Greetland, Yorkshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
ELLAND-CUM-GREETLAND, a township and chapelry, in the parish and union of Halifax, wapentake of Morley, W. riding of York, 3¼ miles (S. S. E.) from Halifax. The village is situated on the south side of the vale of Calder river, with the hamlet of Greetland. There are places of worship for Independents and Wesleyans.

Civil Registration
Records from the North Yorkshire Registration District Calderdale registration district held at the Calderdale Registration District Offices.

Marriages include:


 * Church of England marriages.
 * Civil Marriages at register offices, or non-conformist churches where a registrar was required to be present at the ceremony.
 * Authorised Person marriages. These cover the non-conformist places of worship which applied to keep their own registers as a result of the Marriage Act, 1898 (bringing them into line with Jewish and Quaker marriages which had this status since 1837). In such cases an 'Authorised Person' (usually the minister or priest) recorded the ceremony instead of the registrar. Earlier weddings in these places would be included with civil marriage registers.

A secondary index of 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 however this secondary index may omit the event and may not contain the detail of the Yorkshire BMD index

Records for Calderdale which includes the Greater Halifax region, may be obtained from the following office:

Calderdale Registration District The Register Office Spring Hall Huddersfield Road Halifax HX3 0AQ United Kingdom Tel: 01422 288080 or 01422 284472 Email: register.office@calderdale.gov.uk

Online Records
Online data content from chapelry registers of Greetland exists at some of the following websites and for the specified ranges of years:

For a full list of all those chapels surrounding Warrington-Padgate Christ Church and comprising the whole ancient parish of Halifax to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the HALIFAX PARISH  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.

Poor Law Unions
Northallerton Poor Law Union, Yorkshire

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