Talk:Leeds, Yorkshire Genealogy

New Parish Table
Leeds 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.

Available now at Ancestry.co.uk are two databases to records containing information on West Yorkshire poor:


 * 1) Removal orders and (parish) settlement records for the poor who resided in West Yorkshire for the boroughs of Bradford, Calderdale (Pickering, ), Kirklees, Leeds, and Wakefield.
 * 2) Miscellaneous Select Poor Law and Township Records, 1663-1914 of West Yorkshire.
 * 3) West Yorkshire, England, Select Rate Books, Accounts and Censuses, 1705–1893

See the Wiki page on Leeds St Peter, Yorkshire Genealogy for a more complete listing of links to churches and chapelries christenings, marriages and burials online.

Old Parish Table
Available now at Ancestry.co.uk are two databases to records containing information on West Yorkshire poor:


 * 1) Removal orders and (parish) settlement records for the poor who resided in West Yorkshire for the boroughs of Bradford, Calderdale (Pickering, ), Kirklees, Leeds, and Wakefield.
 * 2) Miscellaneous Select Poor Law and Township Records, 1663-1914 of West Yorkshire.
 * 3) West Yorkshire, England, Select Rate Books, Accounts and Censuses, 1705–1893

See the Wiki page on Leeds St Peter, Yorkshire Genealogy for a more complete listing of links to churches and chapelries christenings, marriages and burials online.

Parishes
Leeds city proper falls under the Anglican Diocese of Leeds:

Anglican Diocese of Leeds Church House 17-19 York Pl Leeds LS1 2EX Website

Some specific Anglican churches follow:

Leeds Minster 8 St Peters House Kirkgate Leeds LS2 7DJ Email: contact@leedsminster.org Website

St Georges Great George Street Leeds,LS1 3BR

Parish Church of St. Mary's Dewsbury Rd Dewsbury, Leeds WF12 7JL

St. Mary's Church, Whitkirk Selby Rd Leeds LS15 0AA

St. Mary's Parish Church, Beeston Town Street Leeds LS11 8PN

St Mary the Virgin, Hunslet Church Street Hunslet, West Yorkshire, LS10 2QY

'''St Mary the Virgin, Beeston Town Street Beeston, West Yorkshire, LS11 8RD

St Luke's Church Stanks Ln N Swarcliffe LS14 5AS

St John the Evangelist 23 New Briggate Leeds LS2 8JD

Non Conformists
There are many other christian denominations represented in Leeds. A list of the major denominations follows:


 * Abundant Life Church
 * Baptists
 * Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
 * Chinese Christian Church
 * City Evangelical Church
 * Greek Orthodox
 * Jehovah's Witnesses
 * Methodist
 * Russian Orthodox
 * Seventh Day Adventist
 * Sheffield Jesus Centre

Non Christian communities include:


 * Buddhist
 * Hindu
 * Jain
 * Jewish
 * Muslim
 * Shinto
 * Sikh
 * Taoist