Sheffield, Yorkshire Genealogy

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Parish History
SHEFFIELD (St. Peter), a borough and parish, and the head of a union, partly in the N., but chiefly in the S., division of the wapentake of Strafforth and Tickhill, W. riding of York; containing 111,091 inhabitants, of whom 68,186 are in the township of Sheffield, 55 miles (S. W. by S.) fromYork.and 163 (N. N. W.) from London. This place, which is of great antiquity, derived its name, originally Sheaffield, from its situation on the Sheaf, near the confluence of that river with the Don. During the heptarchy, it formed part of the large manor of Hallam, which, though subsequently dismembered, and deprived of its jurisdiction, gave name to a still more extensive territory called Hallamshire, of which the limits are not accurately defined, but of which the district now forming the parish of Sheffield was the principal portion.From: 'Shearsby - Shefford, Great', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 58-66. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51267 Date accessed: 01 September 2011.

Sheffield St Peter is an ancient parish, erected in the reign of Henry I.

A Complete List of Sheffield Parish and Chapels
Sheffield had the following parish and chapels attached to it, all lying within its jurisdition and boundaries as of 1878:

Sheffield St. George's Church -&amp;nbsp;1824

Sheffield St. James Chapel - 1788 (FHL has from 1828 to 1830 only)

Sheffield St. John, Park-Hill - 1837Sheffield St Matthias Carver-Street - 1877

Sheffield St. Mary's Church, Brammall-lane - 1830

Sheffield St Peter - 1560

Sheffield St. Paul's Chapel - 1720 (FHL has from 1793 to 1825 only)

Sheffield St. Philip Church - 1827

Sheffield St Stephen - 1858

The following district churches and chapels were built within Sheffield parish and they include the following:

Attercliffe - 1694

Brightside All Saint - 1869

Brightside St Thomas - 1846

Carbrook -1874

Crookes - 1840

Darnall - 1844

Dyers-Hill - 1865

Ecclesall-Bierlow - 1784

Eldon St Jude - 1846

Fulwood - 1838

Gleadless - 1839

Grimesthorpe - 1854

Heeley - 1848

Highfield - 1877

Holliscroft - 1852

Lydgate - 1788 - lies in West Yorkshire but partly in Rochdale Parish, Lancashire.

Neepsend - 1867

Olerton - 1858

Pitsmoor - 1846

Wicker - 1847

Walkley - 1869

In the town are eleven places of worship for various denominations of Methodists, six for Independents, and one each for Baptists, Quakers, 9 Roman Catholics - 1781

Parish Records
This ancient parish was created before 1813. Church of England records began in 1560 for Sheffield, Cathedral Church of St. Peter and St. Paul.