Leeds St Peter, Yorkshire Genealogy

England Yorkshire  Yorkshire Parishes, K-R  West Riding  Leeds St Peter

Here is a Complete List of Leeds' chapels, district churches and chapelries for researchers.

Parish History
Leeds, St Peter is an ancient parish from ancient origins (about the 10th century).

"LEEDS (St. Peter), a parish, and liberty, in the W. riding of York, comprising the market-town and borough of Leeds, which has a separate jurisdiction, but is locally in the wapentake of Skyrack; and containing 152,054 inhabitants, of whom 88,741 are in the town, 24 miles (S. W. by W.) from York, and 194 (N. N. W.) from London.There are also places of worship for Baptists, the Society of Friends, Independents, Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists, Methodists of the New Connexion, members of the Scottish Church, Unitarians, and Roman Catholics

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.

This ancient parish (AP) was created before 1813. Church of England records began in 1603. Online Records

Leeds St Peter Cathedral (parish) registers and those registers of all of its smaller chapelries lying within its boundary have been mostly transcribed and are displayed online at the following web sites and ranges of years:

The ancient parish of Wigan All Saints has numerous additional chapelries including Abram subdividing its boundaries, which see.

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