Sheffield Park, Yorkshire Genealogy

England Yorkshire  Yorkshire Parishes S-Y  West Riding of Yorkshire Sheffield Park

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

Parish History
Sheffield, parl. and mun. bor., manufacturing town, parish, and township, S. div. West-Riding Yorkshire, on river Don, 157 miles NW. of London by rail, 42½ SE. of Manchester, and 53 SW. of York.

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.

Online Records
Online data content from parish registers of Sheffield Park exists at some of the following websites and for the specified ranges of years:

To find the names of the neighboring 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.

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

Web sites
Contributor: add any relevant sites that aren’t mentioned above.