Sheffield, Yorkshire Genealogy

England Yorkshire  Yorkshire Parishes, S-Y West Riding  Sheffield

Sheffield, Yorkshire family history and genealogy research page. Guide to parish registers (baptisms, christenings, marriages, and burials), civil registration (births, marriages, and deaths), census records, history, wills, cemetery, online transcriptions and indexes, an interactive map and website resources.

Parish History
"SHEFFIELD (St. Peter), a borough and parish, and the head of a union, partly in the N., but chiefly in the S., division of the wapentake of Strafforth and Tickhill, W. riding of York; containing 111,091 inhabitants, of whom 68,186 are in the township of Sheffield, 55 miles (S. W. by S.) from York.and 163 (N. N. W.) from London.

Sheffield St Peter is an ancient parish, erected in the reign of Henry I.

A Complete List of Sheffield Parish and Chapels
Sheffield had the following parish and chapels attached to it, all lying within its jurisdiction and boundaries as of 1880:

Sheffield St. George's Church - 1824

Sheffield St. James Chapel - 1788 (FHL has from 1828 to 1830 only)

Sheffield St. John, Park-Hill - 1837

Sheffield St Matthias Carver-Street - 1877

Sheffield St. Mary's Church, Brammall-lane - 1830

Sheffield St Peter - 1560

Sheffield St. Paul's Chapel - 1720 (FHL has from 1793 to 1825 only)

Sheffield St. Philip Church - 1827

Sheffield St Stephen - 1858

The following district churches and chapels were built within Sheffield parish and they include the following:

Attercliffe - 1694

Brightside All Saint - 1869

Brightside St Thomas - 1846

Carbrook -1874

Crookes - 1840

Darnall - 1844

Dyers-Hill - 1865

Ecclesall-Bierlow - 1784

Eldon St Jude - 1846

Fulwood - 1838

Gleadless - 1839

Grimesthorpe - 1854

Heeley - 1848

Highfield - 1877

Holliscroft - 1852

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

Neepsend - 1867

Olerton - 1858

Pitsmoor - 1846

Wicker - 1847

Walkley - 1869

In the town are eleven places of worship for various denominations of Methodists, six for Independents, and one each for Baptists, Quakers, 9 Roman Catholics - 1781

Neighboring Parishes
To find the names of the neighbouring 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.

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.