Talk:Wakefield St John, Yorkshire Genealogy

New Parish Table
Wakefield St John parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

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To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the West Yorkshire Archive Service.

Old Parish Table
Online data content from chapelry registers of Wakefield St. John exists at some of the following websites and for the specified ranges of years:

For a full list of all those chapels surrounding Chapelry and comprising the whole ancient parish of Wakefield St. John to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the Wakefield St. John page.

Online data content from chapelry registers of Wakefield St. John exists at some of the following websites and for the specified ranges of years:

Wakefield is an 'ancient' parish (created before 1813). Church of England records of Wakefield survive from as early as 1613 (All Saints), 1795 (St. John), 1843 (Holy Trinity), 1845 (St. Andrew), 1845 (St. Mary), 1862 (St Michael), and 1897 (St. Mark). In addition, the following pre-1837 Church of England chapelries were also found within Wakefield parish:


 * St. Peter's and St. Leonard's Horbury (1598)
 * St. Peter's Stanley (1824)
 * St. Paul's Alverthorpe (1825)
 * St. James' Thornes (1831)

The original registers are deposited at the West Yorkshire Archives in Wakefield.

The copies made by the minister (ordered by an Act of 1598) and sent each year to the Bishop of the diocese (known as parish register transcripts or Bishop's transcripts) survive from 1600 and are deposited at the West Yorkshire Archives branch in Sheepscar, Leeds.

The Family History Library in Salt Lake City has both parish registers and bishop's transcripts on microfilm for Wakefield and its chapelries, which are listed in the. Many of these records are indexed in the International Genealogical Indexavailable online through familysearch.org.

To find the names of the neighboring 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.