Wavertree Holy Trinity, Lancashire Family History Guide

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Wavertree Holy Trinity, originally a township in Childwall Ancient Parish, in the county of Lancashire, created an Ecclesiastical Parish in 1825 from Childwall Ancient Parish and ecclesiastically refounded in 1828. The ecclesiastical boundary of Wavertree Holy Trinity was altered in 1856 with the creation of Wavertree St Mary Ecclesiastical Parish, in 1875 with the creation of Mossley Hill St Matthew and St James Ecclesiastical Parish, and in 1901 with the creation of Wavertree St Bridget Ecclesiastical Parish.

Alternative names: Childwall Wavertree Holy Trinity

Parish church: Holy Trinity

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1794
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1806

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Roman Catholic, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Wavertree Holy Trinity Parish Registers

Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials

These records include images of Church of England parish registers of baptism, marriage, and burial records.

Wavertree Holy Trinity, Church of England Baptisms Marriages and Burials 1794-1812

Wavertree Holy Trinity, Church of England Baptisms 1813-1919

Marriages and Banns

These records include images of Church of England parish registers of marriages and banns records.

Wavertree Holy Trinity, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1837-1935

Burials

These records include images of Church of England parish registers of deaths and burial records.

Wavertree Holy Trinity, Church of England Burials, 1813-1965

Parish History

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

WAVERTREE, a township, in the parish of Childwall, union and hundred of West Derby, S. division of Lancashire, 2½ miles (E. by S.) from Liverpool; containing 2669 inhabitants. The orthography of the name in ancient records has the remarkable variations of Waudter, Wavre, Wastpull, Wastyete, and Wartre.

In the 36th of Henry III. the manor was granted to William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby, from whom it reverted to the crown. The royalty of the lands was generally held with the neighbouring township of West Derby, and continued in the line of Lancaster so late as Queen Elizabeth, whose manor Wavertree was. The manor was sold, 14th Charles I., to Edward Ditchfield and others, citizens of London, who immediately afterwards conveyed it to James, Lord Stanley and Strange. From the Stanleys it passed successively to the Legays, Greens, and Gascoynes; and was brought by the heiress of the last named family to the Marquess of Salisbury, the present lord.

The township of Wavertree comprises 1390 acres. Its proximity to Liverpool, and the salubrity of the air, have made it the residence of numerous wealthy families, and the land is fast increasing in value. The high grounds on the east form a fine shelter to the lower parts, which include the Wellington road; and a new road is projected, from Gateacre, past Wavertree, through Spekelands, to the end of Myrtle-street, Liverpool; the houses are to be of the first class, and the road will form one of the principal entrances into the town. The Manchester railway passes here, through a deep cutting of solid red-sandstone rock.

In the township is an extensive brewery, established in 1836, and subsequently much enlarged by the proprietor, Mr. John Anderton.

The living is a perpetual curacy, with a net income of £125, and in the patronage of Trustees. The church, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, was built in 1793, and is a plain structure with a tower and cupola: the late John Ewart, Esq., a member of the present respectable family of that name, is interred here.

Another church, dedicated to St. Mary, was erected in Sandown-park in 1848-9, at a cost of £2400; it is in the middle-pointed style of architecture, from the designs of John Hay, Esq., and is surmounted with a tower and spire. The living is in the gift of the Bishop of Chester.

There are excellent Church schools. A well here, at which contributions were anciently received by monks, bears a curious inscription in Latin, and the date 1414. Mrs. Hemans, the poetess, resided at Wavertree.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Maps

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Administration

  • County: Lancashire
  • Civil Registration District: West Derby
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Chester (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Chester
  • Rural Deanery: Prescot
  • Poor Law Union: West Derby
  • Hundred: West Derby
  • Province: York