Manningham St Luke, Yorkshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
One night in 1871 Manningham Mill was totally destroyed by fire. Lister boldly decided to build a new mill on the site of the old one. However, this one would be even bigger and better than before. At its peak, eleven thousand people were employed there; it used 50,000 tons of coal per year and was the largest of its type in Europe.

Now there were so many people in Manningham that St Paul's church was bursting at the seams, despite being enlarged twice before 1867. Yet again, John Hollings dipped into his wallet and called on the services of Thomas Healey's son who designed the new church. It was built on land near Lister's mill and dedicated to St. Luke in 1881. Meanwhile, the congregation of St Jude's helped pay for the building of a church near White Abbey Road, which was dedicated to St Mary Magdalene in 1878.

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.

FamilySearch Records

 * Parish registers for St. Luke's, Manningham, 1870-1912 Microfiche copy of original at the West Yorkshire Archive Service, Bradford, Yorkshire.

St. Luke's chapel, in Manningham, is a chapelry in Bradford parish

Online Records
Online data content from chapelry registers of Manningham St Lukesexists 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.

Census records

 * Census returns for Manningham, 1841-1891 is found in FamilySearch and may includes records for St Lukes.

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