Talk:Dewsbury, Yorkshire Genealogy

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

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
Dewsbury All Saints, Yorkshire parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Dewsbury Moor St John registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

List of Chapelry's in this Parish

 * Earls Heaton

For a full list of all those chapels surrounding Warrington-Padgate Christ Church and comprising the whole ancient parish of Dewsbury to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the DEWSBURY PARISH  page.

Dewsbury is an 'ancient' parish (created before 1813) in the diocese of Wakefield. Church of England records for Dewsbury All Saints survive from 1538. Other pre-1837 Church of England (Anglican) churches in Dewsbury parish include:


 * St. Peter's Hartshead (with records from 1612)
 * Holy Trinity Ossett (from 1792)
 * St. Paul's Hanging-Heaton (from 1825)
 * St. John the Evangelist Dewsbury-Moor (from 1827)
 * St. Peter's Earls-Heaton (from 1827)

The original registers are deposited at the West Yorkshire Archives in Wakefield. Microfilm/fiche copies are available at archive branches such as Leeds at Sheepscar and Kirklees in Huddersfield.

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 Dewsbury and its chapelries, which are listed in the. Many of these records are indexed in the International Genealogical Index available online through the 'Advanced Search' at www.familysearch.org.