Hepworth, Yorkshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
"HEPWORTH, a village, a township, and a chapelry in Kirkburton parish, W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands on a declivity, under the backbone uplands of England, 2 miles SE of Holmfirth r. station, and 7 S by E of Huddersfield; and has a post office under Huddersfield. The township includes also the hamlets of Barnside, Foster Place, Meal-Hill, Jacksons-Bridge, and Law. Acres. 3,370. Real property, £4, 398; of which £500 are in mines, £30 in quarries, and £568 in iron works. Pop., 1,530. Houses, 276. The manor belongs to S. W. L. Fox, Esq. Iron works were established in 1858; and ironstone and coal are worked. The chapelry was constituted [1863]. Pop. in 1865, about 3, 000. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Patron, the Vicar of Kirkburton. The church was built in 1863; is in the decorated English style; and consists of nave, chancel, and transepts, with vestry and bell turret. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists, [and] an endowed school..."  

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. The chapelry (of Hepworth) was created and a building constructed by the year 1863.

Church records
Online data content from chapelry registers of Kirkburton exists at some of the following websites and for the specified ranges of years:

For a full list of all those chapels surrounding Heepworth and comprising the whole ancient parish of Kirkburton to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the Kirkburton parish page.

To find the names of the neighboring 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.

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

Websites
Contributor: add any relevant sites that aren’t mentioned above.