Sheffield, Yorkshire Genealogy

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Parish History
Sheffield St Peter

The living is a vicarage, valued in the king's books at £12. 15. 2½.; net income, £500; patrons, P. Gell and A. Lawson, Esqrs. The tithes were commuted for land and annual payments in 1791. The vicarage-house is at the corner of St. James' street, and the glebe-land in its vicinity is covered with buildings. Three stipendiary clergymen, with an income of £400 per annum each, are appointed to assist the vicar, by a body called the "Twelve Capital Burgesses:" this body was incorporated by charter of Queen Mary, and holds certain lands and estates in trust, for the payment of the assistant ministers, the repairs of the church, and the relief of the needy poor. The church was erected in the reign of Henry I., and is a spacious cruciform structure, with a central tower and spire; but the edifice has been so altered by repairs, that, with the exception of part of the tower and spire, and a few small portions of the interior, very little of its original character can be distinguished. The chancel contains the first production from the chisel of Chantrey, a mural tablet with a bust of the Rev. James Wilkinson, late vicar, canopied with drapery, in Carrara marble, erected at the public expense. Many illustrious persons have been interred in the church, including Mary, Countess of Northumberland; Elizabeth, Countess of Lennox, mother of the unfortunate Lady Arabella Stuart; Lady Elizabeth Butler; four earls of Shrewsbury; and Peter Roflet, French secretary of Mary, Queen of Scots.

St. Paul's Chapel - 1720

St. James Chapel - 1788

St. George's Church - 1824

St. Philip Church - 1827

St. Mary's Church, Brammall-lane - 1826

St. John, Park-Hill - 1837

Five church districts have been formed in Sheffield under the act 6th and 7th Victoria, cap. 37, namely:

Eldon St Jude - 1846

Holliscroft - 1852

Dyers-Hill - 1865

Moorfields

Olerton - 1858

Carver-Street

Brightside

Pitsmoor - 1846

Wicker - 1847

Gleadless - 1839

Grimesthorpe - 1854

Lydgate - 1788 - lies in West Yorkshire but partly in Rochdale Parish, Lancashire.

Neepsend - 1867

Brightside-Bierlow

Fulwood - 1838

Crookes - 1841

Ecclesall-Bierlow - 1784

Attercliffe - 1694

Darnall - 1844

Heeley - 1848

In the town are eleven places of worship for various denominations of Methodists, six for Independents, and one each for Baptists, Quakers, Roman Catholics

Parish Records
This ancient parish was created before 1813. Church of England records began in 1560 for Sheffield, Cathedral Church of St. Peter and St. Paul.