Sheffield, Yorkshire Genealogy

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Parish History
Sheffield St Peter

The living is a vicarage, valued in the king's books at £12. 15. 2½.; net income, £500; patrons, P. Gell and A. Lawson, Esqrs. The tithes were commuted for land and annual payments in 1791. The vicarage-house is at the corner of St. James' street, and the glebe-land in its vicinity is covered with buildings. Three stipendiary clergymen, with an income of £400 per annum each, are appointed to assist the vicar, by a body called the "Twelve Capital Burgesses:" this body was incorporated by charter of Queen Mary, and holds certain lands and estates in trust, for the payment of the assistant ministers, the repairs of the church, and the relief of the needy poor. The church was erected in the reign of Henry I., and is a spacious cruciform structure, with a central tower and spire; but the edifice has been so altered by repairs, that, with the exception of part of the tower and spire, and a few small portions of the interior, very little of its original character can be distinguished. The chancel contains the first production from the chisel of Chantrey, a mural tablet with a bust of the Rev. James Wilkinson, late vicar, canopied with drapery, in Carrara marble, erected at the public expense. Many illustrious persons have been interred in the church, including Mary, Countess of Northumberland; Elizabeth, Countess of Lennox, mother of the unfortunate Lady Arabella Stuart; Lady Elizabeth Butler; four earls of Shrewsbury; and Peter Roflet, French secretary of Mary, Queen of Scots.

Sheffield St Peter - 1560

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

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

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

Sheffield St Matthias Carver-Street - 1877

Sheffield St. Philip Church - 1827

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

Sheffield St. John, Park-Hill - 1837

Sheffield St Stephen - 1858

Five church districts have been formed in Sheffield under the act 6th and 7th Victoria, cap. 37, namely:

Eldon St Jude - 1846

Holliscroft - 1852

Dyers-Hill - 1865

Olerton - 1858

Brightside All Saint - 1869

Brightside St Thomas - 1846

Pitsmoor - 1846

Wicker - 1847

Gleadless - 1839

Grimesthorpe - 1854

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

Neepsend - 1867

Carbrook -1874

Fulwood - 1838

Crookes - 1840

Ecclesall-Bierlow - 1784

Attercliffe - 1694

Darnall - 1844

Heeley - 1848

Walkley - 1869

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

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.