Queen's Head, Yorkshire Genealogy

England Yorkshire Yorkshire Parishes K-R  East Riding of Yorkshire  Queen's Head

Parish History
QUEENSHEAD, an ecclesiastical parish, partly in the parish and union of Bradford, but chiefly in the parish and union of Halifax, wapentake of Morley,W. riding of York, 3½ miles (N. by E.) from Halifax, on the road to Bradford. Here are places of worship for Independents, General Baptists, Wesleyans, and the New Connexion of Methodists.

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
parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

For a full list of all those chapels surrounding **Chapelry** and comprising the whole ancient parish of Queen's Head to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the Queen's Head page.

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.

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