Leeds St Peter, Yorkshire Genealogy

England Yorkshire  Yorkshire Parishes, K-R  West Riding  Leeds St Peter

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).

"Within the limits of the parish are the chapelries (churches) 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 church dedicated to St. John the Evangelist was built in 1634, The church dedicated to the Holy Trinity was erected in 1721. St. Paul was erected in 1793. The church dedicated to St. James.Leeds. The church on Quarry Hill, dedicated to St. Mary, was erected in 1824, Christ Church, in Meadow-lane, was erected in the same year.  The church dedicated to St. Mark', in the populous suburb of Woodhouse, was erected in 1825,  The church at Mount Pleasant dedicated to St. george, was erected in '1837. The church dedicated to St. Luke, in Northstreet, was erected in 1841, '''St. Saviour's church was completed in 1845, St. Andrew's church, was completed in 1845. Other churches are situated at Armley, Beeston, Bramley, Chapel-Allerton, Famley, Hunslet, Headingley, Holbeck, Kirkstall, and Wortley. St. Philip's, and St. Matthew's Little London'''. A church for the former district or ecclesiastical parish was completed in 1847, Baptists, the Society of Friends, Independents, Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists, Methodists of the New Connexion, members of the Scottish Church, Unitarians, and Roman Catholics.

From: Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 46-55. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51100 Date accessed: 16 August 2011.

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.

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Census records
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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

Web sites
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