Leeds St Peter, Yorkshire, England Genealogy
Guide to Leeds St Peter, Yorkshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
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| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| County | Yorkshire |
| Hundred | Leeds; Leeds Borough |
| Poor Law Union | Leeds Guardians |
| Registration District | Hunslet; Leeds |
| Records Begin | |
| Parish registers | 1572 |
| Bishop's Transcripts | 1631 |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Pontefract |
| Diocese | Pre-1836 - York; Post-1835 - Ripon |
| Province | York |
| Probate Court | Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York |
| Archive | |
| Yorkshire Record Office | |
Parish History[edit | edit source]
Leeds, St Peter is an ancient parish from ancient origins (about the 10th century).
LEEDS (St. Peter), a parish, and liberty, in the W. riding of York, comprising the market-town and borough of Leeds, which has a separate jurisdiction, but is locally in the wapentake of Skyrack; and containing 152,054 inhabitants, of whom 88,741 are in the town, 24 miles (S. W. by W.) from York, and 194 (N. N. W.) from London.
The parish comprises by computation 21,760 acres. Within the limits of the parish are the chapelries [with church registers] 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 Parochial [mother or ancient] church, dedicated to St. Peter, was supposed to have been built on the site of a more ancient structure, in the reign of Edward III., and enlarged in the reigns of Henry VII. and VIII., and was entirely rebuilt by subscription in 1838-40.
There are also places of worship for Baptists, the Society of Friends, Independents, Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists, Methodists of the New Connection, members of the Scottish Church, Unitarians, and Roman Catholics. [1]
Places[edit | edit source]
Chapelries[edit | edit source]
Chapelry is a church or churches built in a large ecclesiastical parish to help the members attend worship services closer to their homes.
The parish of Leeds St. Peter consists of the following chapelries:
- Armley St Bartholomew
- Beeston
- Bramley
- Burley
- Burmantofts St Stephen
- Buslingthorpe St Michael
- Chapel Allerton
- Farnley
- Headingley
- Holbeck
- Holbeck St Barnabas
- Holbeck St John
- Holbeck St Luke
- Horsforth St James
- Hunslet
- Hunslet St Jude
- Kirkstall
- Leeds All Saints, York Rd
- Leeds All Souls Blackman Lane
- Leeds Christ Church, Meadow Lane
- Leeds Holy Trinity
- Leeds St Andrew Cavendish
- Leeds St Barnabas, Brewery Field
- Leeds St Clement
- Leeds St Hilda
- Leeds St James
- Leeds St John the Evangelist
- Leeds St Luke, North Street
- Leeds St Mary, Quarry Hill
- Leeds St Matthew, Camp Rd
- Leeds St Paul
- Leeds St Peter
- Leeds St Philip
- Leeds St Saviour
- Leeds St Thomas
- Little London, St Matthews
- Mount Pleasant, St George
- New Wortley
- Seacroft
- Sheepscar, St Clement
- Wortley-de-Leeds
- Woodhouse St Mark
- Woodside
Resources[edit | edit source]
Find Neighboring Parishes[edit | edit source]
Use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map
- Type the name of the parish in the search bar
- Click on the location pin on the map
- Choose Options from the pop up box
- Click "List Contiguous Parishes" to find the neighboring parishes
Cemeteries[edit | edit source]
- 1600-1950 Monumental Inscriptions of St. Peter Parish Church, Leeds, Yorkshire, England, about 1600-1950(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
- 1700-1950 Monumental Inscriptions, New Wortley Cemetery, Yorkshire,england, about 1700-1950, Leeds(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
- 1835-1837 Deaths and Burials, 1835-1837, Leeds General Cemetery (Yorkshire)(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
- 1835-1837 Deaths and Burials, 1835-1837, Leeds General Cemetery (Yorkshire)(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
- 1845-1992 Cemetery Indexes of the Beckett Street Cemetery, Leeds(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
- 1845-1992 Cemetery Registers of the Beckett Street Cemetery, Leeds(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
- 1845-1992 Index to Burial Registers of Beckett Street Cemetery, 1845-1992, Leeds(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
- 1845-1997 Transcript of the Memorial Inscriptions of Beckett Street Cemetery, 1845-1997, Leeds(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
- 1860-1999 Cemetery Registers of Farnley Cemetery, Leeds(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
- 1863-2000 Cemetery Registers of New Wortley Cemetery, Leeds(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
- 1905-1992 Indexes to Cremations of Lawnswood Crematorium, Leeds(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
- 1908-1987 Cemetery Registers of Harehills Cemetery, Leeds(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
- 1932-1991 Cemetery Registers of Cottingley Hall Cemetery, Leeds(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
Church Records[edit | edit source]
The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor.
NonConformist Records refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.
Church of England[edit | edit source]
Due to the increasing access of online records:
- Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
- Dates in the following table are approximate
Hover over the collection's title for more information
| Leeds St Peter Online Parish Records | ||||||
| FamilySearch Collections-Yorkshire | ||||||
| FamilySearch Parish Registers-Yorkshire | ||||||
| Bishop's Transcripts - FamilySearch Catalog | ||||||
| FreeREG | ||||||
| Findmypast-Yorkshire ($) | ||||||
| Findmypast Banns-Yorkshire ($) | ||||||
| Ancestry Church of England (Early)-West Riding ($) | ||||||
| Ancestry Church of England (Late)-West Riding ($) | ||||||
| Ancestry-England & Wales, Birth, Christening, Marriage and Death Indexes ($) | 1500s-1900s |
1500s-1900s |
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| Databases with Known Incomplete Parish Coverage | ||||||
| Boyd's Marriage Indexes-FMP (Free) | ||||||
| National Burial Index-FMP (Free) | ||||||
Other Websites
These databases have incomplete parish coverage.
- Joiner Marriage Index - West Riding of Yorkshire ($)
- The Genealogist Parish Registers - Yorkshire ($)
- 1611-1861 Archdeaconry of Richmond, England, Church of England Marriage Bonds, 1611-1861 at Ancestry – index & images ($)
- UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
- Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records
Nonconformist Records[edit | edit source]
"Nonconformist" is a term referring to religious denominations other than an established or state church. In England, the state church is the Church of England.
- 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at Findmypast - index & images ($); coverage may vary
Cemetery Records
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Here are some cemetery records which have been indexed, and published online:
- Becket Street Cemetery - 1845-1987 at Ancestry - 187,000+ entries
- Leeds Burials - at Findmypast - 1895-1921 - 10,000 entries
- Farsley (Leeds), Bagley Lane Burial Ground, Leeds West Yorkshire 1775 to 1892 at The National Archives.gov.uk (partial)
- Contact: the Administration Office at Lawnswood. Telephone 0113 395 7426 or by e-mail at parks@leeds.gov.uk with:
- the name of the cemetery or crematorium
- the persons name, age and date of death
- the name of the cemetery or crematorium
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
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. Here are two Internet sites with birth, marriage and death indexes.
Census Records[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a FamilySearch Center or at the FamilySearch Library.
Probate Records[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Samuel A. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of England(1848), pp. 46-55. [modified] Date accessed: 21 October 2013.