Netherthong, Yorkshire Genealogy

England Yorkshire  Yorkshire Parishes K-R West Riding of Yorkshire  Netherthong

Parish History
Netherthong is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1831 from chapelry in Almondbury Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Thong Bridge and Greave.

Wesleyan Methodist is the only identified non-Church of England denomination in Netherthong.

Netherthong, '''eccl. dist. and township (ry. sta. Thongs Bridge), Almondbury par'''., West-Riding Yorkshire, 4½ miles S. of Huddersfield From: Bartholomew

THONG (Nether), a township and a chapelry in Almondbury parish, W. R. Yorkshire. Pop., 1,097. Houses, 223. The chapelry includes part of Honley township. Pop. in 1861, 1,640. A workhouse, of Huddersfield district, was opened here in 1862, and had 200 inmates in 1868.

THONG, NETHER, a township, in the parish of Almondbury, union of Huddersfield, Upper division of the wapentake of Agbrigg, W. riding of York, 5¼ miles (S. by W.) from Huddersfield; containing 1156 inhabitants.

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.

Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, nonconformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection.

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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain