Kirkheaton, Yorkshire Genealogy

Guide to Kirkheaton, Yorkshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
HEATON, KIRK (St. John the Baptist), a parish, in the union of Huddersfield, Upper division of the wapentake of Agbrigg, W. riding of York. The parish consists of the townships of Kirk-Heaton, Dalton, Lepton, and Whitley. There are places of worship for Wesleyans.

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

Church Records
parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

Monumental Inscriptions
For a transcription of all monumental inscriptions in the Kirkheaton parish church cemetery, see https://kirkheaton.info/. You need to register on the site to access the transcriptions. A map of the cemetery is included. Monumental inscriptions generally give more family connections and information than the parish register burial records.

Probate Records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Yorkshire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Maps and Gazetteers
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
For a transcription of all monumental inscriptions in the Kirkheaton parish church cemetery, see https://kirkheaton.info/. You need to register on the site to access the transcriptions. This website includes fantastic additional resources and information for Kirkheaton including 20th century baptisms and the 1939 register.