Shipley cum Heaton, Yorkshire Genealogy

England Yorkshire Yorkshire Parishes, S-YWest Riding of Yorkshire Shipley cum Heaton

Parish History
Shipley cum Heaton is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1828 from Bradford [St Peter] Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Heaton, Heaton Royds, Shipley Fields, Moorhead, Saltaire, and Moor Head. Church of England denominations identified in Shipley cum Heaton include: Baptist, General Baptist, Methodist, Particular Baptist, Primitive Methodist, Wesleyan Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist Reform.

SHIPLEY, with Heaton, a district parish, in the parish and union of Bradford, wapentake of Morley,W. riding of York, 3¼ miles (N. N. W.) from Bradford; containing 4043 inhabitants. There are places of worship for Baptists, Primitive Methodists, and Wesleyans.

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.

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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
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