Bradford, Yorkshire Genealogy

England Yorkshire  Yorkshire Parishes, A-I  West Riding of Yorkshire  Bradford

Guide to Bradford St Peter, Yorkshire family history and genealogy. Parish registers (baptism, christening, marriage, and burial records), civil registration (birth, marriage, and death records), census records, history, wills, cemetery, online transcriptions and indexes, an interactive map and websites.

Here is a comprehensive List of Churches and Chapels within Bradford St Peter Parish Boundary.

Parish History
BRADFORD (St. Peter), a borough, market-town, and parish [with several chapelries and ancient chapels attached to it] and the head of a union, in the wapentake of Morley, West Riding, Yorkshire, comprising the townships of Allerton, North Bierley, Bowling, Bradford, Clayton, Eccleshill, Heaton, Manningham, Shipley, and Wilsden, and the chapelries of Haworth, Horton, and Thornton. The churches dedicated to St. James and St. John are listed under Horton, St. Jude's church is listed under the township of Manningham. There are other churches that have been erected at Bradford Christ Church, Bradford All Saints Church, Bradford holy trinity, Bradford St. Andrews, Bradford St. Clement's, Bradford, St John, Bradford, St. Jude, Bradford St. Michael, Bradford St. Phillip's Church, Bradford St Thomas, Bradford Moor St. Augustine's Church, Bandfoot St. Matthew's, Bierley, Bierly St. John the Evangelist, Bowling, Bowling St. John, Buttershaw, Buttershaw St Paul, Clayton, Clayton St John the Baptist, Cullingworth, Daisy-Hill, Denholme-Gate, Denholme St Paul's, Eccleshill, Fairweather Green St. Saviour's, Great Horton St. John the Evangelist, Greengates St. John the Evangelist, Haworth, Haworth St. Michael and all All Angels, Horton, Horton All Saints, Horton St. James, Laister-Dyke, Little Horton All Saints, Low Moor St. Mark's, New Leeds, Manningham, Manningham St. Jude, Manningham St. Luke, Manningham St. Mary Magdalene, Minninghame St. Paul's, Oxenhope, Oxenhope St. Mary the Virgin, Shearbridge St Columba's, Shipley, Shipley St. Paul's, Stanbury, Stanbury St. Gabriel's, Thorpe Edge St. John the Divine, Thornton, Thorton St. Jame's, West Bowling St. Stephen's,  Wibsey, Wibsey St. Paul's.

Other places of worship include: Baptists, Quakers/Society of Friends, Independents, Primitive Methodists, Wesleyan Methodist, Unitarians, and Roman Catholics.

Archives
The Bradford Archive records are a unique collection of books/documents which includes references to the working and administration of the Parish over the last 500 years and also the running of the Bradfield Workhouse/Poor House based in High Bradfield from 1759 to 1847. More than 40,000 records are now available online at this link.

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.

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

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.

This ancient parish (AP) was created before 1813. Church of England records began in 1599.

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