Dewsbury, Yorkshire Genealogy

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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.

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

The copies made by the minister and sent each year (from 1598) to the Bishop of the diocese (known as Bishop's Transcripts) survive from