Tranmere, Cheshire Genealogy

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Tranmere

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

Parish History

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.

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

Census records

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

Trenmere St Catherine parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials have been indexed by the following groups:

BIVRI = British Isles Vital Records Index (Ancestry) - (£)

FS PR's =FamilySearch Parish Registers

FS BT's = FamilySearch Bishops Transcripts

Tranmere St Catherine Chapelry then Parish 1842 Online Records
	Baptisms		Marriages		Burials
	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
	Baptisms		Marriages		Burials
	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
	Baptisms		Marriages		Burials
	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

• Primitive Methodist
• Protestant Dissenters
• Roman Catholic
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Wesleyan Methodist
• Independent Chapel

Non-Conformist records:

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

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 (1837-61)
• Birkenhead (1861-98)

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

Tranmere on GENUKI

References

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