England & Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index
Marriages 1754 - 1837
Liverpool Holy Trinity

The Parish

Liverpool is one of England's largest ports and cities, it is made up of numerous parishes with many created from St Nicholas & St Peter which largely covered the area of today's city centre, Holy Trinity was created in 1792 from a St Nicholas. Liverpool is sited on the banks of the River Mersey which separates it from the Wirral area of Cheshire. It is thus in the extreme southwest of the ancient county of Lancashire. Liverpool is a relatively modern phenomenon, there was little here prior to the Elizabethan era, indeed the area was still just part of the wider parish of Walton on the Hill until the late 17th century. Nowadays Liverpool is a vast conurbation spreading for many miles both north and south of its origins but also inland too spreading to engulf what were separate villages until recent times. Liverpool was, at the commencement of this transcript's period, a small port with 4 parishes. Like all urban parishes Holy Trinity covered a very small area, just a few city blocks lying to the north of the city's Lime Street Station and bordering the neighbouring parish of Everton. By the time this transcript completes there are 17 parishes licensed for marriage and numerous villages engulfed with their own records. Today the area around Holy Trinity is a largely residential area interspersed with commercial premises but is dominated by the infrastructure at Liverpool's end of the Mersey Tunnel. The rows of tightly packed terrace housing has been largely removed in slum-clearance programs and modern development dominates. The volume of marriages recorded in the latter stages of the transcript period indicate a population into the several thousands.

The Church

Holy Trinity church was founded in 1792 from St Nicholas to serve the northern edges of that parish, it quickly became established as a church for marriages with over 300 marriages in its first decade of operation and averaging a marriage per week through the transcript period. The church escaped the fate of many of Liverpool's churches, that of bomb damage in World War II but was declared redundant and finally demolished in 1968. Funded by private investors it was a large stone-built structure with its western tower surmounted by elaborate stone vases, a distinct feature. There is no visible evidence of the church today.