Brightside All Saints, Yorkshire Genealogy

England Yorkshire Yorkshire Parishes, A-I  West Riding of Yorkshire  Brightside All Saints

Parish History
BRIGHTSIDE ALL SAINTS, Ecclesiastical Parishcreated 1848. Authorities: F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 521.

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
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.

Census records
Note that this parish was created from Brightside Ecclesiastical Parish in 1848, therefore census listings would be in Brightside which also is in Brightside-Bierlow township which contains this chapelry.

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