseyside, England. Administratively, it is also a ward of the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral. Before local government reorganisation in 1 April 1974, it was part of the County Borough of Birkenhead, within the geographical county of Cheshire.
Its name was given by Norwegian Vikings who settled and colonised Wirral in the 10th century. Tranmere in Old Norse is Trani-melr, meaning "Cranebird sandbank" or "sandbank with the Cranebirds".
Tranmere Old Hall and its estate was situated around what is now Church Road. It was a large, gabled building constructed around 1614. According to the author Philip Sulley's The Hundred of Wirral (1889), in about 1860.
Resources[edit | edit source]
Census Records[edit | edit source]
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 Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
Church Records[edit | edit source]
Trenmere St Catherine parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials have been indexed by the following groups:
| BIVRI = British Isles Vital Records Index (Ancestry) - (£)[2] | |||||
| FS PR's =FamilySearch Parish Registers | |||||
| FS BT's = FamilySearch Bishops Transcripts |
| Tranmere St Catherine Chapelry then Parish 1842 Online Records | ||||||
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| BIVRI | 1845-1909 | |||||
| FS PR's | 1751-1909 | NONE | 1845-1934 |
NONE | NONE |
NONE |
| FS BT's | NONE |
NONE | NONE |
NONE | NONE |
NONE |
Trenmere St Paul parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials have been indexed by the following groups:
| Tranmere St Paul Parish Online Records | ||||||
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| BIVRI | 1858-1870, 1878-1893 | 1858-1904 | ||||
| FS PR's | 1858-1909 | NONE | 1883-1934 |
NONE | NONE |
NONE |
| FS BT's | NONE |
NONE | NONE |
NONE | NONE |
NONE |
Trenmere St Paul parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials have been indexed by the following groups:
| Lower Tranmere St Luke Parish Online Records | ||||||
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| FS PR's | 1840-1909 | NONE | 1858-1934 |
NONE | NONE |
NONE |
| FS BT's | 1883-1900 | NONE | NONE |
NONE | NONE |
NONE |
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.
Here is a list of Tranmere parish registers on microfilm at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City.
St Paul's Parish registers: Cheshire Record Office no.: P93/1/1-6, P93/2/1-5, P93/3, P93/4210/3-4.
| Parish registers of St. Paul's Church, Tranmere, 1858-1949 | Film | |
| Baptisms, 1858-187 | 1656605 Item 6 | |
| Baptisms, 1878-1909. Marriages, 1858-1894 |
1656718 | |
| Marriages, 1894-1903. Banns, 1858-1883 |
1656719 Items 1 - 2 | |
| Baptisms, 1910-1934. Marriages, 1903-Dec. 1947 |
2197438 Items 2 - 8 | |
| Marriages, Dec. 1947-1949 |
2197439 Item 1 |
St Luke's Parish registers: Cheshire Record Office call nos.: P94/1/1-7, P94/2/1-3, P94/3/1.
| Parish registers for St. Luke's Church, Lower Tranmere, 1883-1952 |
Film |
| Baptisms, 1883-Mar. 1906 |
2104770 Items 13 - 14 |
| Baptisms, Mar. 1906-1943. Marriages, Aug. 1884-1952. Marriage banns, 1883-1903. |
2104771 Items 1 - 9 |
St Catherine's Chapelry in the parish of Bebington registers: Cheshire Record Office no.: P157/1/1-4, P157/2/1-3, P157/4382/1-5, P157/4794/3-4, P157/6017/5
| Parish registers for St. Catherine's Church, Tranmere, 1831-1953 |
Film |
| Baptisms, 1831-1889 |
1656604 Items 4 - 6 |
| Baptisms, 1889-1910. Marriages, 1845-1904. |
1656605 Items 1 - 5 |
| Baptisms, 1910-1932. Marriages, 1904-1932. |
2197439 Items 2 - 6 |
| Marriages, 1932-1953 |
2262739 Items 1 - 3 |
St Paul's Bishop's transcripts: Cheshire Record Office no.: EDB 206
| Bishop's transcripts for St. Paul's Church, Tranmere, 1858-1884 | Film |
| Baptisms, 1858-1884 |
1647714 Item 5 |
St Luke's Bishop's transcripts: Cheshire Record Office no.: EDB 132
| Bishop's transcripts for St. Luke's Church, Lower Tranmere, 1883-1901 | Film |
| Baptisms, 1883-1888, 1899, 1898, 1900-1901, 1897-1895 (filmed backwards), 1892, 1895, 1893-1894, 1892-1894, 1890-1892, 1890, 1889 |
1647518 Item 4 |
Non-Conformist Churches[edit | edit source]
- 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images
- Primitive Methodist
- Protestant Dissenters
- Roman Catholic
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Wesleyan Methodist
- Independent Chapel
Non-Conformist records:
- 1600s-1910 Cheshire Non-Conformist & Roman Catholic Registers (Baptism) 17th Century-1910 at FindMyPast ($); index and images (dates may vary by parish)
- 1671-1900 England, Cheshire Non-conformist Records, 1671-1900 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)
Wesleyan Methodist Church records: Cheshire Record Office: EMS 133/1/1
| Freehold Chapel (Lower Tranmere: Wesleyan Methodist Church records, 1857-1904 |
Film |
| Baptisms 1857-1904 |
1594191 Item 6 |
Walker Street Wesleyan Methodist Chapel church records: Cheshire Record Office: EMS 140/1/1-3.
| Church records for the Walker Street Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Higher Tranmere, 1855-1953 | Film |
| Baptisms, 1855-1953. |
2299472 Items 1 - 3 |
| Baptisms, 1855-1923 (another filming). |
1594191 Item 5 |
Church records for the Old Chester Road Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Lower Tranmere: Cheshire Record Office: EMS 133/1/1-2, 5
| Church records for the Old Chester Road Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Lower Tranmere, 1857-1953 | Film |
| Baptisms, 1857-1953. Marriages, 1905-1944. |
2299472 Items 8 - 10 |
Church records for the Mt. Tabor Primitive Methodist Church: Cheshire Record Office call nos.: EMS 138/6/1-3.
| Church records for the Mt. Tabor Primitive Methodist Church, Tranmere, 1916-1955 |
Film |
| Marriages, 1916-1955 |
2299418 Items 13 - 15 |
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
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:
Registration Districts[edit | edit source]
- Wirral (1837-61)
- Birkenhead (1861-98)
Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]
Wirral Poor Law Union, Cheshire
Birkenhead Poor Law Union, Cheshire
Probate Records[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites[edit | edit source]
Tranmere on GENUKI
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72). Date Accessed: 12 April 2013
- ↑ 'British Isles Vital Records Index - 2nd Ed. Breakdown of Records', Genoot, accessed 14 October 2013.
Contributor: add any relevant sites that aren’t mentioned above.
