Dewsbury, Yorkshire Genealogy

England &gt; Yorkshire &gt; West Riding &gt; Dewsbury

Neighboring Parishes
The following is a list of the parishes and chapelries neighboring to Dewsbury, with the earliest date of their surviving records.


 * Alverthorpe (1825)
 * Batley (1559)
 * Birstall (1558)
 * East Ardsley (1654)
 * Heckmondwike (1831)
 * Horbury (1598)
 * Mirfield (1559)
 * Thornhill (1580)
 * Wakefield (1613)
 * West Ardsley (1652)

Parish Records
Dewsbury is an 'ancient' parish (created before 1813). Church of England records began in 1538, and those for Dewsbury All Saints survive from that date. Other pre-1837 Church of England (Anglican) churches in Dewsbury parish include:


 * the chapelry of Hartshead (with records from 1600)
 * the chapelry of Ossett (from 1813)
 * the chapelry of Hanging-Heaton (from 1826)
 * the chapelry of Dewsbury-Moor (from 1827)
 * St. Peter's Earls-Heaton (from 1827)
 * St. John's Dewsbury (from 1830)

The original registers are deposited at the West Yorkshire Archives in Wakefield.

The copies made by the minister (ordered by an Act of 1598) and sent each year to the Bishop of the diocese (known as parish register transcripts or Bishop's transcripts) survive from 1600 and are deposited at the Borthwick Institute of Historical Research in the city of York.

The Family History Library in Salt Lake City has both parish registers and bishop's transcripts on microfilm, which are listed in the Family History Library Catalog.