Halifax St Augustine, Yorkshire Genealogy

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

Chapel History
Halifax St Augustine was created a chapelry by about 1872 and was eventually annexed to, in more modern years to Mount Pelllon St Paul's. It lay within the boundary of Halifax St John the Baptist ancient parish.

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day.
 * See England Civil Registration for online resources and information.

Online Records
Online data content from chapelry registers of Halifax All Souls (Northowram) exists at some of the following websites and for the specified ranges of years:

For a full list of all those chapels surrounding Halifax St Augustine comprising the whole ancient parish of Halifax St John the Baptist to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the HALIFAX ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST page.

To find the names of the neighbouring parishes, use &lt;a href="http://maps.familysearch.org/"&gt;England Jurisdictions 1851&lt;/a&gt;. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes. This ancient &lt;a href="England Church Records"&gt;parish&lt;/a&gt; (AP) was created before 1813. Church of England records began in date.

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at Findmypast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

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