Leeds St Peter, Yorkshire Genealogy

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

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.

The parish comprises by computation 21,760 acres. Within the limits of the parish are the chapelries [with church registers] of Armley, Beeston, Bramley, Farnley, Chapel-Allerton, Headingley with Burley, Holbeck, Wortley, and Hunslet; also the township of Potter-Newton, and part of the townships of Seacroft and Temple-Newsom.

The Parochial [mother or ancient] church, dedicated to St. Peter, was supposed to have been built on the site of a more ancient structure, in the reign of Edward III., and enlarged in the reigns of Henry VII. and VIII., and was entirely rebuilt by subscription in 1838-40.

The other churches all residing within the parish boundary include the following ones as of 1848:


 * Leeds St. John the Evangelist - 1634
 * Leeds Holy Trinity - 1721
 * Leeds St. Paul - 1793
 * Leeds St. James - formerly a place of worship belonging to the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion
 * Leeds Quarry Hill, St. Mary - 1824
 * Leeds Christ-Church
 * Leeds St Mark Woodhouse - 1825
 * Leeds St George Mount Pleasant - 1837


 * Leeds St. Luke Northstreet - 1841
 * Leeds St. Saviour - 1845
 * Leeds St. Andrew - 1845
 * Leeds St. Philip - 1847
 * Leeds St. Matthew's Little London - 1854

Other [district] Church of England chapels situated within the boundary of Leeds St Peter (which also search their church registers of baptisms, etc.) included --


 * 1) Armley
 * 2) Beeston
 * 3) Bramley
 * 4) Chapel-Allerton
 * 5) Farnley
 * 6) Hunslet
 * 7) Headingley
 * 8) Holbeck
 * 9) Kirkstall
 * 10) Wortley

There are also places of worship for Baptists, the Society of Friends, Independents, Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists, Methodists of the New Connection, members of the '''Scottish Church, Unitarians, and Roman Catholics. '''

A more complete list for all churches and chapels up to about 1900 may be found here: Complete List of Leeds' chapels, district churches and chapelries

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

Cemetery Records
Here are some cemetery records which have been indexed, and published online:


 * Becket Street Cemetery - 1845-1987 at Ancestry - 187,000+ entries
 * Leeds Burials - at FindMyPast - 1895-1921 - 10,000 entries
 * Farsley (Leeds), Bagley Lane Burial Ground, Leeds West Yorkshire 1775 to 1892 at The National Archives.gov.uk (partial)
 * Contact: the Administration Office at Lawnswood. Telephone 0113 395 7426 or by e-mail at parks@leeds.gov.uk with;

•the name of the cemetery or crematorium

•the persons name, age and date of death

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. Here are two Internet sites with birth, marriage and death indexes.


 * 1) FreeBMD.
 * 2) YorkshireBMD

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